Apple will unencumber a more potent, more premium-feeling iPad Magic Keyboard along the iPad Professional subsequent yr, in line with Mark Gurman’s newest Energy On publication for Bloomberg. The keyboard, he studies, will use an aluminum best case whilst preserving the cushy subject matter discovered at the backside of the keyboard now. It’ll additionally nonetheless have just one USB-C port, he writes.
Gurman notes that the present keyboard is at risk of bending and tearing through the years, so optimistically an aluminum best case and the bigger trackpad he wrote about last week will beef up issues, although one wonders about ultimate it over the iPad’s display screen. The up to date iPad Professional design isn’t coming till subsequent yr, so how Apple handles this is for long run us to be informed.
A hardier Magic Keyboard with a larger trackpad will pass a protracted solution to making the iPad really feel extra like a computer, and I feel that’s most likely a just right factor. This is if Apple can in truth thread the needle of creating suitable instrument and {hardware} adjustments whilst nonetheless preserving the iPad true to itself, which to this point has gave the impression of an understandably large problem. It doesn’t appear to be a sparkly new keyboard can make for a better iPad by itself, although. No less than, it hasn’t so far.