I’m sorry but I find this mindset so odd. There is so much potential in the future of this category. Super thin screens. Water and dust proof. I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t be interested in a screen that expands easily when unfolded that you carry in a front pocket.
Wow! You look screened-out! And if that weren't enough, you could unfold your laptop on the shelf of the white table for another screen! eyoungren, I promise I won't try to sell you another screen. I'll try to sell everyone else one, though!^^^^^Why do I need this?
Because I don't need what a foldable offers. I use my phone for phone calls, light email and texting and some light news/web browsing when I'm out. That's all I use it for.
First, why do you care? I can assure you investors don’t. Whatever apple releases, as long as they can count thousands Of dollar bills all day or see their six figure investment return or more in their bank account, they will be happy regardless. Second, please have a read of below quote again, and try to understand why he says so.
Third, foldable is still and will continue to be novelty for a long time. Yes, Apple don’t get to design products themselves, market does, but market isn’t a “Be all and all” either. Plus, current foldables still leave much to be desired, and Apple would not want to spend too much into it and make investors unhappy. I for one would not be bothered about a foldable anytime soon Simply because of the price tag.
For someone who Carries iPad out instead of iPhone regularly foldable phone brings no benefit.
Think of all this in terms whether it worth selling from Apple's perspective to begin with?
I'll focus on these two points. While the first version of an electronic is advertised as a solution to a problem, all iterations that follow are either updates (though not necessarily upgrades), or repackagings of the same product with a different screen size, like sausages being cut into different lengths before being sold at the right price per ounce.
Ahh so you are just focusing on a iphone that becomes a iPad and all the bugs that go with it. Do you know why up to now Apple has never done this because you are stuck with iOS, not that IOS suddenly behaves like iPadOS with some multitasking and Apps that have more depth to them. Also the browser with iOS doesn't always reflect a desktop it defaults sometimes as a mobile, where as IPadOS it works as a desktop browser.
They were also beaten to smartphones. So, there’s that.
I’d rather have an 8” screen in my pocket. And that’s what a foldable offers.
I completely agree with you. The hardest part of making a foldable is not minimizing the crease, improving durability, or prolonging battery life, but optimizing the software for the inner display as Dave from Dave2D has said.
Fair enough, why root for any of them? I just get irked when I see a company just “follow” others, only to be always be financially rewarded for it to a greater degree than the others. Then, to go on further and financially exploit its customers as much as possible.
Fun fact only apple is only one where sales are level or up. Other's are seeing a big decline year on year.
