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Apple will release a stronger, more premium-feeling iPad Magic Keyboard<\/a> alongside the iPad Pro next year, according to Mark Gurman\u2019s latest Power On <\/em>newsletter for Bloomberg. <\/em>The keyboard, he reports, will use an aluminum top case while keeping the soft material found on the bottom of the keyboard now. It will also still have only one USB-C port, he writes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gurman notes that the current keyboard is prone to bending and tearing over time, so hopefully an aluminum top case and the larger trackpad he wrote about last week<\/a> will improve things, though one wonders about closing it over the iPad\u2019s screen. The updated iPad Pro design isn\u2019t coming until next year, so how Apple handles that is for future us to learn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A hardier Magic Keyboard with a bigger trackpad will go a long way to making the iPad feel more like a laptop, and I think that\u2019s probably a good thing. That is if Apple can actually thread the needle of making appropriate software and hardware changes while still keeping the iPad true to itself, which so far has seemed like an understandably big challenge. It doesn\u2019t seem like a shiny new keyboard can make for a better iPad<\/a> on its own, though. At least, it hasn\u2019t so far<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n