I don’t see any irony unless you mean it in the Alannis Morissette sense.
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Samsung Offers to Supply Foldable Displays to Apple and Google
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I bet you’re the first person to think of that joke and post it on this thread! We should check...
Regardless on how you see this? My personal thought is this going to be a flop like 3D TV. Cool to test once!
This is a feature no one wants, so drop it dead
This is a feature no one wants, so drop it dead
“I don’t even care about folding displays. Give me a phone as thin as a strand of hair I’ll be happy.”
-Jony Ive
-Jony Ive
So a laptop is a more portable desktop computer. A tablet is a more portable laptop. A folding phone is a more portable tablet + a phone. Why is there so much negativity towards the idea?
Wasn't there a similar level of doubt over larger "phablet" phones, tablets and wearables?
I personally sold my ipad and use my plus iphone exclusively as I didnt have the need for two expensive devices when 80% of the time I was using the iphone like a tablet. If an iPhone could fold out into an ipad then I would purchase 100%.
Wasn't there a similar level of doubt over larger "phablet" phones, tablets and wearables?
I personally sold my ipad and use my plus iphone exclusively as I didnt have the need for two expensive devices when 80% of the time I was using the iphone like a tablet. If an iPhone could fold out into an ipad then I would purchase 100%.
Agreed as long as in tablet mode there aren’t serious compromises. Must be big enough size and support pencil. And in iPhone mode must be small enough to be comfortably carried, so no bigger that max sized more or less. Seems unlikely that a folding device can do all that, but I’m open to be proven wrong.
Let’s assume for a moment that the display can stand a sufficient number of folds to last minimum 2 years (avg phone contract length), which yet has to be proven.
What about the display touch feel? In order to be foldable, the display needs to be flexible, i.e. a foldable display won’t have the rigid glass feel to the touch, but something more wobbly, plasticky feel (this is also how the pictures of the pioneer devices look like).
Not sure I’d like this ...
What about the display touch feel? In order to be foldable, the display needs to be flexible, i.e. a foldable display won’t have the rigid glass feel to the touch, but something more wobbly, plasticky feel (this is also how the pictures of the pioneer devices look like).
Not sure I’d like this ...
People seem to say it fees pretty nice, but I am also looking forward to more reviews when it gets out into regular peoples’ hands
That's too close to Huawei's price point to set a foldable iPhone apart from the competition.
Think courageous. Think $3000+.
Samsung is in the business of selling components and phones. It is a business and you want to sell as many of something as you can. Plus they want to recover their R&D to spend on the refinement and any derivative products.
Aah, now it all makes sense!
So the bendie iPad pro they've been shipping is just a beta test for the foldable iPad! They just wanted to see how much **** we'd tolerate in a bendy screen. Now they know, it's gotta be less than the bendie pad. Nice work Tim Cook!
So the bendie iPad pro they've been shipping is just a beta test for the foldable iPad! They just wanted to see how much **** we'd tolerate in a bendy screen. Now they know, it's gotta be less than the bendie pad. Nice work Tim Cook!
Prices will have come down by the time Apple are ready to release.
hello there lord beerus, lol
I will cut it short, I will start right at where you end
everything I said was wrong , yeah ok, maybe because you have a different point of view
and the idea that apple needs help from Samsung to be relevant in todays market
it doesn't fit inside your head, with all due respect, that is called living on denial
me I'm the opposite, I accept then truth, because I am realistic
I'm not blind by fanaticism, the truth is the truth but some time for some people the truth hurts
you are mixing 2 different things, but let me ask you , who made the OLE screens for apple?????
no more questions for the witness your honor
it really depend how you want to see things
I can twist your texaco analogy around real good but I honestly don't have time for that right now
I don't have to convince you, but every coin has 2 sides
there is always another side of the story or another person with a different point of view
but you are free to believe what ever you like or interpreter things your way
nothing wrong with that
that is the difference between your brain and mine
how they process data in a different way
apple doesn't innovate anymore that is the painful truth
there is no point on denying what is obvious
we can continue this some other time
cheers
I’m sure Apple is looking at all options. They’ve missed or have been slow to board the boat on popular trends like large display phones and 2 in 1 touch screen laptops. They’re rarely first to market, but they can’t ignore new technologies like flexible screens especially as it has potential wearable applications.
