The iPad could get a hardier aluminum Magic Keyboard

Apple will launch a stronger, extra premium-feeling iPad Magic Keyboard alongside the iPad Professional subsequent 12 months, in response to Mark Gurman’s newest Energy On publication for Bloomberg. The keyboard, he studies, will use an aluminum high case whereas holding the comfortable materials discovered on the underside of the keyboard now. It is going to additionally nonetheless have just one USB-C port, he writes.

Gurman notes that the present keyboard is liable to bending and tearing over time, so hopefully an aluminum high case and the bigger trackpad he wrote about final week will enhance issues, although one wonders about closing it over the iPad’s display screen. The up to date iPad Professional design isn’t coming till subsequent 12 months, so how Apple handles that’s for future us to study.

A hardier Magic Keyboard with a much bigger trackpad will go an extended method to making the iPad really feel extra like a laptop computer, and I feel that’s most likely an excellent factor. That’s if Apple can really thread the needle of constructing applicable software program and {hardware} adjustments whereas nonetheless holding the iPad true to itself, which up to now has appeared like an understandably large problem. It doesn’t look like a shiny new keyboard could make for a greater iPad by itself, although. No less than, it hasn’t up to now.