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Foldable iPad Pro and OLED iPad Air Expected in 2027, OLED iPad Mini to Launch in 2026
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I use my ipad strictly for drawing. I don't see a use for me to have a foldable. I think 12.9 or 13 is plenty enough size. Any bigger and I'd rather sit at my desk with my Wacom. I'd love to see foldable phones, but horizontally instead of the rumored vertical fold. I want it to fit in that weird tiny pocket on the right hand side of jeans!
As an artist, a foldable ipad pro worries me. The plastic screens they use in foldable devices don’t seem like the best surfaces to draw on. ✍🏼 🤔
don't want to be rude, but whoever created the concept render in the post must have highly questionable track record in UX design. what is depicted above is absolutely useless.
if you gonna lean forward to use your pencil/stylus on a flat surface, the folded up section will limit your movement and your hand will constantly bump into it - so you will not be able to make use of the entire flat surface, and let's just not talk about the other half of the screen that was folded up. whatever remains is about 35% of the work surface at best.
can't imagine any sane workflow that would make use of such an arrangement... oh wait, maybe the old DOS battle fleet game would be a perfect fit
if you gonna lean forward to use your pencil/stylus on a flat surface, the folded up section will limit your movement and your hand will constantly bump into it - so you will not be able to make use of the entire flat surface, and let's just not talk about the other half of the screen that was folded up. whatever remains is about 35% of the work surface at best.
can't imagine any sane workflow that would make use of such an arrangement... oh wait, maybe the old DOS battle fleet game would be a perfect fit
I sure wish that gradual realization included the iPhone Mini.
I'll take that bet and say Apple ups the refresh rate to 90hz on the non-Pro line.
and if your iPad Pro ran full fat MacOS and lasted two hours you wouldnt be happy either...
people whinge about Apple Vision Pro for the same reason.
there are limits on how much power you can store in a small/thin device and the thermal impacts.
perhaps by the time these devices ship, chips will be 1 or 2 nm and more efficient.
we've got years until possible release.
You should read an old book "How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry"
oh man, if you thought the AVP was expensive. Wait till you see the foldable 19" ipad pro.
That foldable screen better be waterproof to deal with the tears.
That foldable screen better be waterproof to deal with the tears.
Can someone explain to me what problem or need the foldable iPad solves? This is not a rhetorical question; I’m genuinely curious to know.
These are really great wonderful news! Finally Apple is walking the path to the foldable devices and these news (rumors or whatever you want to name them) just prove it! So people, get ready to have a foldable iPhone in your pocket in one or two years from now. Congratulations Apple!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Pffftt...
I will buy a new device when
1. My current device is DOA
2. I actually NEED (not just want) to replace the dead one
Computers, Phones, Tablets etc are tools, not fashion items as far as I am concerned.
And I honestly dont see me buying anything in the next 4 years or so.
I will buy a new device when
1. My current device is DOA
2. I actually NEED (not just want) to replace the dead one
Computers, Phones, Tablets etc are tools, not fashion items as far as I am concerned.
And I honestly dont see me buying anything in the next 4 years or so.
Looks like a foldable Apple device is definitely coming within the next four years. Thinking it will be iPad first and then a foldable iPhone. Slowly Apple is switching to OLED to all its devices. Waiting for OLEDs to come to the MacBook too
Problems with using an Apple Pencil with a foldable:
- Apple Pencils tips are softer than the surface of current glass iPads but harder than the soft plastic screens of all foldables.
- Thus the current Apple Pencils would scratch the plastic screens of foldables
- An Apple Pencil with a soft enough tip to NOT scratch the screen of a foldable would be less precise and much easier to damage
- The bending portion of any foldable screen will not be able to have an interrupted back surface so will have either a dent or a ridge
