The iPad Air went from a thin tablet to a stepping stone to spending money
The new M3 iPad Air is an odd duck. Not because it’s bad — far from it — but because Apple just updated the iPad Air a year ago. The company’s middle-of-the-pack tablet got the M2 chip, updated webcam placement, and support for the new Apple Pencil Pro in 2024. The price of the Air didn’t change when it got the M3 chip a few weeks ago, but that doesn’t make what the tablet is for make sense.
