Samsung Offers to Supply Foldable Displays to Apple and Google

[tooltalk]

I'm already over the foldable display trend. To me, it's similar to why Apple keeps Macs and iPads separate. Merging product lines would result in a bad computer and a bad tablet. Keeping them separate allows them to be the best of both what they're supposed to be.

Merging a phone and a tablet = a bad phone and a bad tablet. A raised cost for a worsened experience. The only advantage it offers is that it would allow you to carry a tablet in your pocket instead of carrying around 2 devices, but that's not worth it to me.

couldn't agree more. Why would anyone want to combine different products lines?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-the-Phone-with-iPhone/

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 9, 2007—Apple® today introduced iPhone, combining three products—a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod® with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps—into one small and lightweight handheld device.

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[AppleScruff1]

couldn't agree more. Why would anyone want to combine different products lines?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-the-Phone-with-iPhone/



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But but.......

 

[tooltalk]

Samsung does manufacture Apple’s OLED screens but the engineering is Apple’s. Samsung makes the screens to Apple’s specs, not Samsung’s.

Actually no. Apple's OLEDs are Samsung's with minor tweaks and different calibration.

 

[Heineken]

And when they make it $500 more expensive

I did not upgrade to XS, because they are expensive as it is. Lets go back to reality.

 

[AppleScruff1]

I did not upgrade to XS, because they are expensive as it is. Lets go back to reality.

Nice phone though.

 

[Heineken]

Nice phone though.

Not good enough reason.

 

[Baymowe335]

I don't often agree with you, but here you are absolutely correct.

AMD did similar when they sold off their FAB's and outsourced. the cost of fabbing their own chips was so massive due to all of what you said (and more).

the capital that Samsung probably also spent on R&D for folding AMOLED is massive. Of course they're going to want to sell as many foldable displays (not talking the Galaxy fold, I mean the panels themselves) as possible.

anyone who doesn't know this or see this has a fundamental lack of understanding of business.

I thought we agreed all the time, to be honest. Maybe I’ve confused your username.

 

[velocityg4]

Apple should consider selling its ARM CPU to Samsung and others. Make some more money and hurt Qualcomm at the same time.

I doubt it would hurt iPhone sales any.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Not good enough reason.

Perhaps not to upgrade from the X, but it is a nice phone, especially for those coming from a 6 or 7.

 

[Justanotherfanboy]

Apple have already finished building their foldable phone but marketing is stuck on a new name...is it an iPhone or iPad? How about iPhad?

You definitely got the “fad” part correct!

 

[SeattleMoose]

Change for the sake of change is not "progress" once you have reached the perfect design. It is in fact...regression. The pinnacle of smart phone form factor remains the iPhone SE (with headphone jack, home button, relatively small, etc.). Glad I got one right after the SE2 failed to materialize.

 

[LordVic]

I thought we agreed all the time, to be honest. Maybe I’ve confused your username.

possibly? maybe? I could be confusing you with someone else too.

 

[Justanotherfanboy]

Because a phone that unfolds into a tablet is valuable to me. I know some people are dismissing it, but to me it’s innovative. Some things just need to be fine-tuned and improved.

And that’s the point. Just like it was hard to see phablets taking off when they were bricklike w/ enormous bezels, etc.
It is currently difficult to see a $2600 foldable phone being “the future”, when that’s more than an iPad Pro & an iPhone XS Max, put together.
Just like the XS Max is a far cry from the Note 1... if a distant future iteration of an iPhone has a foldable screen, it would scarcely prove that foldable phones are a sensible idea/purchase, at this point in time.

 

[dannyyankou]

I did not upgrade to XS, because they are expensive as it is. Lets go back to reality.

But you bought an X, which was $250 more than the previous flagship. When they release a foldable phone, a lot of people will buy it because it looks new and different.

 

[Heineken]

But you bought an X, which was $250 more than the previous flagship. When they release a foldable phone, a lot of people will buy it because it looks new and different.

I saw value in it if I use it for at least two years, but its so good i might use it for 3.

 

[AppleScruff1]

I saw value in it if I use it for at least two years, but its so good i might use it for 3.

I think it was pretty feasible to get 3 years out of the last few iPhones.

 

[Heineken]

I think it was pretty feasible to get 3 years out of the last few iPhones.

I had my 7 for 23 months.

 

[CJLevinsk22]

Am I the only one that thinks "foldable phones" are terribly gimmicky?

 

[AppleScruff1]

I had my 7 for 23 months.

My wife still uses a 7+. We still have a 6S in use, it’s on the slow side now but it works fine.

 

[Heineken]

Am I the only one that thinks "foldable phones" are terribly gimmicky?

In the current state they are.
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My wife still uses a 7+. We still have a 6S in use, it’s on the slow side now but it works fine.

I gave mine to my brother still in mint condition.

 

[dannyyankou]

I had my 7+ for about 28 months. I probably could’ve used it for another 8, but it was hard to resist the large screen of the XS Max.

 

[Acorn]

A iPad 12.9 I could fold to 6 1/2 inches would be sweet for transporting and such. There would be no reason to not carry one around with you anymore. It would be unfolding entertainment. It would be even cooler if the Apple Pencil still worked. I’m pretty sure people would be impressed if Apple went on stage and pulled a folded 12.9 inch iPad out of his front pocket.

 

[Ghost31]

Apple is not going to make a foldable phone in near future. If they do I will eat my shoes.

This comment might not age well

 

[GoodWheaties]

Unfortunately, it’s not a phone that unfolds into a tablet, but rather, a tablet that folds into a clumsy and cumbersome phone.

A tablet with a very awkward aspect ratio at that. If used for video, the picture will be no larger than with the device folded up. And good luck getting devs to take advantage of the extra space.

 

[falainber]

A tablet with a very awkward aspect ratio at that. If used you video, the picture will be no larger than with the device folded up. And good luck getting devs to take advantage of the extra space.

Only in outdated OS like iOS. In other OSes, well designed apps use all available space automatically.