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New rumors claimed that MacBook Air 2016 release will probably not happen as tech giant Apple will reportedly drop the MacBook Air line in lieu of iPad Pro.
According to Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research, it may not be long before Apple will discontinue the line. "This wasn't the MacBook Air, but instead leaped past the Air. The kept [the MacBook Air] around just as they do with older iPhones, but the MacBook is now in the same position as the newest iPhone. That makes me wonder if the Air will go away over time," Dawson told Macworld.
It seems that Dawson is not the only person convinced that the MacBook Air will be phased out soon. Chief of research and head of US Business for Kantar World Panel Comtech Carolina Milanesi told the publication that Apple is moving towards mobility and portability, which will prompt the MacBook to be obsolete. This mobility is provided by the new iPad Pro.
"All [notebooks] need to be more mobile, so something like the Air doesn't need to be branched out anymore ... and it's to Apple's benefit not to have so many 'families' of Macs," Milanesi said.
Previous reports claimed that MacBook Air 2016 could be announced as soon as Black Friday alongside the Apple OS X El Capitan operating system.
Meanwhile, some of the purported features of the MacBook Air 2016 are 13-inch and 15-inch screen displays, Intel Skylake-U chipset, OS X El Capitan, Type-C USB port, and an improved battery life. The laptops will most likely be equipped with Force Touch technology. The MacBook Air will be even thinner than last time.
However, Apple has not confirmed the aforementioned features and release date.
