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Foldable iPhone and iPad to Enter Production Next Year, Analyst Says
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There was once a dream that was Apple. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would begin to fail at EVERYTHING when once it prevailed at EVERYTHING that was in the same space... it became so fragile and being innovative was of a bygone era. And I fear that it will not survive the foldable space winter as every manufacturer has before it. 😂 To me, foldables is a gimmick and is niche. I am not a fan of more moving parts in tech that in all likelihood are peoples daily driver. Apple never used to fall for this type of "keeping up with the Jones'". I'll give you an example, its 2025 and we still don't have a capacitive sensing MBP or MBA, and I'm OK with that, we don't need it (barring the iPads. Talk of capacitive sensing in the MBs has been around well before the birth of the iPad). Juts don't do it Apple. We don't need to hear it from the disgruntled, disillusioned and unhinged Apple and Samsung Soy Bois.
I'll take crease over having to carry two devices just to read pdfs.
It seems you don't. But a lot of people do, and Apple wants to keep them in the herd.
VR never failed, they just marketed a Mac Pro-priced device to a general audience. Its actually found a lot of use in a Mac Pro-level niche.
I remain unconvinced the car was ever anything more than a cover-up story for development of Vision Pro features. Pretty suss that once the Vision Pro made it to market and could harvest anonymous user data the car program shut down.
I've not seen a failure in AI. They never set out to build Skynet like their competitors but rather bake it into the OS. Rewrite? Helpful at summarising lengthy text outputs. Image Playground? Does what it says on the tin. Visual Intelligece? Actually quite helpful.
Apple have not, to my knowledge ever stopped making reliable consumer electronics that lasts for a decade or more of prolonged use. Apple get some stick for 'planned obsolesence' but I can still interface an iPhone 6 to an iPhone 16.
Same here, but some people just get a new phone every couple years anyway.
Think executives who got them paid by their company.
By the way, you wouldn't be an early adopter, the tech has been out for years now, Apple is probably waiting because they'll get much more attention than rivals, especially on durability (I can already see a "scandal" of some sort coming). And yes, the durability is unimpressive...
Absolutely not. Buying a headset from another manufacturer doesn't risk people leaving the ecosystem and taking their sweet service revenues with them. Buying a phone from someone else does. Apple could sell iphones at a loss and still make money from the users, because service revenues have the highest margins. Just like how game consoles work. That's why scrapping small phones for not having enough profit was a totally idiotic move. Long term, Apple's best move is to saturate the market with all kinds of devices, and sacrifice some margin on hardware sales for service revenue growth. But Apple has an old ceo nearing retirement, whose bonuses are tied to short term performance.
I meant in regards to foldables being more of a niche market due to appeal and cost. They will be super expensive no doubt and the majority I doubt, will be interested, but they will have a healthy market on a smaller scale IMHO.
To you. To me with a iPhone mini an iPhone 16 is already pushing it. Now a iPhone mini but foldable damn I’ll drop 2500 on that.
THAT
Apple 2025,...always late to the party, and ridiculously overpriced with bad customer service policies.
I’m not bothered about the crease. Foldable phones have not sold well so far because they’re too expensive for most people.
I have a hard time believing the market for this is greater than an iPhone mini. I guess we will see but personally I’m not interested.
I have absolutely zero interest in a mini sized iPhone. I am very interested in a foldable however.
For the foldable, it depends upon price of course, but I’m not interested in the mini even despite its much lower price.
Based on Apple's pricing history that is not correct. It costs $400 to upgrade any iPhone, iPad, or MacBook from 256GB to 1TB so your example should be $2400 for the 1TB iPhold. That would be ~$2140 and ~$2570 respectively with tax (no reason to sneakily emphasize pricing by only mentioning "with tax" on the 1TB version.
Of course Apple may start the iPhold at 512GB to reduce the pricing sting, just like they started the Pro Max at 256GB when they raised its price, which means $2K for the 512GB and $2200 for the 1TB.
But will the iPhold get an M# and Stage Manager or an A# and Splitscreen windowing.
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