Foldable iPhone Could Cost $2,400

[Abstract]

No matter what any analyst says about high costs due to thinness or hinge, there is no way a hinge is going to be high end enough to justify the premium Apple will charge over Samsung.

They’ll price this thing as high as they can get away with, and simply because they can.

 

[CocktailHour]

Yes, predictably expensive at first, but I won't buy it until the 3rd generation, when the prices are lower. When the iPhone first came out, I told clients to wait for the 3rd gen before buying.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously said he expects the iPhone Fold to cost between $2,000 and $2,500, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects it to be somewhere around $2,000.

My whole ass MacBook Pro costs less.

 

[Macalway]

Talk about throwing cold water on my tech lust. Cruel.

 

[wikiverse]

If the camera is better I'll buy. But doesn't look possible.

If you care about the camera and want a 'better' one, just buy a Canon or Sony Mirrorless camera for less money than this.

Phone cameras are never getting better than now without getting thicker. More pixels doesn't add more information, it just reduces the amount of light per pixel, they need a bigger sensor. bigger sensor = wider and thicker lens.

All improvements to phone cameras at this point are going to largely just be software, or things that most people will never notice or care about - like a global shutter.

 

[PhilaScott]

Oh, for the love of all that is holy.... WTF? You can get a decked-out MacBook Pro for that money. AND I learned a LONG time ago, NEVER be a first adopter. NEVER.

 

[Palliser]

Our most foldable phone ever

 

[jole]

Phone cameras are never getting better than now without getting thicker

Somehow they have, every year

 

[youteonduty]

if there a sock with the foldable you can have my money

 

[vantelimus]

"I want a $2400 iPhone", said no one, ever.

You might be surprised. Personally, I'm dubious about whether I would want a folding phone. I'd have to see it first. I learned 40 years ago not poo-poo new form factors or UI models just because of the price. People panned Macintosh because it was more expensive than a PC, the form factor was alien, and it had a "wimp" UI. Besides, there are a lot of people for whom $2400 isn't a stretch and a lot more who would make the stretch if it piqued their interest.

 

[yadmonkey]

Aside from making calls, what's the difference between a foldable iPhone and a foldable iPad Mini?

 

[Art Mark]

Here's the thing...it's a miniature computer, capable of almost any computing task. You think it should cost less than any other computer that is mobile and can do what it can do? I think we have missed a beat in all this tech. There was a time when a device with less than a 100th of these capabilities, and decidedly NOT mobile would cost 10X that, NOT that long ago. I don't think it's outrageous.

 

[jashworth03]

Aside from making calls, what's the difference between a foldable iPhone and a foldable iPad Mini?

One fits in your front pocket and one doesn’t.

 

[vantelimus]

Lmfao how does Apple keep missing? Where is the mass market for this? Does no one at Apple interact with non-millionaires?

A better question for you: How has Apple maintained such a market-share lead if they, as you say, keep missing or only make products for millionaires?

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

Beta users for 2400$
Sounds good to Apple

 

[Stella]

The graphic reminds me of my old Psion and HP100…

Psions were great devices.

Shame the company bailed on PDAs.

 

[platinumaqua]

It's less about the MSRP these days but how much per month they're paying in monthly installments. That's how Apple got away with the recent price increases.

 

[JSDK]

Did anyone doubt that the price would go up? It's Apple - of course it's going to be expensive.

It's an iPhone and an iPad in one. The price must be the same as if you chose to buy them separately.

 

[257Loner]

"I want a $2400 iPhone", said no one, ever.

Some people want $100,000 cars. 🚗

 

[jchap]

Lmfao how does Apple keep missing? Where is the mass market for this? Does no one at Apple interact with non-millionaires?

As with the Vision Pro, I don't think that Apple is targeting the average "mass-market" consumer with this one.

 

[akula1488]

at that price, it really need to have bold features like orange color or plateau so it screams iPhone FOLD that people can recognize it across the room

 

[jchap]

Oh, for the love of all that is holy.... WTF? You can get a decked-out MacBook Pro for that money. AND I learned a LONG time ago, NEVER be a first adopter. NEVER.

I was an early adopter of the iPad 1st gen. That wasn't so bad. Of course, it was rather primitive compared to the upgraded versions that came after it, but it served its purpose well for some time and I enjoyed it.

 

[akula1488]

Beta users for 2400$
Sounds good to Apple

might as well buy iPad mini with cellular and iPhone Air/Pro

 

[Agent007]

lol @ the iSheep and their "folding phones are the future" fallacy. Reality check: folding phones are a low single digit % of the smartphone market after nearly 7 years of folding Android phones despite Android having over half the world's phone market. And you think Current Apple is actually going to optimize the use of the screens? Look at the "iPad apps run on Apple Silicon" situation for a preview of iPhold UI.

I think the "slab" is peak smartphone. ~15 years ago there was a lot of speculation that the "clamshell" laptop design would lose the keyboard/trackpad in favor of a touch screen. "Imagine the screen real estate!" But very few people want that. People want a physical keyboard enough to pay $250 to put one on an iPad.

 

[racer1441]

Just bring it out already. I’ll pay $3k at this point.