“Apple investors have been hearing rumors about a new iPad Pro that features the company’s new TrueDepth camera system and Face ID for a few months now,” Evan Niu writes for The Motley Fool.
“That would be an expected move by the Mac maker, as it likes to implement its newest technologies across its product lineup whenever possible, and the iPad Pro is an obvious candidate to be next in line for those features,” Niu writes. “The new iPad Pro release could be just around the quarter.”
Rosenblatt analyst Jun Zhang “believes that Apple is preparing to launch a new iPad Pro that features a slimmer bezel and ditches the home button, much like iPhone X. The analyst goes as far as to predict that the new model will be released during the June quarter, meaning it could just be a couple months away, instead of a fall launch,” Niu writes. “It’s worth remembering that Apple is investing heavily in the production capacity of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), including in the form of a $390 million prepayment to supplier Finisar. VCSELs are the crucial components that enable 3D sensing, and Finisar is using those prepayments to help fund capacity expansion at its manufacturing facilities in Sherman, Texas… Implementing VCSELs in more products would help Finisar’s capacity utilization while giving Apple more alternatives to apply its prepayments.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bring it on! After iPhone X, anything with a Home button is just irritating in the most anachronistic way.
SEE ALSO:
Analyst: Apple to ship revamped iPad Pro with TrueDepth Camera and Face ID, no Home button in Q2 – March 7, 2018
Finisar deal helps Apple block Android rivals’ path to AR features – December 14, 2017
Apple makes Trump-friendly investment in Finisar – December 13, 2017
Apple is backing up iPhone X’s Face ID and AirPods with American jobs – December 13, 2017
How Apple and Finisar are transforming the future of Sherman, Texas – December 13, 2017
Apple awards $390 million to VCSEL-maker Finisar; award will create 500 high-skill jobs at Sherman, Texas facility – December 13, 2017
Next-gen iPad Pro models likely to feature extremely powerful octa-core Apple A11X Bionic – November 15, 2017
Apple’s next-gen iPad Pro slated to get redesign with Face ID capability, next-gen Apple Pencil support – November 8, 2017
Within a few months is NOT imminent.
Correct, if they say December it will likely mean March 2019
But, but MDN, the new iPad Pro will have a notch. Shock horror.
If the notch exists on the iPad Pro that will be sad, the damn things big enough and there should not be a notch. iPads are a waste of money anyway so no matter.
Without the notch people won’t know which side is up and they will stupidly complain that Face ID doesn’t work upside down. People who see the notch 100s of times a day on their X are the ones who care the least about it and rarely if ever mention it (MDN being the lone exception).
Have an iPad Pro and have no desire fora model with Face ID or lacking a home button.
I could use a nice Mac Pro workstation and a new Mac mini.
I agree, bring it on. The TouchID on my iPad Pro 10.5 is indeed irritating! Face ID is simply a wonderful innovation.
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June would make sense, as would be one year after last update to iPad Pro. I would love it to have Face ID and more screen real estate would be useful. For Face ID to work on the IPad Pro it would have to work in any orientation. Mine is most of the time used in landscape with Smart Keyboard. The exception being when I am using for playing music.
It is interesting that the iPad Pro so divides opinion. Some people see it as useless (But I don’t think they take the trouble to learn to use all its capabilities), while others, like myself think it is the most adaptable device ever made (in short, I love it). When I am travelling (much of the year) I run my business exclusively from my iPad Pro. Some things can be easier done on the Mac, while others are easier on the IPP – but I find there is very little it can’t do with the right Apps and a little adaptability.
if they implement face id on ipad, they need software for multiple users. no other way it works