HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
I use iPad mini to do double duty- tablet AND phone (with buds using VOIP app). I don't really feel like I miss a thing and data plan is much less expensive than phone plans ($60 PER YEAR for continuous 5G). I'm happy with this choice and it works exceptionally well for my needs.
However, the ONE thing that matters to me that iPhone has and this doesn't is pocket-ability. If iPad mini could effectively fold in half and/or roll into a cigar-like cylinder, that would deliver easiest pocket-ablity... even easier than the original 3.5" iPhones... without having to give up the much larger screen (and pay much more cost for device and service).
This thread is full of people viewing this as some kind of threat to iPhone- or Apple- or the long-established iPhone form factor... that foldable phones "have no use cases", etc. Of course, bulk opinion was the same when Apple clung to 3.5" and 4" screens as "perfect" (size) vs. the "abomination" phablets: "one-handed use", "pants with bigger pockets", developer "fragmentation", blah, blah, blah. Then Apple adopts phablet sizes and its as if we didn't feel that way at all: "how did we ever get by without..." and "shut up and take my money"... even ridiculing the now "too little" screen sizes of the old to try to sell each other on buying the new.
If Apple launched an iPhone fold or a rollable phone as implied here, there would suddenly be "use cases" galore... suddenly "how did we ever get by without..."... suddenly abundant "problems best solved by this and only this (from Apple) solution"... and "shut up and take my money." It's only "stupid" and "useless" now because Apple doesn't have a version themselves for sale now... as it seemingly is in ALL things before Apple offers their version of whatever it is.
To those who are actually able to "think different" which- in my definition, does NOT include a definition of "unless your thinking deviates from what Apple has for sale right now"
- I encourage you to NOT view this as a monumental change/threat to iPhone... but instead as a potential way for an iPad to fold or perhaps roll down to a container that becomes even more pocketable than iPhone. Imagine the potential of merging big iPad-like screens and small iPhone screens in ONE device.
That's basically what I do now with iPad mini. It is my cell phone when I need a mobile phone but a much more usable bigger-screen iPad when I want to do anything & everything else with it (which is the vast majority of the time). I tuck it under an arm instead of being able to put it in a pocket. If only it could fold or roll.
That's how I see all of this line of stuff... a way to have a much bigger screen than (still relatively) tiny iPhone screens AND get the easy pocket-ability benefit too. Perhaps it's just me but that would be a VERY APPEALING product.
However, the ONE thing that matters to me that iPhone has and this doesn't is pocket-ability. If iPad mini could effectively fold in half and/or roll into a cigar-like cylinder, that would deliver easiest pocket-ablity... even easier than the original 3.5" iPhones... without having to give up the much larger screen (and pay much more cost for device and service).
This thread is full of people viewing this as some kind of threat to iPhone- or Apple- or the long-established iPhone form factor... that foldable phones "have no use cases", etc. Of course, bulk opinion was the same when Apple clung to 3.5" and 4" screens as "perfect" (size) vs. the "abomination" phablets: "one-handed use", "pants with bigger pockets", developer "fragmentation", blah, blah, blah. Then Apple adopts phablet sizes and its as if we didn't feel that way at all: "how did we ever get by without..." and "shut up and take my money"... even ridiculing the now "too little" screen sizes of the old to try to sell each other on buying the new.
If Apple launched an iPhone fold or a rollable phone as implied here, there would suddenly be "use cases" galore... suddenly "how did we ever get by without..."... suddenly abundant "problems best solved by this and only this (from Apple) solution"... and "shut up and take my money." It's only "stupid" and "useless" now because Apple doesn't have a version themselves for sale now... as it seemingly is in ALL things before Apple offers their version of whatever it is.
To those who are actually able to "think different" which- in my definition, does NOT include a definition of "unless your thinking deviates from what Apple has for sale right now"
- I encourage you to NOT view this as a monumental change/threat to iPhone... but instead as a potential way for an iPad to fold or perhaps roll down to a container that becomes even more pocketable than iPhone. Imagine the potential of merging big iPad-like screens and small iPhone screens in ONE device.That's basically what I do now with iPad mini. It is my cell phone when I need a mobile phone but a much more usable bigger-screen iPad when I want to do anything & everything else with it (which is the vast majority of the time). I tuck it under an arm instead of being able to put it in a pocket. If only it could fold or roll.
That's how I see all of this line of stuff... a way to have a much bigger screen than (still relatively) tiny iPhone screens AND get the easy pocket-ability benefit too. Perhaps it's just me but that would be a VERY APPEALING product.
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