That’s fair, I do heavy amounts of research throughout the day while on the shop floor where I can’t have a laptop etc handy and find a screen twice as wide to be tremendously useful. I control it with 2 hands very efficiently. Then for regular messages or emails etc, folded and back in the pocket is just fine. All the other benefits are just icing on the cake. But I also remember being happy with my 12 mini many years ago aside from the battery.
My thinkpad fold has no crease. Whereas the galaxy fold I tried was really bad. If Apple made a fold without noticeable crease, I’d buy it day 1.
I predict the cost to be the costs of current iPad plus iPhone combined plus extra apple tax.
It can’t be too expensive. Apple knows they can’t sell a carried on the body product in the $3499 range.
Are you new here? Apple is rarely first to do anything. They are however often first to get it right.
If it could dual boot and supported docking, I’d consider buying it starting at $3500.
In other words, Apple only lists a spec sheet like you ordering a pizza from dominos. The actual engineering and design is done by Samsung or LG.
Wrong. Samsung or LG gets it right. Apple just buys it in bulk for the right price. Read the first paragraph. Apple is just listing a spec sheet, not doing the actual engineering.
I believe that isn't entirely true. It's my understanding that Apple engineering works closely with Samsung and LG (among others) to develop screens and add its proprietary enhancements, and the "spec sheet" they give the manufacturers is highly customized. They're not just buying something off the shelf - they do a lot of the engineering themselves and then hand it off to others to implement.
Anyone who ships a product running Android isn’t doing it right. Also, if I’m being nitpicky, anyone putting a 1990’s bezel over the top of the edge of the folding screen (looking at you Samsung and LG) isn’t doing it right either.
Apple’s “engineering” team is only responsible for keeping tabs on their supplier’s R&D. Their engineers don’t actually develop anything. They decide what feature invented by their suppliers is good to use in their products. They don’t actually invent any of the tech they’re using.
It’s far more than a spec sheet. It’s like Apple tells the farmers how to grow and harvest the flour and veggies. How thin or thick to grind the flour, how old before slaughtering the animals and seasoning in the sausage, temp and humidity for drying the pepperoni. We haven’t even gotten to the part about making the pizza. That’s how much control Apple has over a product and everything that goes into it. When Apple tells Samsung/ LG to jump, they know to ask exactly how high.
lol no. What you’re describing is manufacturing. Apple’s “design” is mostly listing general features, not how to achieve the features. If you analyze an iPhone Pro Display, you’ll see that the pixel layout follows the diamond pentile matrix invented by Samsung. Apple does not have anything to do with this technology. Apple pretty much lists features like what nits they want or a certain color profile, but that isn’t “engineering” or development.
Do you have a source for this? Because it's not how I understand it works. And not that ChatGPT is necessarily a reliable source, but I just asked it the same question and the response was:
What proprietary tech has Apple developed that is cutting edge and not just a generic implementation of a commodity tech (FaceID)?
Who do you think pays the manufacturer to do said research on their behalf? Apple gave LG billions of dollars to build out an OLED panel line. Before Apple instructed them to make the panel appear black when off, all those guys displays were blue. Then Apple told them to fix it and what do you know, Samsung phones now have black panels now too.
This sounds like fake news. OLEDs have always had true blacks. And even if what you’re saying was true, turning a pixel off on an OLED panel isn’t difficult like it is with an LCD panel. It can be achieved with a color profile change, not a tech change.
