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Hands-On With a Rough iPhone Fold Mockup
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I believe they mean it will flop 10x worse than the iPhone Air
Looks annoyingly wide in folded mode, but I have gone from not interested at all to intrigued. The other main brands with their narrow designs that fold out into an enormous square don't do anything for me, but this is at least in the right direction.
The crease/invisible crease is what's going to make or break this for me personally. I'm too OCD to deal with even the slightest dent in the middle of a video display. I'll be impressed if Apple can actually pull off an unfolded display with no visible crease.
The crease/invisible crease is what's going to make or break this for me personally. I'm too OCD to deal with even the slightest dent in the middle of a video display. I'll be impressed if Apple can actually pull off an unfolded display with no visible crease.
Apple justified the R&D costs for the Vision Pro and that has sold poorly (under 1 million units). On top of that, we even got an updated / 2nd gen Vision Pro.
Apple justified the $10 billion+ in R&D for the Apple (Vapor) Car.
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Came here to say exactly this! If they actually release this form factor, it is going to fail.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...features-01e772a5-3272-4e2f-b0cd-53b5b73e8d21
Somewhere between Pixel 10 Pro Fold and Samsung Z Fold 7 is the right dimension.
Should have cast an unknown to voice “Her”. Every time “she” spoke I kept seeing Scarlett Johansson. Seriously 😂
The ending also annoyed me a bit, Spike ran out of ideas there.
This dummy is plastic which isn’t helping it not look like a toy.
It would appear likely if the device is this size it’s because they’ve planned a larger book style one for later. They may even release both sizes together. They probably won’t, but they should perhaps do so.
The reason I don’t see them releasing a tri-fold for some years is the longterm durability of them has yet to be proven. This is important to Apple not just regarding their reputation for quality, but given they would want to charge a lot and would therefore want it to be very good in that area. And they would be right to care about that aspect.
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I would only like the version without the foldable screen inside. So, just the outer display please. That seems like a good candidate to replace my good old 13 mini when needed. I'm totally not interested in anything bigger and I am not interested in any foldable. On some Dutch forum (Tweakers), the foldable is already nicknamed the AppleFlap (a very popular Dutch pastry).
The Apple Evangelists will undoubtedly remind you ever so forcefully that it has A REAL FOLDABLE SCREEN
It is funny and tragic, as a Sinofsky/Ballmer/Belfiore/Panay-era fan, that Apple for a decade-plus has been profiting off Microsoft's marketing failure while ripping off their actually innovative homework to pass them off as their own.
The entire foldable phone market is ~1.5%-2.5% of the market, this is a super niche product segment, not sure why Apple is chasing this, it's a drop in the bucket of the mobile phone space. Also they are entering a new segment 6-7 years after the competition, not sure how many potential buyers there are out there for this segment.
Well, Dan, I hope you’re wrong about this design because, in my view, it looks hideous and, as others have pointed out, far too reminiscent of the Microsoft Surface Duo. I suppose it would work fine if you were wearing cargo pants or carrying a bowling bag. 🙄
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That’s point they think they can boost the market and therefore boost their profit even more
Apple is ordering 22 million panels so they clearly expect it to put a big dent in the demand and market
They are chasing it as they need to. They need to move tech forward. They need to catch up to the rest of the market in many areas and this will help
It’s 4:3 aspect ratio which gives a larger area of screen. And this is the small fold, the bigger fold will come too.
I'd settle for an iPad mini with full telephony. Maybe a 7 inch, so it will fit in more pockets. And no, I don't expect people to walk around with it up to their ears, use air pods or other earbuds. I guess if you wanted you could have a magic keyboard thingy, too.
Just look at iZac’s latest render. This device will look much nicer in its final form.
Without a doubt tri-fold is the way to go.. We get iPad screen sizes in a device which is the size of the phone.. Anything else is a hard pass in my book frankly..... Its what I and most people would honestly like to have in such a device.. An iPad in your pocket..
If it has the same MAIN camera and ultra wide it would be good. Telephoto is great but I think the ultra wide is more important than Zoom.
I've always thought that foldable phones needed to take inspiration from the European paper size standard (A3, A4, etc) where each paper size is double the previous one but maintains the same width to height ratio. If this mockup is accurate, it looks like that's what they've done!