Competing rumor says no folding iPad in 2024

A new rumor by Mark Gurman contradicts earlier reports of a folding iPad coming in 2024 while doubling down on a "light year" for iPads in 2023.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo uses supply-chain data to predict possible release windows for Apple products with a generally high level of accuracy. A report on Monday suggested Apple would hold off on iPad updates until 2024, with a new iPad mini 7 and foldable iPad arriving in that year.

Mark Gurman from Bloomberg has released his own information, contradicting Kuo slightly. While Gurman insists that 2023 will be a light year for iPads, 2024 won't have a foldable iPad.

He suggests that 2024 will introduce the long-rumored OLED iPad Pros alongside spec bumps for the base iPad and iPad mini. His sources haven't mentioned anything about a foldable iPad in 2024.

Gurman's information is understood to be sourced directly from contacts within Apple and the supply chain. His information tends to align with Kuo, with rare exceptions like this one.

Years of speculation, patents, and other hints suggest Apple is indeed working on a folding device. It isn't clear if such a product will ever be released by Apple, as Samsung's folding products have proven to be a high-end fad that serves a very small market.

15 Comments

DAalseth 3035 comments · 6 Years

About 1 year ago

Re: Folding iPad.
His crystal ball isn’t any clearer than Kuo’s. He just zagged when Kuo zigged. One of them are bound to be right.

racerhomie3 1264 comments · 7 Years

I pray to God Apple never releases a trash product like foldables to the public.

lkrupp 10521 comments · 19 Years

Here’s @lkrupp’s infallible prediction: No foldable anything from Apple anytime soon, if ever.

DAalseth said:

Re: Folding iPad.
His crystal ball isn’t any clearer than Kuo’s. He just zagged when Kuo zigged. One of them are bound to be right.

Like the old Three Stooges bit. Moe asks Curly what time it is. Curly raises his sleeve and his arm has three watches on it. Moe asks Curly how he can tell the time. Curly says one watch is ten minutes slow, one watch is 5 minutes fast, and the other watch stopped at 12 o’clock. Frustrated, Moe says well, what time is it? Curly pulls out a pocket watch, looks at it, and says 3:15. Moe pokes Curly in the eyes and conks him on his head. Woo, woo, woo.

BigGuyinSF 11 comments · 5 Years

Take anything Gurman says with a HUGE grain of salt. He’s wrong a LOT. He’ll just conveniently “update” his prediction moments before something is released to keep his prediction record high. Such useless information. I wish the Apple blogs would just ignore him so he goes away.