In his 2021 report, Gurman said that a 14-inch iPad Pro-like tablet was in the pipeline and could hit the shelves in 2023.
First off and very obvious: Apple wouldn’t want its tablets to encroach on the market of its computers by giving a new iPad model a Mac-sized screen.
And it’s not just about diluting the differentiation between the Mac and iPad alone. There are some cost and screen restrictions that Apple has to consider. The company is already planning a slightly bigger 13-inch iPad Pro for the first half of 2024 with an OLED screen. It presumably doesn’t want to release two high-end iPads in close proximity to each other. Per another leaker known as Analyst 941, the 14.1-inch iPad was going to feature the M3 Pro chip and a special version of iPadOS.
