"Larger iPad not this year on the market '- NU.nl

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So says the usually reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo at Macrumors .

But getting the iPad Air this year an update. The 9.7-inch iPad would be faster A8 chip get and like the iPhone 5S of the Touch ID fingerprint scanner feature.

is striking that the iPad Mini will not get these innovations according to Kuo, the iPad Mini and iPad Air Apple released this year include some equivalent processor concerned.

Apple would rather put the funds into the development of the iPad Mini with Retina display, have shifted to the development of both the iWatch as a larger iPad now. The sales of the iPad Mini fell compared with the larger iPad against air.

according to Kuo, the new version of iOS that would run on the larger iPad allows for an increase in the number of apps that use the larger screen.

However, the development of software for the Apple iWatch within the priority. Kuo expects the number of iPads sold in the first quarter of this year, 30 million will be lower than last year, when 34 million copies were sold.

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Kuo predicted earlier include the arrival of the iPhone 5S. Moreover, the analyst reported first that would sit in a fingerprint scanner and a gold variant would come.

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