Curious to those downvoting, how do you expect macOS to work exactly on what is essentially a large foldable touchscreen tablet?
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Curious to those downvoting, how do you expect macOS to work exactly on what is essentially a large foldable touchscreen tablet?
If it has no crease and a stand, it could fit in a 11” MacBook Air bag and fold out to iMac size. Who wouldn’t want that?
Wow. Even for rich people $100,000 is a lot to spend on a 65" TV. Also who would have thought that people wouldn't be breaking the doors down to be able to roll up their TV?Discontinued! I guess the $100000 TV market wasn't too lucrative.
LG’s $100,000 rollable OLED R TV is officially dead — and for good reason
Rolling into obscuritywww.tomsguide.com
Nearly crease-free = creased. There endeth today's lesson 👍
As long as Apple actually presents this thing as having real-world advantages over the traditional alternative form factor, then I'll be all in as a day one early adopter. I just hope it isn't another overpriced, gimmicky hype machine like the Vision Pro that costs as much as a down payment on a new car for you to have the ability to..pretend you're on a mountain for 90 minutes during a flight? That seems worth $4,000+ to me 👍
They already did it... It's called the iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard.
I bought one and can assure this is Apple's not-so-subtle nod to the form factor you describe. Magic Keyboard pricing also confirms this is their intention.
And honestly it works great. Sure there are some use cases that still outright require a Mac, but for 90% of basic tasks this setup works phenomenally well. The other downside is that a surprising amount of iPad apps are 1:1 ported from the iPhone and don't fill the screen.
Overall there's a bright future for convertible iOS laptops, including this fold rumor.
No doubt. My point is that Apple under Cook is moving away from MacOS as rapidly as possible.
Explain how Vision Pro is a developer device when you can't develop anything with it.
It's not automatically a developer device just because there is barely any consumer interest.
Moving away? No. That is inaccurate. The Mac has gotten the biggest boost in its entire existence under Tim Cook by way of Apple Silicon and rapid iterations.
Instead of moving away, Apple has introduced other products that don't use macOS because they are more attractive to more people. Most people do not need macOS, so products are made for them. But a core group of people will always need macOS, and there is no "moving away" from it.
I'm of course using my own opinion on what it is - and is why I won't buy it. You can develop for it, not "with it". It's practically a beta device in my eyes, it exists to start a platform.
True. They even built the AVP to help speed this up, which is saying something!
Apple has acknowledged that the system level architecture on macOS is not meant to be replicated or replaced by iOS. So as much as he wishes Apple could replace all Mac sales with iOS devices, even he knows this is still quite a ways away.
LOL the fact that someone who is developing for Vision Pro needs a Vision Pro to test the thing they developed does not make it a developer device.
Nobody including LG thought people would actually buy this. It essentially was a proof of concept, that technically was available for retail sale, but of course no retailers actually had it either.
That bottom half better be touch sensitive. It would also be nice to put the doc down there too as an option. But with a Touch Bar like 4 times as tall or more, that would be a half way point from needing a whole keyboard that has LCD's. The bottom part would have buttons like an iPad and interactive controls for apps. Or just be a doc for menus for certain apps. But with apples way of ditching ideas, I don't know how many developers are going to change the way their apps work to make it useful. They are not going to make their Mac version way better than their windows versions even if that strip was useful. Playing a movie with movie controls off the screen is nice though. Full screen apps would work way better with something like that.
Anyone paying attention knows that Apple had hoped the iPad would supplant and replace the Mac about 9 years ago now.
Ruin the life for those of us who wants macOS and Mac application to be optimised for keyboard, trackpad and high information density.