1) Of course it's thicker when you fold a tablet in half, this stating the obvious. You could ask yourself why is the iPhone so heavy given the smaller screen size LOL
Battery, for one.
One common complaint of the galaxy flip / fold phones are their subpar battery life, which is understandable given that there is less space inside for a battery. You are not really twice the internal volume for components despite the phone being twice as thick, since a part of it goes to the thickness of the casing effectively being doubled.
You also have less thickness for a batter camera (since you effectively only have half the thickness to work with).
In short, you get all the downsides of a way thicker device, without any of the benefits.
2) Apple themselves are shifting from 16:10 towards a squarer format like Microsoft 3:2 (1-1.5) where only the Ipad mini is the same and most others iPads are 4:3 which is quite square. Obviously a Fold with a preferred 3:2 aspect ratio would be too tall or too wide for practicalities of pocket-ability when folded
Since when? iPads have been getting slightly longer in length, so they are actually moving away from the old 4:3 aspect ratio, rather than getting more square.
If it's design constraints like this that prevent the fold from attaining an ideal aspect ratio, then maybe it just goes to show that this is a flawed design in the first place. You have a square tablet that few apps are optimised for, doesn't really give you that much more usable screen space for tasks like watching 16:9 video (since you are just getting more letterboxing), and is still too small for the stuff that I would normally do on a tablet anyways.
Your remarks of inferior experience is showing a complete lack of understanding of others user cases. Be it side by side viewing of email inbox and viewing screen or split screen views in landscape mode etc etc. Or the simple fact that for many carrying 2 devices constantly is just not practical.
None of these benefits will be worth the hassle of bringing around a much thicker and heavier device for the majority of users.
I have always remarked how well you have integrated the iPad in to your workflow even though from my personal perspective it would be a non starter if not bizarre
Thank you, but I don't see what relevance it bears to the current discussion at hand.
Foldables are a hard sell many due to price point and OS preferences no because of functionality
I will say it's a hard sell because I see it more as a niche feature (more akin to the S6's curved screen tech) than phablets. There will be people who like it. There will be people with a genuine use case for such a product. I am not dismissing their preferences or claiming that their use cases aren't genuine. What I am saying is that these group of users are in the minority, and will very likely stay that way. I doubt folding phones will become a mass market product or the future of smartphone design.
Also, the key reason I don't see Apple entering this market is because they are betting the farm on wearables. I don't understand why Apple is being seen as lazy or uninnovative simply because they aren't copying the competition. We have seen what happened with criticism of Apple not having their own netbook, or cheaper iPhones, or their own Netflix clone, or a dozen other offerings that never really caught on.
Why are people so convinced that Apple is going down the wrong path by not copying Samsung?
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is becoming an increased harder pill to swallow IMO
