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Foldable iPad Now in 'Intensive Development,' Could Be Announced as Soon as Next Year
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If Apple did a voip app for iPad I’d def ditch my 13PM & go for iPad mini for my mobile needs. Aren’t current voip solutions totally insecure ie google track everything you do etc? I wouldn’t trust those companies with sms related content from my bank / work etc.
Also UK data sim deals for ipads are so expensive compared to iPhone, sucks big time yet same data load I presume.
But...the iPad Mini is already pocketable
Hell it's the reason the tablet is primarily used by pilots and EMS because of how easily pocketable it is. Making it foldable doesn't add anything except a giant crease that won't go away, and a more eyewatering price tag that will cost as much as a Mac (which is more reason why I keep saying iPads outside of the vanilla ones are redundant over just getting a Macbook Air nowadays)
Except the fact you need to use an iPhone with said iPad Mini because Apple software restricts it from acting as a phone since if it could be used as one it would cannibalize iPhone sales.
My Macbook Pro has replaced everything my iPad used to do nowadays since it has a much longer battery life than an iPad, and does a lot more than an iPad. Hell I'd rather use my iPhone over an iPad nowadays at this point since iPadOS always gets left behind in terms of software updates compared to iOS.
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For a very long time now there has been projector screens that roll up/down on demand to fit into a very compact space when not in use but provide a very large screen when one wants to use it. Generally people with such setups love a very tangible problem through their lens solved by that technology.
And there are already physical computer screens that fold... not quite TV (unless you mean small TV) to iPad size but fairly sizable screens for laptop users who want/need more screen R.E. than a single 16" screen.
Ugly monstrosities? Yes! But apparently there are markets for such monsters. Why if single, finite screens are good enough for everyone? Because the second half of that question is NOT true.
If we step back and pay attention, we see that the entire tech world is trying to find a wide variety of ways to grow screens we use: folds, rolls, virtual. And even we clearly want them. How many times have you read about the great desire for an iMac 27" resurrection... typically paired with wants for a 30" and 32" too? Why isn't the 24" good enough for all iMac fans?
Why is the next phone predicted to grow the phone screen even more if the current size is perfection... as were smaller screens (proclaimed) before it... as was 4" when Apple clung to 4"... as was 3.5" when Apple clung to 3.5"?
What is one of the major appeals of Vpro? Much larger screens that can hit the road with users minus the weight of carrying television-sized physical screens with those users.
Pretty much everybody is working on ways to put bigger screens in our hands. Folds, rolls & virtual are just 3 paths to the same destination. However, even the magical slab is not immune to continuing to grow screen size.
Why are they all doing that? Because the market wants it... as we wanted phablets (only after Apple actually offered them of course) and we want 27" or larger iMacs and we want a 17" MBpro resurrection, etc. You don't see very much "I want smaller"... and if you do and it's smaller than what Apple offers now, it will likely be ridiculed by Apple fans. Even we illustrate the desire trend... we just won't acknowledge appreciation for it until Apple has one for sale. And then- I confidently suspect- it will be "shut up and take my money" as it is all of the many times before when "we" saw no point in solutions in search of problems and/or outright hated "the abominations..." until Apple launched their version of the same.
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It doesn’t help if it’s affordable when the quality and design is meh.
I want an Apple Watch with watchOS that folds out to an iPhone running iOS...
... that folds out to an iPad running iPadOS ...
... that folds out to a MacBook Lead running macOS
... that folds out to an iPad running iPadOS ...
... that folds out to a MacBook Lead running macOS
I’m sure that Apple will be able to turn it into a Dynamic Fault Line that will show you sports results and whatnot.
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Most of my financial services wont work with a VOIP number. My two investment firms, personal bank, two of my four credit cards, and my 401k handler want a real non-voip number for text verification.
Yes SMS sucks for 2nd factor, but most large US banks don't give you a choice.
If "intensive" development is anything like Apple Car or Vision Pro, it will be available in 2035, or even never.
But I can fold my iPad now. Just not more than once.
But I can fold my iPad now. Just not more than once.
I thought many of you were ridiculing Samsung's iteration? People who have never used foldable were just assuming that they would suck. I have used one; it is far from perfect, but you have to respect Samsung's audacity to make something new. I really hope Apple's foldable is great.
a foldable Tablet makes even less sense considering everyone has a phone, so why / when would you need for your tablet to be smaller? if anything I would want to be able to make my Phone bigger (when needed)
why does everyone always want to get more work done?
I suggest that too much work is being done to no one's benefit.
I suggest that too much work is being done to no one's benefit.
Can't wait the day Apple offers foldable to see all those fold sh*t talkers jump the bandwagon. LOL
Foldables are ofc niche devices, I've been on one for a year (Fold 4), it's been great. I am back on iPhone just because I cannot track my Airpods without iPhone or iPad (never had one).
Foldables are ofc niche devices, I've been on one for a year (Fold 4), it's been great. I am back on iPhone just because I cannot track my Airpods without iPhone or iPad (never had one).
I’m curious. Something the size of a very small tablet that can unfold to be a much larger tablet? Yes I would buy this provided quality was good. The iPad mini is my preferred tablet size but sometimes I want something bigger and working regularly with more than one iPad is annoying.
Apple is starting with a larger low volume device because that will be much easier to develop and once they work out all the details I’m sure it will come to iPhones too.
Apple is starting with a larger low volume device because that will be much easier to develop and once they work out all the details I’m sure it will come to iPhones too.
You can fold it more than once. You just can’t unfold it back.
Only thing that I’ve found off putting is the crease that gets even worse over time. It’s a deal breaker for me
Help me out here… you own a iPhone and iPad, yet… you claim it seeks to solve problems that don’t really exist?
Well, that‘s the point of a foldable phone… it transforms into a tablet. It‘s as if Apple folks has to see it for themselves to buy into it until then its a hard pass for them.
I’d like a bigger phone that was also usable in landscape. That what I hoped the larger iPhones would be, but the big phones continue to be portrait only devices from a software perspective.
Not sure I see the point in a foldable iPad.
A foldable phone makes more sense to me and I would probably bite on something like that.
I toyed with my cousin's Fold. It wasn't as bad as I thought other than I'm not a fan of Android OS
A foldable phone makes more sense to me and I would probably bite on something like that.
I toyed with my cousin's Fold. It wasn't as bad as I thought other than I'm not a fan of Android OS