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Apple's Foldable iPhone Display Tech May Set New Industry Standard
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This I did not know! So the iPhone can theoretically already run iPad versions of its own apps, it just needs the right code to tell it to?
I have yet to meet a single person who has ever seen a crease line on a foldable iphone or ipad.
Only an idiot would not make calculated decisions. Literally every business on the planet makes calculated decisions. Like Google Maps precluding navigation on Maps on iOS to keep the feature available on Android only. Apple had to develop Apple Maps to combat the moves by Google.
I would not be surprised to see Apple do something unique with the foldable devices. They have excelled in the past at revolutionizing hardware. Not inventing it but making it better and making it mainstream. The only thing will be the pricing and with the way Apple has been going I would expect this to be stupid expensive. If they go to cheap and make something close to an iPad mini they risk killing a lot of their iPad sales. If they go more expensive they obviously rule out a lot of potential buyers.
Probably not likely to happen in that fashion, but something better would allow the operating system to function similar to the iPadOS when unfolded and iOS when folded would make more sense than attempting to run two operating systems on the same hardware.
Apple has demonstrated the willingness to eliminate product lines based on new products, otherwise you would still be able to purchase an iPod from Apple.com.
Does not necessarily mean that Apple used the patent, just that other people felt that they did, regardless of whether it was or not. There are only so many ways of doing things and if the patent is overly broad and lacks specificity, then patents can be violated unintentionally.
Not with one device release. If this gives us an iPhone and iPad mini in one, that immediately displaces iPad minis and possible the larger iPad for people opting for one device that serves both needs. I know I could easily settle for something an iPad mini size from my iPad Pro 11".
I state it because there are a lot of people, predominantly on these boards and Youtube, and this isn't aimed at anyone in particular who seem to think that Apple does things by halves. They will look at the iPhone and consider it to be a 'lazy, tired design' (paraphrased) without thinking about why Apple hasn't changed the basic look of the iPhone in such a long time.
The reality being that the physical form of the iPhone is as much a part of the brand as the Apple logo on the back. Its the same reason Porsche haven't changed the design of the 911 in 50 years. They even go as far as letting you listen to the engine on their online store to reassure you nothing has changed. People want the reassurance that their new iPhone is as good as their old one. Its why the Apple Watch looks the same a decade on and why the Macbook hasn't really changed much in 20 years either.
No company does things on a whim because selling something requires prep, but Apple are at the top because they consider everything in minute detail.
I just wish it was larger. In my perfect world, it would be a 6.1" iPhone when closed mode and expand to an 7.53" which is a like an iPad mini iPad (calculations done by Claude.ai). The problem with that is the aspect ratio would be very square so really in a perfect world, it would need to be a trifold to really get to the aspect ratio of an iPad mini. Aspect ratios for a book fold are 1:1.09, for a ti-fold it's 1.38:1 and the iPad mini is 1.45:1.
Is folding the future, really? I don’t see it in many SciFi shows, movies, or read about this 'foldable tech' in novels. Is it neat? Sure. Seems like you’d have to be extra delicate with a device like this. Focus on hologram tech Apple.
Companies buy exclusive rights to a particular design all the time. Like the camera sensors in iPhones are almost always exclusive to Apple even though they are Sony made sensors.
how many sci fi shows actually have something that looks usable? If you were to take Star Trek as the example we would be doing a thousand key strokes for basic tasks with a UI that literally is completely nonsensical. Foldables have the potential of being functional and productive and allow for so many different things from laptops with screens that are rolled internally and unroll to give you a larger screen when open, wearable bendable wrist displays and then the standard foldable phones we are seeing. Foldable offers so many potentially cool devices and functions.
I have opted to have the iPad instead of the MacBook because it provides the functionality that I require while mobile. There are two use cases where I need a Macintosh and that is c++ programming and virtualization, which is why I have a desktop Macintosh to fulfill those small use cases. When the hardware and software supports Xcode and virtualization, then I would simplify to just the iPad to replace the desktop.
And Apple could do this now, especially with the iPads running M chips. No reason they can't run a full MacOS and switch to and from iPad OS. This would cannibalize a large portion of their "budget" laptops. So instead you get stage manager to try and make it useful on an external screen without being good enough to replace a full desktop OS.
iPadOS is an optimized version of macOS for the iPad. macOS is not optimized for touch based environment. I have remote accessed my Macintosh from the iPad and it is not as useful as just going into the other room to access the Macintosh directly.
There are many people who actually use iPadOS to replace a full desktop OS, so that statement is completely false. There are software that is not available on iPadOS even with the hardware capable of handling the functionality for one reason or another. Apple has proven that they are willing to cannibalize one market segment with a product that replaces the functionality of another which is why Apple no longer makes the iPod.
Bendable and rollable - for sure. I suppose if foldable is the initial iteration, then so be it. pulling out a rolled-up screen from my backpack in the forest to see how lost I am would be key.