Other A Foldable iPhone will Flop

[Pbwallstreet]

I'll give you an example. I get to the airport early for an international flight. I have three or four hours to kill. I pull out my iPhone, open it up into tablet size and enjoy myself immensely watching movies or reading news. A few hours later, I'm at 40,000 feet. I pull out my sturdy iPhone from my pocket, open it up and are able to enjoy a full tablet sized screen for my personal entertainment. Sounds good to me.

Ok. Now my question is, will you be happy with a plastic screen and a squared off aspect ratio? If you’re travelling, why not have a dedicated iPad in your bag? And iPads will work with solid keyboards and multi-touch trackpads and runs iPadOS, etc. so a person can choose to work on a plane if they want.

 

[Pbwallstreet]

you are not reading and understanding or maybe just don’t care because of why you argue what people are telling you. because when given the answer you ignore it and say the same thing over and over.

i don’t have to explain why i would want a smartphone that converts into a tablet.

the phone doesn’t convert into a tablet. the phone doesn’t convert into a tablet. the phone doesn’t convert into a tablet.

a foldable becomes a bigger phone. why do i want this phone. because i can go from one screen size to another on my phone. not my tablet but my phone.

Why. The point here is that people reach for the right tool for the job. People use smartphones because it has specific use cases. People use a tablet or a desktop because it has specific use cases.

So when tablet use cases present themselves a dedicated tablet makes sense. If it’s a foldable phone, then both the smartphone and the tablet are compromised.

For instance, travelling and being in airports or on a plane… you have bags. Can easily carry an iPad. If you want to just use your phone, will need to prop it up perhaps with a stand watching movies in full tablet screen if you don’t want to hold it. Then you’ll need a keyboard if you want to be productive in certain respects but that would be separate and not integrated into a case like the iPad.

 

[ofarlig]

Why. The point here is that people reach for the right tool for the job. People use smartphones because it has specific use cases. People use a tablet or a desktop because it has specific use cases.

So when tablet use cases present themselves a dedicated tablet makes sense. If it’s a foldable phone, then both the smartphone and the tablet are compromised.

For instance, travelling and being in airports or on a plane… you have bags. Can easily carry an iPad. If you want to just use your phone, will need to prop it up perhaps with a stand watching movies in full tablet screen if you don’t want to hold it. Then you’ll need a keyboard if you want to be productive in certain respects but that would be separate and not integrated into a case like the iPad.

People reach for the most convenient tool for the job and that includes portability, there’s no job where a laptop is the right tool if you disregard convenience and portability since a laptop is compromised compared to a powerful desktop with a larger screen. But most people prefer the laptop because it is much more convenient to bring with you.

The same goes for foldables, yes the iPhone foldable will fold out to be same aspect ratio as the Mini 5 and about the same size as well so you could use an iPad Mini instead. But that requires you to have it with you which requires keeping it in a bag, there are loads of people that want to cover as much of their daily use with what can fit in their pockets (I am one of them).

As someone that uses an iPhone, iPad Mini, iPad Pro with keyboard and a laptop daily there are many use cases where I’d want the iPad Mini but it just isn’t with me and I am forced to use the small screen of my iPhone. I’ve gotten stuck in plenty of situations where using my small phone screen just wasn’t cutting it but I have nothing else with me so I am forced to do it.

 

[Ghost31]

I don’t think it’ll flop. I think it’ll actually do very well for apple. I just think it’ll remain fairly niche because of its price, cut down features and the fact that a lot of people just won’t want/need it. Personally, i switched down in size this year from a 15 pro max to a 17 pro and I couldn’t be happier. Wanted something smaller in my hand so the idea of an expensive foldable is not something im excited about

 

[uuee6543]

Ok. Now my question is, will you be happy with a plastic screen and a squared off aspect ratio? If you’re travelling, why not have a dedicated iPad in your bag? And iPads will work with solid keyboards and multi-touch trackpads and runs iPadOS, etc. so a person can choose to work on a plane if they want.

A folable smartphone isn't only for watching videos. And as long as Apple implements split screen multitasking - which with 12GB of RAM should be easy look at all the iPadfs with only 8GB of RAM - on the new fodable iPhone, there will be countless reasons to get that over a regular iPhone.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Why. The point here is that people reach for the right tool for the job. People use smartphones because it has specific use cases. People use a tablet or a desktop because it has specific use cases.

So when tablet use cases present themselves a dedicated tablet makes sense. If it’s a foldable phone, then both the smartphone and the tablet are compromised.

For instance, travelling and being in airports or on a plane… you have bags. Can easily carry an iPad. If you want to just use your phone, will need to prop it up perhaps with a stand watching movies in full tablet screen if you don’t want to hold it. Then you’ll need a keyboard if you want to be productive in certain respects but that would be separate and not integrated into a case like the iPad.

How is a Foldable a compromised tablet?

 

[FilthyPoor]

iFold. A solid buy! Wish it was this year.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

A folable smartphone isn't only for watching videos. And as long as Apple implements split screen multitasking - which with 12GB of RAM should be easy look at all the iPadfs with only 8GB of RAM - on the new fodable iPhone, there will be countless reasons to get that over a regular iPhone.

Countless reasons for a niche segment of people to get it, sure. I think it will be popular enough as a product, but as others have said, it will always be niche due to cost and appeal. The poll here suggests its fairly even in terms of yes or no to buying a foldable, and we are more on the enthusiast scale of the market, so I doubt it will be a mainstream product in the longrun. It will be a specialist premium option, whereas the standard, Pro/Pro Max will continue to be the more widely used devices I predict.

 

[Dave245]

I think a foldable will be interesting for Apple, expensive and very niche. I'm looking forward to seeing what they will offer, hopefully next year. I don't think it will sell as well as the slab iPhone's, Apple know this and over time the price will come down. After all it's Apple and of course people will buy it. So no I don't think the iPhone Fold will flop.

 

[Contact_Feanor]

Plastic screen, awkward aspect ratio, bulkier phone mode, small tablet screen size, complex hinge... — that’s not versatility, it’s compromise stacked on compromise.

first off, you continue to just enumerate compromises and ignore the point I obviously made that the number of compromises don't matter if it's better at a set of things. Second of all, you are now listing compromises that you know absolutely nothing about. What is the aspect ratio of the upcoming iPhone fold? how bulky is it? what is its screen size? what kind of hinge does it use? exactly. You're just blabbing fictions to support your point now.

 

[kamikazeeMC]

Why? This phone will be at the peak of non necessity luxury purchase. Because they can.

Being a non essential buy, if the device is convenient enough to accomplish the specific users tasks of phone and tablet, that's all that matters.

For me, even just flipping open to have photos and files open side by side to manage and sort would be nice. Why do I need to buy a whole dedicated tablet for that.

 

[ChrisMac47]

Forget a foldable ... the next big thing is a SMALL phone, say 5 inch screen, weighing less than 100g (3.5oz), three cameras and two day battery life. All that is technically possible and a small svelte device would set like hotcakes. The world is fed up of large slab phones, they are now a commodity not a luxury, and need to melt into our way of life.