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James Bentley

Apple planning new entry-level iPad for 2024, with a major change in production

Blue iPad (2022) laying screen side down with Apple Pencil.

If you have been searching for a new cheap entry into the iPad world, you may finally get your wish next year as a brand new ‘low-end’ iPad is on the way. As Bloomberg originally reported, this is part of an effort to solve a ‘slump’ in iPad sales, which is related to a lack of new models in the last year. 

This week, a report by Nikkei Asia and attributed to ‘sources briefed on the matter’, reveals that Apple is currently attempting to move new product introduction for this iPad to Vietnam, from China. This is essentially the step in production where a company takes a blueprint and figures out how achievable it is on a grand scale, and if mass manufacturing is possible. 

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