French website Numerama interviewed three senior Apple employees about the new iPad Pro models that launched earlier this month. While the

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) designers have now hinted at a potential design change for future iPad models, suggesting that the iconic “bitten apple” logo could be repositioned. What Happened: Apple’s current iPad models have the Apple logo positioned to appear upright in the vertical orientation.

Of course, that’s a quite vague answer, but Apple employees usually don’t say anything they can’t in interviews. This could be a hint that the company is indeed considering changing the orientation of the Apple logo on the back of iPads to match the MacBooks.

When Apple unveiled the new iPad Pro and iPad Air at its Let Loose event in early May, the most notable change was the new location for the front camera. Following the 10th-gen iPad’s lead, Apple finally moved the camera to the longer “landscape” edge, making FaceTime calls much more natural when docked.

Numerama conducted an interview with three senior Apple employees regarding the new iPad Pro models that were released earlier this month. It follows

Additionally, in the French interview, the designers told Numerama that they think of the iPad, the new Apple Pencil, and the Magic Keyboard as a single product. If Apple is heading down a landscape oriented tablet, it might mean a focus on actually making a device that could reasonably replace a laptop.

The idea behind the vertical iPad logo is that it appears the right way up when the tablet is in portrait. But with iPads often used in landscape mode and attached to a keyboard, there are some that believe the iPad should have a horizontal Apple logo to match. Now, a new report suggests that Apple might even agree.

An Apple product designer has suggested that future iPads could get a significant design change. That suits modern use cases for the model, but also raises questions over other devices from the brand.

A new interview with Apple's iPad design team has revealed the company is considering switching up the logo on the back to landscape.