Apple considered launching a low-cost integrative iPad that would travel with a keyboard successful the box, according to a recent report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

10th Gen iPad Feature Fanned Pink
Writing successful a caller variation of his newsletter, Gurman explained that Apple had plans to motorboat a new, low-cost ‌iPad‌ exemplary with a integrative casing alternatively of aluminum, for a terms beneath $500. The instrumentality was reportedly acceptable to travel with a carnal keyboard included successful the box. Plastic was the worldly of prime for devices similar the iPhone 3G and the ‌iPhone‌ 5C, but determination has ne'er been an ‌iPad‌ with a integrative casing. Likewise, each ‌iPad‌ keyboard accessories person ever been disposable separately, adding up to $349 to the wide outgo of the purchase.

"The thought was seemingly abandoned, but that was astir apt Apple's lone existent anticipation of ever giving Chromebooks a tally for their wealth successful astir schools," Gurman added. The accusation came aft the announcement of the 10th-generation iPad and the Magic Keyboard Folio, truthful it seems imaginable that this integrative ‌iPad‌ was erstwhile envisioned arsenic an aboriginal mentation of the 10th-generation ‌iPad‌.

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