Revolutionary is hindsight. Before the iPhone launched critics called it an overpriced touchscreen with no keyboard, no 3G no MMS no copy/paste and said it couldn’t compete with BlackBerry or Nokia. It only became obviously revolutionary after it proved itself.
The iPhone wasn’t the first touchscreen phone. I won’t name all the examples because you already know. What Apple was first to do was make the modern smartphone mainstream with a far better implementation. That’s exactly the point being made here. Success isn’t always about inventing a category it’s often about executing it so well that the mass market finally cares. So your criticism of the comparison actually reinforces it. Also opening with most people are bad at comparison while making an inaccurate claim that Apple was first to market with a touchscreen phone is quite amusing.
First, maybe cut back on the monsters.
FWIW, while I generally agree, the economy wasnt better back then for the average person. The “economy doing fine right now” bit masks that wealth inequality is literally at the worst it’s been since, well, basically Jim Crow. It’s worse than the gilded age. The robber barons have nothing on the tech barons of today.
You lose credibility the second you open with cut back on the Monsters.
Sure, but that’s when a foldable needs that increased surface area, to dissipate the increased heat generated by its big internal display, especially when it’s at full brightness. When a foldable is closed, the internal display is off, and so the amount of heat the phone generates is pretty much the same as a non-foldable slab phone. The back of the half that contains the logic board and the other circuitry (mainly radio) which generate half or more of the heat (depending on how bright the screen is) is always exposed to the air, folded or not, so it's always able to shed that heat like a slab phone does. There’s also a graphite sheet that runs between the two halves which distributes heat more evenly, including delivering much of the heat to the hinge, which acts as a big heat sink.
This I kinda have to agree. While the time is nigh to release, financially, it's gonna be rough for people, I myself, feel like people are broke too...
The market? Well if my math is correct, if Apple sells 10 million iPhone Folds at $2000, they make $20 Billion. No one would pass that up!
Fair point. So far as I've ever learned with Apple, keep away from Rev A devices. Ultimately like you, I just don't know what this phone is truly conveniencing, enhancing or solving. A micro iPad when... you've got a video to watch, or document you want to edit, with same paltry battery as other iPhones?
Won't be good for video because of the aspect ratio. Looking at the unfolded size, a widescreen video will have no more space on the unfolded display as it would on a Pro Max. It will be better for web pages, some kinds of documents, and photos...things that reflow to any aspect ratio. But...marginally so compared to say, a Pro Max.The iPad mini is still too small for good iPad multitasking, and this is even smaller. So the answer to what this is accomplishing or solving is very, very small.
From my perspective and waiting until Foldable 2 next year:
People arent allowed to speculate on what is literally a rumor? Like, you know what site we’re on, yeah?
Sure you can speculate on a rumor. But when you question something that has been corroborated by multiple separate reliable sources, which have previously proven to be as good as Apple saying it themselves, you're going to have to do better than "Nah".
Fairly certain that particular rumor only has one source, who’s been wrong before…
