…I’m not saying a foldable makes them archaic individually; I’m talking about having to carry both for various on-the-go-needs is obsolete with foldables (especially use cases best served by iPhone + iPad Mini combinations)—that’s an invaluable convenience that has a premium price to it that is in the benefit of Apple accommodating for increased profits.Not to dampen your enthusiasm, Sir, nor to correct or undermine your perspective. As you mentioned, you have a lot of devices in your hands. Yes, it may seem that owning both an iPad and an iPhone is becoming archaic—but is it really? Is it worth it for Apple to enter that market? In my opinion, doing so could threaten the survival of their flagship iPhones and the iPad family. Apple has always been focused on diversifying its products, ensuring each has a distinct purpose while remaining seamlessly interconnected. A foldable MacBook, for example, could be a promising venture—innovative in design, functionality, and aesthetics. However, introducing a foldable phone that bridges the gap between an iPad and an iPhone could lead to a chaotic overlap that disrupts their current ecosystem.
I and several prosumer segments would still need an iPad Pro regardless for various use cases that doesn’t cannibalize the iPad Pro for example. Same thing with the Vision Pro.
Devices are meant to be useful for people’s computing lifestyles with manufacturers offering options to accommodating varying needs in which versatility is a premium/luxury Apple already accommodates offering prosumer, no-compromises hardware across several categories
A foldable phone and even a foldable Macbook more than anything warrants a more expensive device with even higher margins Apple is to gain accommodating bought by segments that would find the convenience and versatility worthwhile to pay more money than existing options.
A foldable iPhone in the matter other platforms already accommodate is gonna cost much more than their existing flagship tier phone: More than buying that pbije and an iPad Mini actually.
So I don’t follow what disruption you’re talking about.
That’s not an individual’s problem or concern regardless.
You’re talking as if you’re a stakeholder or an anti-technologist invested in status quo insisting how things are today is enough or is the best path of highest profit.
Disrupting their existing status quo can very much be a good thing by offering more sophisticated and more versatile devices via foldables that also gives them hope of more profit if they take off—especially the ones that will be a tier above their existing flagships by design.
The iPhone itself was that by consolidating/distrusting the AirPod business.
If foldable iPhones disrupt their iPad Mini business, Apple stands to gain a lot more money than not.
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