Folding iPad will launch next year, top Apple analyst Kuo says

Apple volition dilatory the gait of iPad releases for the remainder of 2023, with an oculus towards releasing a foldable iPad by 2024, noted Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo wrote connected Monday.

"I'm affirmative astir the foldable iPad successful 2024 and expect this caller exemplary volition boost shipments and amended the merchandise mix," Kuo wrote connected Twitter. Kuo's prediction aligns with a report from expert steadfast CCS Insight, which wrote successful Oct. 2022 that the Cupertino institution would motorboat a foldable iPad earlier a foldable iPhone.

Several different manufacturers, including Lenovo and Samsung, marque laptops oregon phones with full-size foldable displays. Apple has truthful acold shied distant from taking vantage of OLED exertion successful the aforesaid way. Rival Samsung has released aggregate foldable phones but Apple has maintained the rectangular signifier of the iPhone since its launch.

"Right present it doesn't marque consciousness for Apple to marque a foldable iPhone. We deliberation they volition shun that inclination and astir apt dip a toed successful the h2o with a foldable iPad," Ben Wood, main of probe astatine CCS Insight told CNBC successful a 2022 interview.

In 2021, Kuo had predicted the merchandise of a foldable iPhone successful 2024, the aforesaid twelvemonth helium present predicts a foldable iPad to motorboat instead.

Kuo expects that a foldable iPad to diagnostic a c fibre kickstand sourced from Chinese shaper Anjie Technology.

A typical for Apple did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Kuo is 1 of the astir prolific and respected Apple analysts. The expert has predicted aggregate details connected the iPhone SE 3, the 2021 MacBook Pro, and connected galore iPad releases which person been substantiated astatine launch. Most recently, Kuo predicted a delayed launch for Apple's highly-anticipated mixed world headset.