Numerama interviewed three senior Apple employees about the new iPad Pro models released earlier this month, indicating that future iPads will undergo a noticeable change in appearance.
Currently, the Apple logo on the back panel of the iPad is positioned vertically, but the devices are often used in landscape orientation, for example when watching videos or with a connected keyboard. This causes the Apple logo to turn sideways.
Apple has already moved the front camera to the longer right edge on the new iPad Pro and iPad Air models so that it appears at the top center when the devices are in landscape orientation. Since landscape orientation is becoming more popular, Apple product designer Molly Anderson said that a horizontal Apple logo is possible on future iPads.
"I think that could change," Anderson said. "We're thinking about it. The iPad has long been a product used in portrait mode, but we are increasingly using it in landscape mode."
Regarding software, Apple has already begun displaying the Apple logo in landscape orientation, which appears when the iPad is booted up in that orientation. These changes were introduced in iPadOS 14.5. It seems that future iPads will also undergo changes in external design.
Source: macrumors
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