The point is Apple has shown interest in the tech for a while now. Apple worked on the iPad for 10 years before they released it. With the amount of phones Apple sells they need to consider the amount of foldable displays that can be manufactured in high enough yields to meet Apple’s needs. Could be that the yields are not high enough yet to make the product viable right now. And if Apple does make a foldable device it will sell in volumes higher then any other phone manufacture.
Depends on the screen dimensions. If they employed the same system as the ISO paper system, being 1:√2 (approx 1:1.4), then the ratio would stay the same when doubled. Albeit it'd be a compromise, but it'd prevent a phone having to go from overly wide to overly square.
Samsung had been working on foldable phones for years. They did not copy that flexpai royale thing.
The same is true for the 12 Pro Max. Obviously you dont buy a big phone if one-handed use is your main priority.
The 12 Mini probably sold around 4.8M (6% of 81M). People thought the iPad was not going to sell well either when it was first released. A foldable phone/tablet will sell well for Apple.
It's so 2019...
If any company can make a profitable foldable device, that sells well, it’s Apple. Apple did it with iPad, did with the Watch and I bet they will figure how to do it with a foldable. I remember when Apple released its first $1000 phone, the iPhone X. People were saying things like “no one is going to spend $1000 for a phone”. Before Apple released the iPad, the tablet market was not profitable. Look what happened to that market, it exploded after the the release of the iPad.
