I bet they artificially kneecap the slabphones to push people towards overpriced foldables once they are on store shelfs. Just like they did with the Plus and Pro phones.
can’t wait for apple fans to treat this as a huge innovation in 2027
I’ve no interest in a phone that folds. It’s just going to be thicker, and more fragile. Give me an external swappble battery and hardware cutoff switches for wireless and camera. A microSD slot. And ffs, the ability to have both my owned music files and Apple Music files on my phone at the same time (seriously, wtf, not everything is on Apple Music—is there a way?!)
Literally writing from a folding phone right now. It’s so much smaller than any other phone I have had and actually fits in my pockets, and something about the center of gravity is so much easier, it never falls out of my jacket pocket like my old phones used to.
Are you an Apple User? There is a Samsung phone with swappable batteries, and you’d have control over your files. Why are you using Apple products?
Foldables are shit when your sweat is so aggressive it destroys the plastic
Uh, maybe be less sweaty? Wash your hands?
Really doesn’t seem like a flaw with the phones if you’re sweating enough to soak it.
Uh, maybe be less sweaty?
Good idea. I will just alter my biology.
I wonder what they’re actually developing since we all know they’re going to get the screen from Samsung.
“A new and revolutionary way of having a multi dimensional phone, the first ever of it’s kind, it doesn’t fold, it creases at the right points to give you more space than ever.”
Continuing the trend of not being innovative ever since Jobs’ passing.
Apple Watch was not innovative? Apple Silicon was not innovative? Vision Pro was not innovative?
Look at you, all entitled to Apple’s innovation.
Apple just wait until something already exists and then make a more expensive version of it that’s not innovation. I’m not saying that something like the vision pro isn’t a good product but it’s not groundbreaking in any way.
As demonstrated by the fact that Apple made it without any real idea of what it was actually for. It’s a VR AR headset that no one wants. Actually no one wants a VR AR hybrid headset they want to be able to play games, the one thing that’s terrible at because it doesn’t have a controller.
Pretty sure Apple Watch was already in progress when Steve was alive.
Can I just get a phone with serviceable battery, analog audio jack, and support of the stupid apps I am required to use in society for more than 3 years?
Haha. No. But you can get an ever increasing phone where everything is soldered and glued. Also we removes the charging port.
Great, because phones aren’t expensive or fragile enough.
Nah fuck that.
Apple will do what it always does, and launch any new product as and when it feels it has solved the problems raised by new product categories, and has something it believes is better than existing products.
Hahah. As long as you don’t hold your phone wrong or put it in your jeans pocket.
Please no.
I wouldn’t mind foldable phones having two separate screens with a minor gap between them - you’d avoid getting an ugly growing crease over time like with the current screens, and with a proper hinge design you could make them thinner too probably
We surpassed peak Apple years ago.
Apple’s stock price would disagree with you there
That is why we should have abandoned money as the single measurement for success years ago as well.
That’s an idealistic sentiment to have that is unfortunately not representative of our current society at all.