this is the # 1 problem with apple, as much as people don't want to hear it or they simply don't want to admit it
no innovation
apple should get new personal with new fresh ideas and stop milking the cow
eventually the cow is going to run out of milk or they will end up with out a cow
because they sucked the poor cow dry
making an fordable iphone will be just like coping someone else idea, it doesn't matter how good that phone will be
it doesn't matter if you make it better because you copied the idea, be original or at least made some changes
we already have bendable iPhones and iPads, now we need fordable ones
while you at it, see if you can also do something with the watch
prepare yourself, apple is going the fordable route with all their devices
something new
yeah right, something new for apple costumers but they stole, sorry copied the idea from samsung
just in case I'm not a samsung fan, I'm an android hater
but I'm realistic
mr cook thinks the ship is a submarine and he is going to drown everybody
he is taking the ship to the bottom of the sea and everyone on board with him
no innovation
apple should get new personal with new fresh ideas and stop milking the cow
eventually the cow is going to run out of milk or they will end up with out a cow
because they sucked the poor cow dry
making an fordable iphone will be just like coping someone else idea, it doesn't matter how good that phone will be
it doesn't matter if you make it better because you copied the idea, be original or at least made some changes
we already have bendable iPhones and iPads, now we need fordable ones
while you at it, see if you can also do something with the watch
prepare yourself, apple is going the fordable route with all their devices
something new
yeah right, something new for apple costumers but they stole, sorry copied the idea from samsung
just in case I'm not a samsung fan, I'm an android hater
but I'm realistic
mr cook thinks the ship is a submarine and he is going to drown everybody
he is taking the ship to the bottom of the sea and everyone on board with him
Totally two different segments. A TV, more specifically a curved 3-D TV, is a stationary device, and consumers generally don’t update TV’s on an annual basis. In the mobile market, smart phones have much more of a dominant play, because we are constantly on the ‘go’, and the ability to able to enlarge and truncate a device with a foldable display, has far more appeal than a 3-D TV. The Only thing a foldable display and curved TV share, as they are price exorbitantly, but the fact that a foldable display has the ability to be more mainstream once the technology matures over the course of time.
this is the # 1 problem with apple, as much as people don't want to hear it or they simply don't want to admit it
no innovation
apple should get new personal with new fresh ideas and stop milking the cow
eventually the cow is going to run out of milk or they will end up with out a cow
because they sucked the poor cow dry
making an fordable iphone will be just like coping someone else idea, it doesn't matter how good that phone will be
it doesn't matter if you make it better because you copied the idea, be original or at least made some changes
we already have bendable iPhones and iPads, now we need fordable ones
while you at it, see if you can also do something with the watch
prepare yourself, apple is going the fordable route with all their devices
something new
yeah right, something new for apple costumers but they stole, sorry copied the idea from samsung
just in case I'm not a samsung fan, I'm an android hater
but I'm realistic
mr cook thinks the ship is a submarine and he is going to drown everybody
he is taking the ship to the bottom of the sea and everyone on board with him
Yes. If there is one thing that defines apple it is lack of innovation.
It’s not like they changed the world with Mac, iPod, iTunes, or iPhone, after all. And even those uninnovative things were all released one after another in rapid succession, within a period of just a few years.
Of course, I may be misremembering all this...
Believe it when I see it. Apple has a history of not releasing any hybrid devices. And a folding phone is exactly that.
In theory this is very nice. Practically, I've many doubts phones are a good application for folding screens.
Same goes for transparent screens often seen in science fiction movies. Nice for certains applications but not handheld devices...
In theory this is very nice. Practically, I've many doubts phones are a good application for folding screens.
Same goes for transparent screens often seen in science fiction movies. Nice for certains applications but not handheld devices...
There have been curved phones as well... just sayin'... they also were a huge success...
Well I have just replaced the broken screen on a 5S because nothing that Apple currently sells interests me, they are all too big and I will NOT be buying them.
Anything that folds or bends has mechanical stress points, stress points eventually break. Of course Apple will be happy with a phone that dies every 3 years, consumers won't be.
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Nope, nope, nope. It's just a phase just like small tablets were back before the iPad mini, which is all but confirmed dead at this point.
Why not just get an SE? It’ll last you a few years longer, it has the same specs as the 6s
