Apple Working on 20.5-Inch All-Screen Foldable Notebook for 2025

[Ludajim]

You are a person. You are not people. Drawing is not what the iPad is mostly used for. It is mostly used for video, as Apple has said, and as users widely acknowledge. Games come in second. Productivity apps somewhere behind that. Drawing/writing are a niche use case.

Thanks for clarify that I am person, not people. I was starting to doubt myself. Don’t know what the statistics are, as apple doesn’t release those numbers, as you may know. Even if drawing/writing is a niche, it’s a its large enough for the Apple Pencil to exist. Seeing as how they featured apples pencil’s hover enhancements for the latest iPad pros as one of the very few upgrades, it’s obvious that they know artists are a major percentage of their bottom line—it’s who they expect to come out and convince to upgrade. You might be right that The iPad line in general may be for video consumption. But the pro line exists for us professionals who are out here being professional. Use case that.

 

[Ludajim]

People don't need paid apps to do what they do on iPad. Which is streaming video, for the most part. Followed by gaming, with producitivity and drawing lagging way way behind. This has been demonstrated many times. Come on. You can do a lot better than "I draw, therefor everyone draws on iPad". No. "Everyone" watches streaming video on iPad. That's like 90% of the devices use. The remaining 10% scrambles for the rest.

Paid apps along with apple’s subscription services is Tim cook’s golden goose.this hasnt been Steve jobs’s apple for while. People are buying paid apps, plain and simple. Most company’s are turning to monthly subscription models, and they’re getting away with it b/c people need these apps to make use of their iPads for work. Do better.

 

[Ludajim]

Did you even read the thread? Or any thread about any rumored foldable device? 90% of people are against Apple doing anything in this space.

Even if you’re right, That leaves 10%. What you’re forgetting is that for one of the top companies, globally, that 10 percent is a huge market for apple’a bottom line. I don’t know anyone personally that’s ever purchased a Mac Pro, yet it continues to exist without upgrades year after year. same logic would apply to a folding iPad, which would likely have a wider audience than a Mac Pro.

 

[Ludajim]

Unfortunately it doesn't practically make any sense, even though I bring the idea up all the time. In theory it would be nice if you basically had a 'skin' for macOS that made it look and act very similarly to iPadOS in its tablet mode, but in reality it would end up being disjointed, messy and likely confusing for many users who would have to essentially know how to use two different OSes on the same device and context-switch between them depending on the situation.

Right now,some folk use sidecar/lunadisplay/duet to use their iPad and Magic Keyboard as the display/input devices for their Mac mini. It’d bc cool if they created a portable Mac mini or MacBook w/out a display that you could dock your iPad onto for when you need to acces Mac OS. We wouldn’t have to purchase a whole MacBook, and they’re still be able to milk us into buying both iPads and Macs

 

[Johnny Jackhammer]

I would rather see a radical macbook design where we didn't have to hunch over like a caveman to use it. My kids' postures are ruined for life because the school requires chromebooks and tiny desks.

 

[jamface]

Those people need big screens. Not folding devices. And no, the fact that it folds does not suddenly make it more portable, and simultaneously convince these folks to spend a premium on devices this large.

Does it make it less portable though?

I certainly find my Air easier to carry around when it’s folded.

 

[_Spinn_]

I can’t imagine trying to type on that thing. I don’t get the point of it.

 

[kyykesko]

I bet that was just half of the story. They'll slap on a $900 stand and call that the new iMac, now with on-screen keyboard only! That's probably the only thing I can think of that would make less sense than that monstrosity.

I've bought three iPads in my life. I've never used the on-screen keyboard on any of them to type more than two words at a time. You can't use it for more than that and stay sane. Please, stop pushing useless crap like that.