What you've mentioned is not a fair comparison to what you would get between a foldable and an iPhone 16PM with an iPad Mini. My Find N5 has 512TB of storage and Wi-Fi and cellular. Therefore, a fair comparison spec wise would be:
If you wanna minimize the crease in a foldable, you do what Microsoft did with the Surface Duo.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. I have no interest in a 512 GB iPhone, nor do I have any interest in a 512 GB iPad with cellular. The extra storage is pretty much irrelevant to me since I use iCloud. My current iPhone is 128 GB and it's already sufficient. When I upgrade to a 256 GB iPhone 17 Pro Max, it will be more than sufficient. As for the iPad, when I use an iPad on the road, I just tether it to the iPhone, so having cellular on that is superfluous. In fact, we do have one older cellular iPad, but I haven't had a cellular plan for that one for years, because we just don't need it. For us, getting cellular on an iPad is just a waste of money, because we tether. There is no need to spend more on the cellular feature, nor is there any need to pay extra on an ongoing basis for a cellular plan.
What I'm getting at is with a fair comparison of storage and Wi-Fi and Cellular between the devices, it puts the current foldables at a cheaper price point that buying both an iPhone 16PM and an iPad Mini. And yes, competition is always good.
The original conversation was comparing pricing of an iPhone + iPad combo to a foldable iPhone. There was no mention of Android whatsoever. The fact that your particular 512 GB Oppo foldable is cheaper than what pundits are predicting for an Apple foldable is a surprise to almost nobody, and is tangential to the original conversation.
Uh, wut? I'm still on my iPhone 12 Pro Max from 2020. I guess by your logic, Apple is losing money on me. 🤪
Surface due is not a foldable, it is a 2 screens attached together using a hinge device.
Someone at has seen your post - “ We would’ve away with this if it wasn’t for these pesky observant types “ ! 😬
The company has to check with Apple for any other company that wants to use it for consumer purposes. Not ALL purposes, but any that may infringe on Apple’s agreement with them. Apple approved some product a few weeks ago, for example.
They haven’t released a folding phone because the technology isn’t there to make tens of millions in a year. The top selling folding phones sell way less than that.
EVERYtime I read “Apple doesn’t want to cannibalize”, they have a HISTORY of cannibalizing their stuff. If Apple were like other companies, we’d be wondering if Apple’s going to finally discontinue the IIGS THIS YEAR
Some of the existing flip phones with foldable screens are already well under US$1000. These are 3-4" when folded but 6-7" when unfolded.
It’d be more of a headache than it’s worth for them. Plus, they don’t need to own it if they “own” the rights they’d be interested in, which they do. They figure out how to manufacture things, make the hardware required to manufacture things, ship that hardware to partner sites, then Apple just steps in and says “make this” knowing that if anyone else wants them to make that, Apple can say “no”. It’s not technically owning the widget, but it’s still restricting others from doing what you can do.
notes, writing, drawing, reading, without lugging a laptop or an ipad around.I'm not anti, just wondering what people do with a phone this big. Where do you carry it? What do you do with it? Is it purely digital content digest that can't be done on a laptop or iPad or a TV? Is it even being used as a phone, an iPod and an internet communicator?
And yet, people will still think that Apple doesn’t want to cannibalize their products.
There are MILLIONS of Macs each year that aren’t sold because most people prefer the OS that works like the one on their phone over macOS. Their entire desktop line has been eaten up by their mobile products. They’re perfectly fine with someone choosing one Apple product over another. Their entire desktop concern they’d have is if anyone were to buy a NON-Apple product.