It could be time for a Magic Keyboard Professional and Apple Pencil Professional

Tomorrow on the ‘Let free’ occasion, Apple is anticipated to debut next-generation iPad Professional and iPad Air fashions alongside some model new iPad equipment.

The iPad Professional appears set to be the focus, with a model new OLED show, thinner physique, and really probably the launch of Apple’s M4 chip. New variations of the Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil are additionally anticipated, each of which can seemingly be unique to the iPad Professional.

Proof discovered on Apple’s Japanese website suggests the brand new Pencil could also be dubbed the Apple Pencil Professional. Which bought me considering: including the Professional identify to the Magic Keyboard makes numerous sense too, particularly since solely the brand new iPad Professional will assist it.

Right here’s why it might be simply the fitting time for a Magic Keyboard Professional and Apple Pencil Professional.

Combating off iPad Air competitors

For the previous few years, Apple has been inching the iPad Air lineup ever nearer to the iPad Professional. The Air gained assist for the prevailing Magic Keyboard. It was outfitted with an M-class chip. Reporting factors to a new 12.9-inch Air debuting tomorrow, giving the Air the form of display screen actual property that was previously unique to the iPad Professional.

The iPad Air’s continuous development has been accompanied by a slowdown in iPad Professional developments. Among the greatest differentiators between the 2 merchandise as we speak are the 12.9-inch mannequin’s mini-LED show, which arrived in 2021 and by no means made its solution to the smaller Professional, and the presence of Face ID on the Professional, which dates all the way in which again to 2018. In any other case, there’s not lots that units the iPad Professional aside. Not proper now, anyhow.

For this reason I imagine it’s the proper time for Apple to introduce Professional-exclusive equipment like a Magic Keyboard Professional and Apple Pencil Professional.

‘Professional’ all of the issues

The 2024 iPad Professional will usher in a brand new period for the Professional lineup, bringing maybe probably the most thrilling improve for the reason that 2018 mannequin. It is sensible, then, that Apple would seize this second so as to add the Professional moniker to its new equipment.

Launching a Magic Keyboard Professional and Apple Pencil Professional would offer a brand new stage of differentiation for the iPad Professional in comparison with the Air. But additionally, importantly, they’d make the accent lineup method simpler to know for the common client. Protecting monitor of the nuances between the Apple Pencil (1st gen), Apple Pencil (USB-C), and Apple Pencil (2nd gen) is one thing even I battle with.

Slap a ‘Professional’ identify on the accent, although? All of the sudden the complicated will get simplified. “You’d like an iPad Professional? Nice, its accent choices embrace a Pencil Professional and Magic Keyboard Professional.”

Unifying the brand new equipment beneath the Professional identify can be a win for consumers and make the iPad Professional a stronger contender in opposition to its little siblings just like the iPad Air.

The one draw back is technically an upside for Apple: ‘Professional’ equipment could advantage increased value factors. As if $349 for a 12.9-inch Magic Keyboard wasn’t already sufficient.