Little by little, but relentlessly, The deadline for Apple to announce the spring event was running shortas we’re a week into May and WWDC 2024 will be held in early June, and then we’ll enter a warm and not-so-fruitful (informatively speaking) summer, which we’ll say goodbye to in September. keynote that will bring us the iPhone 16 and almost certainly also the long-awaited Apple Watch

Apple event that has already been officially announced on its website, and whose personal version already invites some journalists based in the United States, will take place next May 7 at 4:00 p.m. (Peninsula Spanish Time), slightly earlier than usual for presentations in Cupertino, which, with some variations along these lines recently, seems to want to adapt the schedule of its events to better suit other geographical areas, although it means you should get up early and follow it from the Pacific coast of the United States, because it will be seven in the morning in California local time (PT).

And what do we expect from Apple’s presentation in May? There are two ways to answer this question, rumors and what the call image tells us, and it’s wisest to stick with both. So depending on the other, It seems obvious that the Apple Pencil will have a lot of prominence in this event. Which brings us to the fact that the reference device for the Cupertino pointer is the iPad, and that we’ve been hearing rumors about new iPads for months. So white and bottled, even though it might be horchata, all indications are that it is milk.

The most likely and also the most expected is iPad Pro recovery, with quite an interesting novelty. The first and most likely (almost hand to fire) is that the company’s latest silicon, M3, will make its way into Apple’s high-end tablets. Recall that the chip was introduced in October last year, so it would not make sense to introduce new iPad Pro models that do not adopt it.

Another news, also quite expected, is that these new iPad Pros give switch to OLED technology for your screens. Recall that currently the Pro models have LED (Liquid Retina) and mini-LED (Liquid Retina XDR) screens. Of course, the big question in this regard is whether this change (if confirmed) will see both the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models, or if it will be exclusive to the larger size for now. And in that case, of course, we’ll have to see if the 11-incher keeps its LED panel or if it makes the jump to mini-LED to improve on the current generation.

It is also expected, although in this case not with such certainty, that Apple will present at this event in May new iPad Air similar in size to iPad Pro 12.9, which would be added to the refreshed version of the only 10.9-inch model currently available. In this case, the SoC used in the current version of the M1 is the first generation of Apple Silicon, so it also makes a lot of sense to expect to see a jump to the M3. In this way, Apple would replicate the strategy it maintains with the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air with the iPads with which they share the “last name”.

Finally, let’s get to what the event announcement image tells us, the Apple Pencil, a device introduced by the tech company in 2015 and which received an interesting update three years later in 2018. Since then, the only notable news is that last November the 2.0 revision was introduced, now with a USB-C port, a move that is part of Cupertino’s adoption of the connectivity standard. technological field.

The Apple Pencil isn’t a device that has much to talk about, but many of its users agree on its good design and great utility (or at least that’s what I heard from my immediate surroundings). So it’s somewhat surprising that it does more than five years without renewal, and even more so that the company did not use the leap to USB-C precisely to launch its third generation. Now it seems his time has finally come.

But the striking thing is that the pointer is in the center of the picture, which it invites us to think that interesting news awaits us in this regard. Which one is it? Well, the truth is that there have been no relevant rumors in this regard and we are talking about the type of device where it is hard to imagine any changes other than solely improving its operation and more software options to get even more out of it. However, let’s remember that we are talking about Apple, so there is always room to expect some surprises.