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Samsung Offers to Supply Foldable Displays to Apple and Google

I mean, I NEVER used a stylus on a phone. XS MAX is just a big screen smartphone. That's it.

Stop saying Apple is contradictory, cause it is not. I am not "sheeping" here, but they make stuff because they think its right. That's Apple.

If foldable phones get better, or if a better solution is found for the user experience, well that's not going back.
 
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juiz206 said:
Heres why Apple will not make a foldable iPhone, at least for now:

- It does not make a good user experience. Having to flip to different screens.

- It makes the device thicker and heavier with no clear/reliable advantages.

- Given the laptop/tablet trend, Apple is not known to follow these kind of stuff.

- Apple does not consider iPhone XS MAX a phablet, but a smartphone.
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You assume Apple will make the same design as Samsung with the fold. Apple could also use the foldable display to make a Huawei variant of the foldable iPhone(outie instead of innie) . Samsung just sells apple a screen that is foldable, it is up to apple to use it the way they want.
 
Remember the RUSH to get tablets on market BEFORE Apple?

When the iPad was launched, everyone ditched their designs and basically copied Apple.

I hate this catchy mantra, but they are never the first, just the best.
 
ValO said:
You assume Apple will make the same design as Samsung with the fold. Apple could also use the foldable display to make a Huawei variant of the foldable iPhone(outie instead of innie) . Samsung just sells apple a screen that is foldable, it is up to apple to use it the way they want.
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And how that one is any better?
 
falainber said:
Patents mean that Apple invests (i.e. is interested) in the technology.
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It means that Apple is investing in pure R&D, and someone in the bowels of R&D thought this was interesting and relevant enough to look at. One would expect, and hope, that there is someone in Apple R&D exploring every known technology that MIGHT conceivably apply to smart phones, wearables, tablets, personal computers, and every other line of business at Apple. And if someone exploring one of these avenues comes up with an original idea, Apple will patent it. Patents have value even if the company doesn't go down that path in product development. The fact that a large tech company patents something is no indication that there is actual product development planned to exploit that particular patent.
 
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Tapiture said:
I have a Mac laptop and a PC desktop with great specs - GTX 970, hex core i7, etc. and I'm still not confident it could run 4k games smoothly, let alone VR. Idk why you assumed I'm exclusively a Mac user, I know that Macs suck for gaming and that's why my desktop is a PC.
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970 is getting kind of weak these days. You need at least a single 1080 to run VR decently (depending on the game too). Prices will come down of course and VR gaming will catch on to some degree. You can't write it off just yet. You should hackintosh your desktop though and give it a dual boot.
 
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Not sure if the samsung idea is the best one out there, and the cost is much too high. For the price, I'd rather carry around my iPhone and my iPad and be able to talk on one and work on the other at the same time.... and it's cheaper than one of these new Samsung Foldables which are too small to really be useful as a tablet.

Apple needs to get back into the $600-800 phone range. It can be done, especially at their volume. I have considered going Android because Apple is just getting a little too greedy in their prices lately and the cost benefit is shrinking with Android now. (That's really hard for me to say, I've been using Apple products since 1982.)
 
AppleScruff1 said:
But you won’t think it’s stupid when Apple does it.
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Apple won't do it. Even if they will do it one day I will buy it only if they stop selling regular phones simply because android does not interest me in the slightest.
 
I’m not sure why ‘Samsung doesn't intend to keep foldable technology to itself’ is news...

They never intended to in the first place.

They’ve been shopping their foldable displays for years (since 2013/14?)
 
LordVic said:
yes. an interest.

so you agree with me. Apple has shown some interest, even in passing.

I made no claims as to wher Apple was going to release a product of this type. Only that someone, somewhere int he company has thought about it.

I'm really not sure when you're agreeing with me you're being oppositional... its.. bizarre.
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For the final time: I don't agree or disagree, I am pointing out a flaw in your reasoning in that the term "interest" in the context of a company making any deals about an end product is not the same as the term "interest" in the context of exploring technology. The post you replied to was not about having interest in exploring technology, yet you replied as though it was. So far Apple has never shown that it is interested in producing a foldable.

If you are interested in having an intercourse with someone, it does not imply that you are interested in marrying them. You can have "interest" without having "interest", believe it or not.
 
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Apple won't do it. Even if they will do it one day I will buy it only if they stop selling regular phones simply because android does not interest me in the slightest.
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We’ ll have to wait and see if apple will do it, if the next 2 quarters IPhone sales will drop further... they might do it. I am sure they have a back-up plan with foldables in it. It could be the way for them to make regular iPhones cheaper and use a higher priced foldable iPhone to keep margins in check.
 
iKrivetko said:
For the final time: I don't agree or disagree, I am pointing out a flaw in your reasoning in that the term "interest" in the context of a company making any deals about an end product is not the same as the term "interest" in the context of exploring technology. The post you replied to was not about having interest in exploring technology, yet you replied as though it was. So far Apple has never shown that it is interested in producing a foldable.

If you are interested in having an intercourse with someone, it does not imply that you are interested in marrying them. You can have "interest" without having "interest", believe it or not.
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So you want to have intercourse with LordVic? :D
 
ValO said:
We’ ll have to wait and see if apple will do it, if the next 2 quarters IPhone sales will drop further... they might do it. I am sure they have a back-up plan with foldables in it.
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And who told you that? A gypsy on the corner of 5th and Arlington?
 
AppleScruff1 said:
So you want to have intercourse with LordVic? :D
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I think i just read one of the most pedantic round about ways of agreeing with me Ive ever read without outright admitting it because it would require walking back the original comment

I have no time for people like that that. It's great the forums have ignore buttons.
 
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