The iPad might 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 accordance with Mark Gurman’s newest Energy On publication for Bloomberg. The keyboard, he experiences, will use an aluminum prime case whereas conserving the mushy materials discovered on the underside of the keyboard now. It should 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 prime case and the bigger trackpad he wrote about final week will enhance issues, although one wonders about closing it over the iPad’s display. The up to date iPad Professional design isn’t coming till subsequent 12 months, so how Apple handles that’s for future us to be taught.

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 a very good factor. That’s if Apple can truly thread the needle of creating acceptable software program and {hardware} modifications whereas nonetheless conserving the iPad true to itself, which to this point has appeared like an understandably huge problem. It doesn’t look like a shiny new keyboard could make for a greater iPad by itself, although. At the very least, it hasn’t to this point.