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Foldable iPhone Production Stalls Amid Hinge Issues

Hopefully Apple will be able to resolve the issues quickly and the final product will be very durable. Repairs will be ultra expensive.
 
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I don’t think Apple will release a foldable anytime soon. For the same reason they haven’t released one in the past 10 years while all the other big smartphone manufacturers have. This.
 
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The Galaxy Fold is known to have this issue.

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I a, shocked - shocked - to find that there is gambling taking place in this establishment folding a display screen may cause problems.
 
goonie4life9 said:
Folks, don't fall for the tutti-frutti, phoney-baloney, plastic banana, good time, rock-n-roll Apple PR "leaks," designed to build hype. The design has been finalized and locked-in for at least a year. There are always unique issues that appear when manufacturing at scale. Apple likes to spin these into "pushing the cutting edge" to astroturf hype. This is nothing more than working-through typical manufacturing adjustments.
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Yeah sometimes looking too closely is not really sensible...

I am sure there's 1000s of hardware and software issues to be solved, looking over the engineers shoulder every second of their day is too much
"Alert: Engineer screwed up the software, has an error!"
"Alert: Engineer fixed error after an hour pulling their hair"
etc...
 
Johns12 said:
Sure, don't bother going to the moon or Mars. Don't bother trying to make batteries more efficient. Don't bother working on building homes with 3d printers. Don't bother making the phones we have faster while still controlling heat. We shouldn't bother doing any new tech. Got it.
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All those things are inherently useful, this isn't.

Jobs wouldn't, just like he shunned lots of other trends that were useless. Ever since OLED tech first came out in the 2010s and by mere nature of how it worked, it's flexible and rollable - companies have been trying to find a way to shove that into a product - none have worked. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
 
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bmot said:
I don’t think Apple will release a foldable anytime soon. For the same reason they haven’t released one in the past 10 years while all the other big smartphone manufacturers have. This.
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LOL, yeah every source is wrong, YOU are the one who has the facts lol. Its coming out this year, deal with it.
 
testcard said:
The hinge is always going to be the Achilles heel of a foldable device.
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I mean...


Also, the Fold 7 hinge has been stressed tested at 500,000 folds...or 100 folds a day for ~13 years.

Things are made of stuff and stuff wears out. But as far as hinge durability is concerned, I wouldn't worry.
 
klasma said:
NoThe apps would have to rewritten to take that into account. An iOS app and its sibling iPadOS app don't expect to be running on the same device with the same data. (When running on different devices, they use iCloud or other services to sync their local state at certain points, but they each have their own separate local state.) The iPadOS app would have to be able to restore its state from the saved state of the iOS version, and vice versa. In the general case, these are really like two distinct apps. You can't expect them to turn into each other just because the user unfolded or folded the phone. They also have to be separate instances because iOS and iPadOS do not provide identical APIs. The runtime environment under iOS and iPadOS behaves differently. While you can run an iOS-only app under iPadOS, that app thinks that it's runing under iOS (being iOS-only, there's nothing else that it would be capable of running under). An app instance is either iOS or iPadOS, it can't be both.
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This is not how iOS and iPadOS apps work at all.
Again, do you have an iPad? Open an app in full screen. The Discord app, for example.
When is in full screen, there is a sidebar on the left showing you all of your servers and channels, and then all of the content on the right.
Shrink that window small enough, and the sidebar disappears and it reverts to the iPhone layout.

A folding iPhone would work in the same way, absolutely no need for two completely different instances of the app in question.
Apple has literally been doing this with the iPad for years.
 
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t0rqx said:
The hinge will be released with the flaws. New buyers are BETA testers.
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First two generations of a new Apple product is always that. Reason being that by the time the first gen product hits the market, the second gen is almost finalized with very little consumer feedback making it into the device.
 
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dannys1 said:
All those things are inherently useful, this isn't.

Jobs wouldn't, just like he shunned lots of other trends that were useless. Ever since OLED tech first came out in the 2010s and by mere nature of how it worked, it's flexible and rollable - companies have been trying to find a way to shove that into a product - none have worked. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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You're opinion that a folding phone isn't useful, is most certainly your personal opinion. It has no basis in fact, but still, you're entitled to your opinion. I own a Fold 7 and find it very useful to the point that I will probably never buy a slab phone again. Also, Jobs shunned many changes to products the Apple has since implemented and done very well with.
 
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