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Huawei Aims to Upstage Sep 9 Apple Event With Tri-Fold Phone Debut
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And thats the one and only reason for apples declining china market share. Its retaliation for outsourcing more apple product manufacturing out of the country. Like to india for example. The tight excessive covid lockdowns in china caused big supply and sales issues for apple so theyre wisely and slowly reinvesting in other countries.
It's retaliation for the US banning Huawei and ZTE.
anything can upstage the "new" iPhone 16 which is basically the same iPhone from years ago... no evolution at all.
Apple invented the smart phone in 2007 and now they are behind everyone else because nothing new and exciting has been done...
it's kinda sad
Apple invented the smart phone in 2007 and now they are behind everyone else because nothing new and exciting has been done...
it's kinda sad
All these manufacturers trying desperately to invent the new thing that creates a craze and a surge. But failing miserably. No one cares about folding phones.
there are more people in Shanghai than there are in 12 mayor USA cities combined... China IS the market...
So Huawei is going to beat Apple with a flip phone? I wish them luck.
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Companies like Huawei have to take the product market risk to create a different product within the Android ecosystem. Apple does not. Stating that Apple has no leadership is very general statement as they are market leaders in just about every category within the smartphone and tablet market. Vision Pro is too expensive to become mass produced and adopted worldwide.
I don't see how a phone that folds like a Z can not have durability issues. Typically the outer cover glass is hard to protect the display on the outside when placed on a surface, dropped, or when pocketed. If it folds like a Z, then it doesn't matter because there will always be at least one side that has the softer, flexible display on the outside.
3 fold is yesterday. I want a 7 fold. No, in fact I want a sushi roll. I would just unroll it.
I guess the only way to improve on one busted screen hinge is to add a second.
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No surprise about collective sentiment in a thread like this. However, anyone able to step outside of relentless brand bias might notice that the new idea here is not still:
To match the "but why?" utility for us Apple people means carrying BOTH an iPhone AND a large iPad with us at all times: multiple cameras, same internal tech, extra aluminum, extra screen, extra battery, extra glass, extra speakers, etc. In short, that's LOTS of duplication of size & weight & tech to accomplish the same core benefit.
Companies thinking like this are attempting to "fold" 2 different devices into one so that both are always with us. Want/need a bigger screen than a puny phone size at times? Fold it out to have something more like an iPad Air. Wish you could more easily carry that bigger iPad around (pocket ability)? Fold that iPad screen down to iPhone size and stick it in your pocket. That's the proposition for all of these kinds of creations: have your cake and eat it too... instead of having to buy and carry around TWO mostly same/similar cakes.
All tech roads seem to be trying to run to ONE place: BIGGER MOBILE SCREENS. Nobody seems to be working on shrinking screens. Whether folds or multi-folds are the answer... vs. rolls... vs. virtualized screen in glasses/goggles... vs. projectors... vs. something else: all efforts are trying to deliver bigger screens on the go.
Is this a great crack at that or not? Apple fans: "no way/solution in search of a problem/what's the point/I will never want.../abomination/blah blah blah" (the standard "detest whatever Apple does not offer"... YET). But, final analysis is still final analysis: if we Apple people want BOTH phone and iPad-size screens, we have to buy and carry around TWO devices that are technically almost the same... except for different screen sizes. Competitors like this are attempting to put BOTH options in a pocket as ONE product.
I cheer them on as I can always appreciate more screen R.E.- especially meaningfully more screen R.E. vs. getting excited about screens growing a few mm year over year. And I hope Apple embraces folds/rolls/other so that my own iPad device (also as phone) preference can eventually be pocketable too.
- unfold phone-size screen to small tablet screen but instead
- unfold phone-size screen to larger tablet screen.
To match the "but why?" utility for us Apple people means carrying BOTH an iPhone AND a large iPad with us at all times: multiple cameras, same internal tech, extra aluminum, extra screen, extra battery, extra glass, extra speakers, etc. In short, that's LOTS of duplication of size & weight & tech to accomplish the same core benefit.
Companies thinking like this are attempting to "fold" 2 different devices into one so that both are always with us. Want/need a bigger screen than a puny phone size at times? Fold it out to have something more like an iPad Air. Wish you could more easily carry that bigger iPad around (pocket ability)? Fold that iPad screen down to iPhone size and stick it in your pocket. That's the proposition for all of these kinds of creations: have your cake and eat it too... instead of having to buy and carry around TWO mostly same/similar cakes.
All tech roads seem to be trying to run to ONE place: BIGGER MOBILE SCREENS. Nobody seems to be working on shrinking screens. Whether folds or multi-folds are the answer... vs. rolls... vs. virtualized screen in glasses/goggles... vs. projectors... vs. something else: all efforts are trying to deliver bigger screens on the go.
Is this a great crack at that or not? Apple fans: "no way/solution in search of a problem/what's the point/I will never want.../abomination/blah blah blah" (the standard "detest whatever Apple does not offer"... YET). But, final analysis is still final analysis: if we Apple people want BOTH phone and iPad-size screens, we have to buy and carry around TWO devices that are technically almost the same... except for different screen sizes. Competitors like this are attempting to put BOTH options in a pocket as ONE product.
I cheer them on as I can always appreciate more screen R.E.- especially meaningfully more screen R.E. vs. getting excited about screens growing a few mm year over year. And I hope Apple embraces folds/rolls/other so that my own iPad device (also as phone) preference can eventually be pocketable too.
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I've been looking at the flagship foldables and I would be seriously annoyed if I had one.
They're too thick, heavy, fragile, and on top of that they're much more expensive.
I'm more glad than anything about the fact that Apple is not too distracted with this technology right now.
Yes, they are. Been using a Samsung Fold for a year now and I love it
Tri-fold sounds like it's toilet paper-related.
Different audience. Good luck “upstaging Apple”. Some companies think innovation means apply some gimmick and that’ll make a great product. Not saying foldable are a gimmick or not necessarily but I don’t think satisfied current Apple customers are looking at Huawei or seeing “foldable” = considering switching. This reminds me of when competitors lean on their speeds-and-feeds and think thats all what makes a good product.
New SNL sketch (if SNL was still good) an Octafold phone. Its like origami 8 fold phone.
New SNL sketch (if SNL was still good) an Octafold phone. Its like origami 8 fold phone.
Double hinge double crease double the trouble and 2x fragile
Keep it going
Keep it going
Since you owned each generation and multiple brands, am I wrong in assuming you don’t use them fully for more than a year?
In other words: no wonder you have no reliability issues.
Get back to use when you use one single model of any of these for 3+ years.