The crease is inconsequential. It literally disappears from your vision because the anti-reflection coating is so darn good. The crease feel is almost non-existent that you forget that it's even there. This is from someone who have tried the Z Fold 4, Pixel Fold, and the OnePlus Open. The OnePlus simply has the best hardware and its now getting surpassed by the Honor Magic V3 and Vivo X Fold 3 Pro and Xioami Mix Fold 4. I didn't keep the OnePlus Open because I was waiting for the disappointing Z Fold 6.
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Apple Reportedly Working on Foldable iPhone With Similar Design as Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip
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How does *having* foldables, whether on Android or forbid one day by Apple, that *you* don't have to buy in anyway impact you?
If people want a smartphone, ok. Until I see decent wear and tear in production models not have to spend (5,000.00 example price) I don't need.
And again if apple did that research where are you getting hundreds of millions from.
Also apple spent a decade working on apple car and we see how that turned out.
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I have not see them yet. I’m sure the hardware is nice but anything android is terrible so it’s not something I follow
So you work in a phone shop, and think you know it all? Why would anyone come into the Apple Store and ask for products that they clearly don't have? Sure, you have a fair few, but they aren't the smartest amongst us...
I'd love another form factor. I've always liked flip phones. I'd like a smaller iPhone, but not be limited to having the small screen all the time. I have a macbook, and ipad for bigger work. I know my daughters would love the candybar foldable version.
Regardless, it is not about androidifying that has no bearing, it is great to have choice and variety.
Glad you like yours! I guess things like this are subjective, though. For you, it's inconsequential, which is cool. For me, it's a no-go.
If Apple enters this market, I'd hope for them to do something different, like a rollable screen which potentially eliminates that central ridge:
It's the same with the smaller MacBook... the assumption is if I don't need it then the market doesn't
As for myself I have a Flip and it's replaced my 15 Pro for going out running, golf, etc when I'm wearing shorts... actually it's also becoming more and more my "going out" phone (when I don't need the Apple ecosystem with me)
Given the mini went away it's a gap risk to not have the smaller form factors covered (especially if rumors are true that iPhones will get slightly bigger screens going forward)
I just don’t see the point of this.
Why change what is already been good for many years?
If it unfolded into a tablet, then yes it would be good. Though a Z flip design being an “iFold” doesn’t sound the most appealing.
Especially with the cress that will be visible on the screen. Including the material would have to be different which compromises scratch resistance. Unless Apple finds a way to overcome that.
Why change what is already been good for many years?
If it unfolded into a tablet, then yes it would be good. Though a Z flip design being an “iFold” doesn’t sound the most appealing.
Especially with the cress that will be visible on the screen. Including the material would have to be different which compromises scratch resistance. Unless Apple finds a way to overcome that.
Yes, I would call it a ridge or valley perhaps, but it's not a crease. We are talking about a ridge that is maybe 1/20th of a millimeter deep, if even. And again, that is only because at the present time, physics won't allow any hardware behind this portion of the inner display. If you remove the screen from the device and set it on a table, it will lay completely flat. Anyway, I'm not trying to sell you on it, but you cannot see this ridge unless you are holding the phone at angles which you wouldn't normally be holding it, in lighting conditions that you won't be in 95% of the time. You also cannot feel the ridge when you move your finger over the middle of the display, unless you are pushing down harder than you should be. I say all this to say the crease, weight, and dimensions are no longer a factor which should deter anyone from at least trying a OnePlus Open, if they are interested in getting a book style foldable anyway. 😊
Frankly, I think bendable displays’ is the wrong approach. I have long-held to an idea that different design would be impervious to damage from a crease. Don’t care to go into it much further than that. 😐
The OnePlus Open still has the best overall hardware and software experience, in my opinion. I don't like Honor's version of Android. It is very buggy and not nearly as user friendly. Also, Honor and Vivo phones aren't covered on at least AT&Ts insurance, where my OnePlus Open is. Also, sometimes Honor and Vivo phones have trouble with 5G, in America anyway. I don't have any trouble getting and staying on 5G with my OPO.
I haven’t worked just in phone stores and I have worked with marketing and directly with various OEMs as well as consumer experience.
So no it’s not just me working at the local telecom. Thanks though.
Again you’re a part of a very vocal minority.
It very much is androidfying.
Especially at the expense of the ethos of iOS and how it works. (See iOS 18 and its androidfication).
Well in the case of smaller iPhones we saw as much as people “demanded” that the market didn’t want that.
Go figure. And I’ve actually seen more ppl demeanding another mini than a foldable iPhone.
The smartest among us? That sounds a bit elitist.
Furthermore people come into the stores to ask if their phones can do what this phone they heard can do all the time.
When I unfortunately sold android and thought android was an actual Os, there’s a reason why every android Phone was referred to as a droid even though they were using an Lg or Sony. People equated Verizon’s droid campaign with all androids.
Before the iPhone 6 came out ppl were wanting and asking for a bigger iPhone because they saw their friends with bigger devices.
Nobody is coming into apple stores or Oems asking when is apple doing a foldable? Most iOS users see android foldables as COOL but in passing not because they are demanding it.
My friend saw my z flip and said that looks cool but he’d never use it because it was android (smart man) and he didn’t really see the point of it because it seemed fragile
Same with emulators. RCS. That’s a vocal minority demanding it. Not the everyday apple consumer aka the majority of apple users. Just because you on a forum who cares about this and have your fellow friends hype it up doesn’t mean that’s what the market wants.
I can go onto a windows phone subreddit now and find a bunch of ppl who will tell you windows phone needs to come back. Probably more so than an iPhone foldable lol. But they aren’t the market. They would be loud fanatics.
Exhibit a.
Apple users are far more rigid and conservative in how much change they will accept so no as of today the market is not demanding foldables.
Android foldables aren’t even outselling slabs and the top android phones sold aren’t even high end phones lmao.
It’s their budget phone. The market has spoken then. They clearly want cheap laggy android.
Im no vocal minority. Im expressing that I’d like that formfactor on a thread that is about that form factor. You’ve never see me spam this or other forums crying why they don’t do it.
And how is liking a form factor androidifying? It has nothing to do with Android. I don’t want Android thank you very much.
I honestly don’t understand how you can jump to those conclusions based on what I’ve posted.
Guess what, folks. "Nobody" on the Android side asked for foldable phones, either. Every review of foldable phones asks some variation of "who is this for?" "Is this ready for primetime?". But they keep making them, so somebody is buying them. I don't think Samsung et al are just throwing money down a hole
If Apple makes one, I guarantee they'll sell more units than the APV
If Apple makes one, I guarantee they'll sell more units than the APV
Foldables have have a few niche benefits; but for the most part it's a gimmick.
But that's exactly what apple does; come up with a gimmick; market it to the moon then sell it for billions.
You specifically maybe not. But you’re definitely a part of the vocal minority of macrumors users.
It’s not 2014 anymore mate.
While iPhone is clearly their biggest revenue apple is no longer centered solely around iPhone especially since there is a slump in iPhone sales.
These days apple is putting more focus on its other very successful products so they aren’t solely dependent on iPhone. Which is intelligent.
Apple spent a decade on car and how much money only to realize nobody asked for that.