Apple has had what can only be described as a tough year, with falling iPhone sales, Group FaceTime bugs, and a high-profile privacy squabble with Facebook and Google dominating the headlines. But a new rumor suggests that Apple is hoping to turn it all around with an update to one of its most popular products.
I’m not talking about the iPhone or the Mac Pro (though updates to those are surely coming this year too). The product rumored to be getting an imminent update is the long-in-the-tooth iPad mini, which still has the same specs as it did when the fourth-generation was released in September 2015.
Even with four-year-old parts, the iPad mini 4 could still be a solid choice as an entry-level tablet. With an A8 processor (the same one that’s in the iPhone 6), the mini is capable of running the newest version of iOS 12, and with a 7.9-inch 2048 × 1536 display, it’s Apple’s most pixel-dense tablet. It’s got 128GB of storage, Touch ID, and a much more portable design than the 9.7-inch iPad.
