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Looks pretty ridiculous to me, at least in that implementation
Hard pass
Hard pass
Why?
I love Apple. I love my iPhone but they haven’t innovated in years. They play the opposite game now. They ‘perfect’ things.
If Samsung is intending to release this next year, should it happen to be something that takes off don’t expect to see Apple have anything like it for at least two years.
I love Apple. I love my iPhone but they haven’t innovated in years. They play the opposite game now. They ‘perfect’ things.
If Samsung is intending to release this next year, should it happen to be something that takes off don’t expect to see Apple have anything like it for at least two years.
I would rather have my ole flip Razor back than this...
Same here...i would love to have a foldable iphone.....
These are Samsungs folding phone based on the rumors......pretty awesome. Imagine an iphone that could do this.....I'd buy in a heartbeat.
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Your thread title states “I would have expected this from Apple”, how can you expect something from Apple when the competitor (Samsung) hasn’t even released this foldable display yet? My point is, its not even a reality.
I hear you but remember what everybody said about the large iPhone 6 Plus... pretty much the same thing you just said. So… We will see
You really can’t compare the iPhone 6 Plus compared to a foldable display. Smart phones were leading at that time to larger displays, and Apple finally released their version of that.
It’s interesting and we will have to wait and see how it pans out. But imagine having a device that can act as both a tablet and phone and you don’t have to sacrifice portability as it folds down to the size of a phone and can be opened to use as a tablet.
And no I wouldn’t expect something like this from Apple because they aren’t usually first to do things. They usually wait until a technology has matured before adopting it.
However somehow we will hear that Samsung have copied Apple and have rushed this out just to beat them.
And no I wouldn’t expect something like this from Apple because they aren’t usually first to do things. They usually wait until a technology has matured before adopting it.
However somehow we will hear that Samsung have copied Apple and have rushed this out just to beat them.
What did Apple ever innovate rather than improve?
Computers? They existed before. Sure, Apple was at the forefront of personal computing, which was itself a new implementation of what came before.
iPod? Nope.
iPhone? Hardly.
These are the very things that made them who they are.
The list goes on. AirPods are a more recent product and they’re as Apple-esque as anything. Take an existing thing and revise it to be truly useful and convenient.
Howdoya text and drive with that device?
I’m sure every 19 year- old will figure that out upon release.
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https://gizmodo.com/5926688/how-steve-wozniak-became-the-genius-who-invented-the-personal-computer
Steve Wozniak from Apple invented the Personal Computer.
Apple Invented the first phone that was a real smart phone. It changed the world as we know it today. No other phone before it was able to do that.
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/26/15...ry-launch-mobile-stats-smart-phone-steve-jobs
I’m pretty sure I saw an article about Apple experimenting with foldable displays with LG.
Edit: Apple already folds the display behind the scenes on the iPhone X to basically get rid of the chin.
Edit: Apple already folds the display behind the scenes on the iPhone X to basically get rid of the chin.
Not really.
Palm Treo was introduced in early 2000s. Palm had their own "app store" where you could buy programs and install them via the Palm Desktop program. Windows Mobile smartphones existed before iPhone (eg. HP iPAQ). Some might argue Nokia had smartphones.
What Apple did with iPhone was right place, right time. Caught the growth of 3G networks, cheaper/larger/better displays, ditto flash, ARM really coming to prominence. But big thing was putting in a "real" web browser, not the mobile/WAP browsers most had up until then, imo. It took a while for sites to catch up, but many sites looked/worked the same as what you saw on your desktop from the get go. Oh and, taking touchscreen to next level (again, Palm had on screen keyboards, touchscreens, just not as nice as where Apple took it).
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Yup. Invented the personal computer. Without a doubt a great evolution of what computing could be.
Inventing the smartphone? Hardly. Coming up with a much more intuitive smartphone? Absolutely. I was looking at smartphones many years prior to 2007. They sucked. But the category was there. Apple didn’t invent it.
The problem now is that people watching progress in real time don’t attribute the same innovation as to their memory of past achievements.
It’s difficult to say how much it’s worth until we actually see the product. All we have now are working concepts. Any of which may be the actually galaxy X or it could be completely different. We just don’t know at this point.
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I think this is what Apple do best. Take existing technology and refine it into something that can be used by the masses. Although whilst the Apple Watch and airpods are great devices I don’t think they have had anything teally revolutionary since the iPad and I think even with the iPad there is room to debate how revolutionary that really is. However it doesn’t really matter. It’s untralistic to expect them or any other company to keep re-inventing the wheel.
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I would agree that the iPhone was the first ‘real’ smart phone. There were others phones out there that could do a lot of what the iPhone could do but Apple were the first to put it all together in user fiendly device that ‘just worked’.
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After seeing a bit more of this possible device, it looks like a normal modern phone that's a PHONE. However, it opens up to a iPad like screen for viewing bigger picture. A person would look like a king size winney to hold the whole display up to their ear although I guess you could also use it as a speaker phone.
Forget about me buying one though...
Forget about me buying one though...
Yes I think the days of one company having a device which is so revolutionary that no other company had even thought about it are gone. Samsung will probably be the first to get their product to market, but LG, Apple and even google are probably working on the same thing right now. Nobody is copying anyone. It’s just the direction of the industry at the moment.
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They took all the existing technologies and put them into a device that was easy to use and appealed to the masses.
A lot of the earlier smartphones were clunky, would not have appealed to the everyday person and in some instances were cumbersome. Did they had most of the capabilities of the iPhone? Yes but they were not as refined and couldn’t appeal to the mass market in the same way that Apple were able to make the original iPhone do.
The iPhone’s real party trick was multitouch coupled with iOS.
Saying the iPhone is the first real smartphone is a bit like saying the unibody MacBook was the first real laptop because it coupled macOS and multitouch trackpad into a single device.
Just because it sucked doesn’t mean the smartphone category didn’t exist before iPhone. It did. Apple didn’t invent it. They didn’t invent the multitouch screen. The iPhone was implementation. Not invention. None of this detracts from the genius of it.
Saying the iPhone is the first real smartphone is a bit like saying the unibody MacBook was the first real laptop because it coupled macOS and multitouch trackpad into a single device.
Just because it sucked doesn’t mean the smartphone category didn’t exist before iPhone. It did. Apple didn’t invent it. They didn’t invent the multitouch screen. The iPhone was implementation. Not invention. None of this detracts from the genius of it.