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Apple's First Foldable iPhone Estimated to Cost Nearly Twice as Much as iPhone 16 Pro Max

Sadly I will pay for one because I have been waiting for Apple to jump into the foldable landscape.

My only hope is they can make it more durable and resistant to water to be closer to todays iPhones and the big worry is still how a fingernail can ruin the screen, Jerry Rig will say scratch at a level 0 with deeper grooves at a level 0 lol. My 16 Pro Max has tons of micro scratches on it already and this glass is supposed to be resistant.
 
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Interesting that Apple is finally jumping into foldable phones, but I honestly don’t see the point. Foldables have always felt more like a gimmick than a real necessity. More moving parts mean more chances for something to break, and there’s still the issue of screen creases. And now they’re asking $2,300 for this? Hard pass.
 
Fuzzball84 said:
But those laptop batteries were made by a contractor

The butterfly keyboard was a redesign by Apple itself
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Again, never said Apple was perfect. And personally speaking, I'd rather Apple push to improve stuff that is "good enough" even if it results in a clunker or two. But if that one example completely negates everything else Apple does in your mind, that's your prerogative. I'd still argue that Apple usually gets it right, and I suspect they will with foldables too.
 
IMO the only fold that makes sense is 3 panel folds, like the Huawei Mate XT. Basically a 10” iPad to go.

Not really interested in the square aspect ratio.
 
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The foldable hype is overrated. Samsung and others have foldable phones on the market for a couple of years now. But you hardly ever see someone using them.

I think Apple releasing such a phone it’s just like another Apple Vision Pro moment, they tell the world we can do it as well. Just to stay on par.
 
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Foldable iPhone will be an epic failure! Also repairing them will be impossible.
 
The high cost tells me that this is more a foot in the door to foldables rather than a plan to sell a lot. Sometimes when you have a new product new need to move from beta testing to a larger user base but you're not quite ready for mass marketing. This way they get feedback while also working to improve the costs and quality for a later mass market offering.
 
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thebeans said:
Yea, if it has an iPad mini size screen and another screen and the folding hardware and bigger battery etc., there is NO WAY for it to be the size and weight of a Pro Max. Simply not possible.
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Beans, I'm afraid it is possible, i even gave you the folding phone (Oppo Find N5) as a reference point. This phone is the exact same size and weight, has a larger battery, iPad mini size screen as-well as a second screen for under £1,400. In fact Oppo have said they could make it thinner but cant at the moment because of the USB C port.
 
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JohnC1959 said:
The high cost tells me that this is more a foot in the door to foldables rather than a plan to sell a lot. Sometimes when you have a new product new need to move from beta testing to a larger user base but you're not quite ready for mass marketing. This way they get feedback while also working to improve the costs and quality for a later mass market offering.
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That can't possible be correct. I have been told repeatedly on MacRumors that Apple thought the Vision Pro was going to immediately be the next iPhone and that hubris is the only reason they priced it how they did. You mean to tell me pricing a state-of-the-art new computing device higher than the average American's monthly take-home pay might've been an intentional strategy to limit sales while they work to get the technology to a place that is acceptable to average users? What's next? You going to tell me Apple overcharges for RAM and disk space? That's just crazy talk. 😂🤣😂
 
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Ming-Chi Kuo predicted that the first foldable iPhone would be priced between $2,000 and $2,500
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With this pricing, it should prove popular amongst owners of the Apple Vision Pro and Pro Display XDR.
 
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Apple iPhone Excelsior Deluxe

We are so excited to announce the latest iPhone.
Available from $ 2,999,999,999

We are so excited to see what billionaires do with iPhone 😂
 
I can't help but wonder with those price ceilings they keep pushing, and upgrade enthusiasm already flagging whether they may be reckoning with a two thousand dollar iFlop
 
I have never wanted anything less than a multi-thousand dollar phone that cannot be made shock proof from fairly typical drops.

Good luck selling these Tim ‘Veblen Dreams’ Cook.
 
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I want a foldable flip style iPhone like my Motorola Razr 2024. Foldable book style phones are just stupid. The phones are no smaller than regular phone and fold open to a smallish tablet with a bizarre aspect ratio.

Marques Brownlee highlights this concern with even the best and newest book style foldables. Really I think the point of a foldable is to have an ultra small phone that opens up to a normal sized large phone. I don’t want a big phone that folds open into a smallish awkward sized square tablet.

 
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I've never got this form factor. The fold would irritate me no end, and the main reason I might want it would be to make video bigger. As they are close to square though, half the screen would be black bars. Oh, one other use case for me. I don't like photo editing with Lightroom on the phone. If it opened up to the iPad view that would be nice. Not $2k nice though and the fold would still bother me. Better to have 2 devices that cost less than this one combined.
 
jamezr said:
foldables have been on the market for years already......Apple is following the market...not innovating.
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Innovating doesn’t mean making it up from scratch, it means making it better. Most (or maybe all) of Apple’s major successes have been entering markets that already existed but doing it better so that it becomes mainstream.
They don’t always make it significantly better though, once in a while they just have to react to the market forces or sometimes they just try their hand at a new product category to add to their ecosystem. We’ll see with foldables.
 
Naraxus said:
Greedy or not it's the truth. When Google, Samsung, Xiomi or any of the other also-rans make anywhere close to $70b in revenue then call it competition.

Til then it's just Apple and the waysides.
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Well those others (famous words where you’re probably familiar with) hold the cards. It ain’t greedy Apple.

Money can fly away quickly especially when you’re years behind.
 
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