Apple's First Foldable Displays Nearing Mass Production

[space808]

I think people need to learn that Oppo has already fixed the "crease problem".

Hint: It's not so much about the panel, but the hinge design. So, Samsung Display can't eliminate the crease, because it depends on the hinge design, whether it's an iPhone foldable or a Galaxy foldable.

 

[space808]

If they’re really planning to charge $3000, it better have literally zero crease. That price point commands perfection, period.

Perfection like the MBP notch? You got it.

 

[Farquar]

Solid ChatGPT response!

In no way was it ChatGPT at all. But I guess this is your way of not having any retort to facts.

 

[Farquar]

A product selling more than twice the ASP of the "typical" iPhone is going to have significantly more leeway than the thing selling around ASP (Air, Plus) or below ASP (mini). And that's before you get into the "halo product" advantages of having a super high-end and existing offerring that makes your previously most expensive offerings look cheaper in comparison.

Again, I don't think this is going to sell like gangbusters, but I suspect the "not a flop" threshold is way, way, lower than you think it is. At the end of the day Apple doesn't care about units sold but revenue produced.

But I guess we'll just have to wait and see who is right.

You might be right that the threshold is lower. It remains to be seen. But bare in mind, when a product performs poorly, Apple pulls people from those projects almost immediately. It means fewer updates, less specialized content, etc. The product may stick around (like vision pro) but becomes abandonware.

 

[switz]

Hope it is a success for Apple, but I am not in the market for any "fold" device.

 

[frownface]

Hope it is a success for Apple, but I am not in the market for any "fold" device.

Same, especially since i just got a 17 not that long ago. Plus the pricetag is going to be eyewatering.
But it's good to see something new; and innovations from those moonshots eventually trickle down to the basic phones.

 

[MalkavianLoner]

Yeah. Samsung nearing completion of scaling for apples new phone and screen would be a much better and accurate title.

Samsung makes so much of apples stuff I wonder how apple exists still after Steve Jobs, and then I meet an apple fan and discover the false image made for sales is the only image most people know about apple, not that it's just overpriced tech from five years ago being slapped with a sticker to claim the tech as Apple's.....

It's a real shame too.... The only inventive thing they made after Steve jobs death has been the ugly ass glow goggles they called their AR headsets that pretty much only got purchased by hardcore apple fans and youtubers, and half of the youtubers didn't even pay for theirs, they got them as promotional items. So overall it was a complete flop almost as bad as the tech they were trying to imitate, which is Googles glasses project. Which arguably was better in every way shape and especially in form. There's just no good use case for either product in today's world.

This is going to be funny when apple users get more of that commercial aesthetic pulled back as Samsung owners tell iPhone owners that they've had THESE BRAND NEW FEATURES for half a decade already AGAIN because we made their gorilla glass. The cameras. The internals down to the equivalence of the entire motherboard of the apple phone...... At this point it's almost illegal to call the iPhone an iPhone... If there were just two changes in two laws, minor ones at that. Then it would in fact be illegal to call the iPhone an apple product at all.... It would then have to be labeled as iPhone, BY SAMSUNG.

If only there were transparency in business transactions that affect the customers like buying a contract with a direct competitor to manufacture over 60% of the phone that apple makes the aluminum cover for, And puts the battery into. Then it's software that makes up the rest of the apple in any apple device now..... Apple is like the sega of electronics, sure they were awesome, once... After that they've mostly just been software that runs on everyone else's hardware.... From innovations to in the dust...

 

[snowatom]

Yeah. Samsung nearing completion of scaling for apples new phone and screen would be a much better and accurate title.
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I get where you’re coming from — and you’re not wrong. Apple absolutely relies on a global supply chain, and yes, companies like Samsung manufacture key components like displays and memory. That’s just how modern tech works — no major company builds everything in-house anymore.

But that doesn’t really tell the full story.

What Apple is actually good at isn’t just making individual components — it’s how they integrate everything. The hardware, software, and ecosystem are tightly controlled and designed to work seamlessly together. That’s something most competitors still struggle to match consistently.

iOS definitely isn’t perfect, and you’re right that it can feel a bit behind in certain areas (AI being a fair example lately). But in terms of stability, long-term updates, privacy focus, and overall user experience, Apple is still leading for a lot of people. It’s less about having every feature first, and more about making sure things “just work” reliably.

Also, calling iPhones “Samsung phones with a sticker” is a bit of a stretch. Apple designs its own industry-leading chips, controls the OS, and defines the entire user experience end-to-end. Samsung supplying components doesn’t make it a Samsung product — just like Intel making CPUs doesn’t make every laptop an Intel product.

And if we’re going down that road, it’s worth pointing out that Samsung doesn’t even run its own core OS — it builds on Android. So in that sense, they’re just as dependent on someone else’s platform as anyone else.

At the end of the day, everyone relies on each other in this industry. The difference is who actually brings it all together into a cohesive product — and that’s where Apple still stands out.