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Apple Researching Stronger Displays for Foldable Devices to Resist Cracking
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Funny you say this as I remember the same type of comments when Apple were making and promoting small phones, and most Apple lovers were rubbishing the large screen phones from people like Samsung.
Others are the actual innovators. It's easy to sit back and copy what someone else does and make improvements.
When was the last time a genuinely new product came from Apple?
Everyone who uses it loves it. Luke always you're going to do a 180° once it has an apple logo on it.
like every other innovation until Apple copies it.
The big game changer of the original iPhone was the use of a glass screen. It beat every last plastic touch screen by such a huge factor in usability that nobody in their right mind would want to use one of the pre-iPhone touch screens nowadays anymore.
To go back to something flexible enough to fold double in a tight enough radius to fit inside a folding phone, would mean it cannot be as hard a surface as glass or their new "ceramic" thing anymore.
And anything not a hard and scratch resistant as the currently in use glass would instantly be a huge step back. It's the hard flat surface that makes an iPhone or an iPad great to use.
I trust Apple is just filing patents in this, not planning to bring anything so excessively immature as a folding phone to market.
To go back to something flexible enough to fold double in a tight enough radius to fit inside a folding phone, would mean it cannot be as hard a surface as glass or their new "ceramic" thing anymore.
And anything not a hard and scratch resistant as the currently in use glass would instantly be a huge step back. It's the hard flat surface that makes an iPhone or an iPad great to use.
I trust Apple is just filing patents in this, not planning to bring anything so excessively immature as a folding phone to market.
Just like Android manufacturers will do when Apple releases it in a better form factor.
Same as it ever was.
Android manufacturers rushing out alpha and beta products just to be 'first', inevitably they don't get any traction until Apple steps on to the field and does it properly.
Yes, yes, yes. I think there are a lot of people on here that are simply too young to know we’ve already gone down this path with plastic covered screens and moved away from them for a reason (several reasons). I would rather companies work on finding ways to get a folding device to work where two separate glass screens fold together glass edge to glass edge, sort of like the devices shown on HBO’s WestWorld. That would be an implementation that eliminates all the issues that plastic screens have. You’d still need folding OLED panels, as you would have to have the connecting edges wrap down around the edge so you could make the two screens appear as one when unfolded, but that should be easier to do given how most panels are already folded at the edges now.
Samsung released a folding phone that wasn't ready. It was rightfully lambasted by everyone, not just Apple fans, because it was a complete disaster. The relaunched product is what they should have released in the first place, even if it took longer to get there.
Doing something first and doing something right are two different things. Apple wasn't the first to make a portable digital music player, smart phone, tablet, or smartwatch but they are arguably the first to make something good enough to be wildly successful.
I hate foldable phones. It's just too many screens you will never use and a very massive/heavy device. Apple will probably never release something like this, just like it never did with laptop/tablet hybrids, but instead doing something that complements phone/tablet experience.
Option to unfold your phone. And simple you are consuming a different type of media
I think they are leading others (you know who they are) down the garden path on this. I think they have no intention of making a folding glass that cracks and the cover "fills the gaps". But others will spend millions to try and copy them. Great diversion.
Homepod was first. iPad Was first, unibody MacBook was first, iPhone (obviously)
Some people just need an iPad to fit in their pockets!
Let's not forget the cries against stylus use as well. It's amazing how incredibly short sighted people are in this day and age. But I guess it's to be expected when most likely none of them have even used a foldable phone. I can sort of understand some of the inane comments, but stuff like not being able to see any use for a folding screen is just straight, well I won't say it but it's pretty obvious. In case anyone else just cannot for the life of them figure out simple physics go try and stuff an ipad mini into your front pocket.
Foldable phones are going to be ubiquitous one day, and not that far away, even in spite of all the luddites and non visionaries. Thankfully Apple is smart enough not to listen to these people and produced a larger iPhone, incorporated stylus use and my prediction will be they have a foldable display in 2-3 years.
As somebody who has the fold 2 it is certainly not a gimmick.. Its great to have a foldable device which is like no other device on the Market. Its a break through in future technology and pushing tech forward
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The Fold 2 pretty much feels like glass once you take off the screen protector. No it's not very scratch resistant, but that will come with time. In some ways it's more durable because of the screen being hidden inside when folded. I won't deny that having a scratch resistant screen isn't an advantage, but it affects some of us less than others and IMO the ability to have an ipad mini sized screen in a smartphone size is way more of an advantage.
Option? How does one fit an unfolded phon in their pocket? It’s also either really thick to use folded, or requires to hands unfolded.
There’s a reason these things haven’t been too successful.