The definition of ‘Innovation’ is the very thing you’ve described.
If your total is 1948 then it’s less than 2k and you can take an iPhone 16 Pro no need for Pro Max… You can take also iPad mini 128gb… then you save a lot !
Sure, if you dont upgrade your iPhone or iPad then they will be less expensive.
Both my cellular iPad and iPhonePro are 512GB which means both devices would cost me $2348 plus $720 for three years of the iPad data plan. Like the ProMax, the iPhonebook will start at 256GB so it would be $2200 for a 512GB iPhonebook as opposed to ~$3k for three years of separate devices. Even if you compare it against the iPhoneAir which is supposed to be 100 less than the Pro, separate devices are still a lot more expensive.
However, people browsing in landscape, or doing something in landscape with the keyboard visible sure would like a double height screen.
Maybe your iPad is 512gb but do you need another ipad 512gb? I just said that iPhone Pro + iPad mini will cost less than iPhone Fold and this looks like a better deal ! If you have 128gb on both then count it as 256gb on iPhone fold…
If you only have base devices, and your iPad is wifi-only, then separate devices are less expensive, but once you factor in upgrades and years of a cellular data plan for the iPad, separate devices are not less expensive.
My Magsafe car mount has held my Fold 6 just fine folded or unfolded, wirelessly charges too. I have photos of it in an old MacRumors thread but too lazy to search for it at the moment.
I've seen lots of them in the wild, even at work. Maybe I go to different places than you though?
We were in Tangier, Morocco and a guy asks me to help take a photo of him with his phone. I said sure and he proceeds to hand me his Fold 3. It was totally unexpected. Of course he was just another fellow tourist but I thought it was cool to find another fellow Fold user at Cafe Baba (famously visited by members of the Rolling Stones from way back).
Yeah um forget about iPad cellular data… you can use your iPhone plan and mostly the iPhone fold is like a book so you can download books on your iPad mini or whatever you want… And use the phone for everything else like you would on a fold phone…
You're cheaping out on storage and relying on mobile hotspot to make your argument work. Do you also really carry around both your phone and iPad wherever you go? If so then you can't really just "hand the iPad to your kid" as you stated earlier unless your kid is also with you all the time. If your iPad needs to rely on your phone as a hotspot for prolonged use then you drain your phone battery faster and pretty soon the Internet access will die for both devices.
$2000 for a telephone? There's an expression that comes to mind: a fool and their money are easily parted.
I couldn’t care less about a foldable phone either. But I still wouldn’t put too many eggs in the AVP basket. It is niche, and has a looong way to go before it can even attempt to step out of the niche zone.
