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Apple has canceled its plans to release an updated iPad Air with an OLED display next year due to concerns around quality and costs, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today in an investor note obtained by MacRumors.

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In March, Kuo reported that Apple had an iPad Air with an OLED display in the pipeline for next year. Today, Kuo has revised his prediction, saying that will not be the case since Apple has canceled those plans due to costs and performance not meeting the company's expectations.

Kuo had previously stated that the 11-inch iPad Pro would be receiving a mini-LED display next year, and Kuo today doubled down on that claim by saying it will be the "focus of [the] iPad line in 2022." Currently, only the 12.9-inch iPad Pro includes the newer mini-LED technology. One reason Kuo states that Apple had canceled its OLED iPad Air is that it may have been detrimental to the sales of the forthcoming 11-inch iPad Pro with a mini-LED display.

While Apple plans to stick with an LCD display for the iPad Air, Kuo says the company continues to research and develop newer display technologies for the iPad line. A report last week suggested that Apple and Samsung had abandoned their joint plans to develop an OLED display for a forthcoming updated 10.9-inch iPad Air.

Article Link: Kuo: Apple Cancels Plans to Release iPad Air With OLED Display in 2022, Plans to Stick With LCD Technology
 
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Getting harder and harder for me to be motivated to upgrade ANYTHING Apple this year.

Would have upgraded one of my iPads to something OLED, now.....meh.

I went into the summer expecting to upgrade my 11PM, Mini 5, and even my AW6. Same for my GF with her XS max and AW3, now......we "might" get the 13PM around the holidays, if at all.

News like this doesn't help to motivate me.

From "I have to have the latest and greatest" to "what I have works so well I'll just.....not" in 2 short years.
 
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Analyst speculates Apple will change technologies on a specific timeline. Apple doesn't. Oh, it's because something went wrong! Schedule slippage! DISAPPOINTMENT!

Why not express just a grain of skepticism, MacRumors? We like rumors. That doesn't mean they have real value and are equally credible.
 
I swear everybody was like “apple won’t use OLED in the iPads when they are using mini LED” I have a feeling the supply chain were never going to put OLED in iPad but apple just fed them crap. Would have been nice to see OLED in some of the consumer iPads though… definitely need to replace the existing LCD. Calling it Super Retina Liquid Retina doesn’t make it any better
 
I'm not really surprised, since the Air is more of a budget tablet. OLED isn't even on the iPad Pro models yet, which is where I thought it would first appear. I have the latest Pro and the screen seems perfectly fine to me. Even though my iPhone has an OLED screen, most of the time I don't notice any difference. I suspect *most* users of the Air wouldn't notice either.
 
If they cancel the OLED screen in the next Air 5, maybe they will use the same liquid retina display as the Air 4 but with Pro motion? I would settle for that. Maybe the Pro 11 will also get a spec bump in line (mini led screen perhaps).
 
add some flickering to the screen too why don't cha.
Wouldn't be a win with OLED either. It would probably come with super low PWM (as OLED iPhones have), the risk of burn-in (an OLED classic), oversaturated colors and cheapest possible panel from Sammy, which will would reintroduce popular Jelly scrolling effect (as it happened with cheap Galaxy Tab S5e AMOLED).
A fine addition to Apple's "normal panel behaviour" collection.
 
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If they cancel the OLED screen in the next Air 5, maybe they will use the same liquid retina display as the Air 4 but with Pro motion? I would settle for that. Maybe the Pro 11 will also get a spec bump in line (mini led screen perhaps).
Pro motion will remain as a Pro feature, as the name itself indicates. It’s one more reason to entice customers to get a Pro instead of an Air
 
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