TECH NEWS – The iPad Mini 7 is rumored to come soon with a new SoC (system on a chip).
The tech company is also working on smaller tablets, as there is demand for those as well. According to an analyst, the iPad Mini 7 could already be in mass production and delivery in late 2023, and the release could arrive in early 2024. Ming-Chi Kuo at On Twitter wrote that the delivery of the stock could be delayed until the beginning or first half of 2024. As an economic crisis is developing in the world (even here, despite pro-state media saying otherwise), it is possible that Apple will wait for the bottom and only then will he launch the new mini tablet on the market, because it would not make sense economically if he released his new product in the middle of the crisis, because due to the constantly high inflation, fewer people could afford it, so many iPad Mini 7 would remain unsold .
The iPad Mini 6 uses the A15 Bionic SoC, and the successor is said to use the 4-nanometer A16 Bionic used in both the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. This has to be coupled with a competitive price, because the company is currently selling the six for less. The new iPad Mini could use the same 8.3-inch IPS LCD display and hopefully have more RAM and possibly more camera sensors on the back.
There are already some foldable phones on the market, but they aren’t cheap. Apple, on the other hand, basically offers its products at a higher price point, so if the company made a similar product, it would not be favorable for customers, and according to Ming-Chi Kuo, even if a foldable iPad could come around to 2025, according to him, it will not replace the iPad Mini product line, because the price difference due to foldability would have a significant impact on annual sales. According to Samsung, Apple will enter the market in 2024 with an iPad and not an iPhone, while according to CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood, if such an iPhone existed, it would cost at least $2,500, otherwise it would hurt sales of the traditional product line. According to Wood, the foldable iPad and iPad Mini will stay next to each other.
So the future of the product line could still be interesting, because marketing the small foldable tablet would not be an easy task.
