Other Foldable iPhones are a great thing - hear me out!

[blairh]

You still have not explained why a folding phone is better, except saying it’s different. You’re bored. But that’s your problem, not ours.

That's an utterly ridiculous response. It has nothing to do with my personal boredom of the modern smartphone. But rather the candy bar shaped smartphone can only offer you so much. It is limited simply by its shape in itself. A folding smartphone allows for the creation of a hybrid device that acts as both a smartphone and tablet. The user chooses the experience when desired. I can assure you that a future folding iPhone would be desired by countless millions of consumers.
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Jack of all trades…master of none.

This becomes then another argument: iDevice or computer? Digital camera or the camera on a smartphone?

The iPhone and the iPad themselves do a lot well enough to be used a substitutes for dedicated tech, but they haven't replaced those dedicated things. There is always some compromise. But if what it does is sufficient for you and for others then that's great. Everyone uses what is best for them.

This isn't going to replace my phone, my iPad or my desktop Macs though.

This has nothing to do with replacing anything. It creates a new category that offers an experience that is not available anywhere else. It unleashes the potential for a tablet experience in the convenience of your front pocket.

 

[Ta0jin]

So let’s take your confidence and say an folding iPhone launches three years from now. Do you know how much potential has to change between now and then if where this never happens? A lot. I’m sure Apple has some type of R&D in the background that they’re working on for a ‘prototype‘ (Cuz’ that’s what tech companies do, they experiment with technology that may never come to fruition), but if you look at their advancements for the iPhone, I doubt a folding iPhone is the future, not when the AR/LiDAR/health capabilities is technology pushing the iPhone forward, not a hinged device.

that’s great that you want to see a folding iPhone, but you have to have a sense of realism in terms of how makes Apple money, and given smart phones have plateaued for years, there’s not much market cap room for a ‘folding iPhone‘ that will be priced out of consumers reach.

I always look forward to your responses in these type of threads, you seem to make the most sense around here.

 

[snipr125]

I have a Mac Pro connected to six large monitors for things like that. As big as a foldable is, it's not going to unfold to the size of my 55" HDTV.

Good concept and useful I suppose for certain people, but not anything I'd use to replace what I have currently.

It would seem (to me) then that one of the arguments for foldable is a means to have dual displays - something computers have had for years.
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Eyoungren, I understand what your saying but you can’t carry a Mac Pro with its 6 monitors in your pocket can you? that’s what a potential flip iPhone With dual screens can do for you as a mobile device.

 

[blairh]

I have a Mac Pro connected to six large monitors for things like that. As big as a foldable is, it's not going to unfold to the size of my 55" HDTV.

Good concept and useful I suppose for certain people, but not anything I'd use to replace what I have currently.

It would seem (to me) then that one of the arguments for foldable is a means to have dual displays - something computers have had for years.

It wouldn't be dual displays. It would unfold to a larger display. Like the Galaxy Fold.

It's a hybrid smartphone/tablet device. You choose which experience you want when you want.

 

[daimos]

If you fold a phone suddenly it becomes hybrid ? I don't get it.

 

[blairh]

If you fold a phone suddenly it becomes hybrid ? I don't get it.

You aren’t folding a phone. You are creating a tablet that folds into a phone.

 

[Ta0jin]

You aren’t folding a phone. You are creating a tablet that folds into a phone.

Maybe it’s just me but personally I would feel like “cool my phone folds open into a small tablet” but I also have an iPad and I couldn’t justify the cost of this foldable unless it gave me software features that my iPad couldn’t. I can justify spending money on a MacBook and an iPad because they do similar things but there’s a different experience in use especially when you take into account the Apple Pencil. That being said, I’m sure there will be people lined up outside the Apple store to purchase this foldable.

 

[blairh]

Maybe it’s just me but personally I would feel like “cool my phone folds open into a small tablet” but I also have an iPad and I couldn’t justify the cost of this foldable unless it gave me software features that my iPad couldn’t. I can justify spending money on a MacBook and an iPad because they do similar things but there’s a different experience in use especially when you take into account the Apple Pencil. That being said, I’m sure there will be people lined up outside the Apple store to purchase this foldable.

How about having an iPad experience everywhere you go? That's something a folding iPhone would offer that no iPad can.

 

[Ta0jin]

How about having an iPad experience everywhere you go? That's something a folding iPhone would offer that no iPad can.

I have the 12.9 inch iPad Pro and I have that one because I like the bigger screen and personally I don’t think a foldable phone can re-create that same experience for me especially considering I do a lot of drawing on my iPad and even with maybe a small stylus I still couldn’t re-create that experience. Also I don’t know that I personally would want an iPad experience that I could fold up and put in my back pocket. If I wanted to I could just take my iPad with me in a bag but I do understand that there is a group of people that would want to be able to have a foldable phone that would open up into a small tablet. It wouldn’t work for me but I’m sure it would work perfect for some people.

 

[blairh]

I have the 12.9 inch iPad Pro and I have that one because I like the bigger screen and personally I don’t think a foldable phone can re-create that same experience for me especially considering I do a lot of drawing on my iPad and even with maybe a small stylus I still couldn’t re-create that experience. Also I don’t know that I personally would want an iPad experience that I could fold up and put in my back pocket. If I wanted to I could just take my iPad with me in a bag but I do understand that there is a group of people that would want to be able to have a foldable phone that would open up into a small tablet. It wouldn’t work for me but I’m sure it would work perfect for some people.

Right. I think the proper comparison would be an iPad Mini.

 

[tegranjeet]

Think different, we won't even have "phones" in 2030. The future is wearable communication devices with digital projection. Apple's glasses will be the first catalyst in this movement. Foldable phones are a backwards concept, not a forward thinking revolution. Samsung and Motorola just wanted to see how many suckers would pony up $1.5k+.

 

[44267547]

Think different, we won't even have "phones" in 2030. The future is wearable communication devices with digital projection. Apple's glasses will be the first catalyst in this movement. Foldable phones are a backwards concept, not a forward thinking revolution. Samsung and Motorola just wanted to see how many suckers would pony up $1.5k+.

Probably one of the best posts I’ve read that seemingly is entirely accurate what you just said on this site. The AR glasses/Apple Watch will coincide with each other in the future, the iPhone will be a thing of the past I suspect around the timeframe that you mentioned. Seriously, brilliant post.