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.
Great, because phones aren’t expensive or fragile enough.
Nah fuck that.
Please no.
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.
Sad but true.
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?!)
If the foldable screen could be more robust, and the fold could be truly invisible when unfolded, I could see it being useful for some people as a phone-tablet hybrid.
Unfortunately features like hardware kill switches will probably always be too niche for a mainstream flagship.
I don’t understand why there’s a lot of hate here for a product people don’t have to buy lol. I think foldable phones are neat.
Whenever my upgrade window comes around, I ponder getting a folding phone. But two things stop me.
Firstly, they all run Android, and having been on iOS since 2009 I have very little ambition to switch.
Secondly, as it stands, it’s a point of failure that will massively impact its resale value when I upgrade. It’s bad enough trying to sell a phone with a two or three year old battery, but batteries can (in general) be replaced. Now imagine trying to sell a phone that has three years worth of screen wear on it, knowing that it could fracture at any moment.
So in the end, cool as they are, they’re also pretty handy to the manufacturers as offering a point of failure that’ll make them unsellable.
Lol, why is that another paid service?
Because they are hosting those files for you.
And why is it a separate service from iCloud?
Because it’s more than just hosting them. Look I’m not a salesperson nor a fanboy. But years ago before I was into self hosting I was very happy to pay $15CAD/year for iTunes to host my obscure music and integrate it seamlessly with Apple Music. AFAIK there are no similar competing products.
If you’re not interested then don’t use it!
It’s been a while since I tried, but can’t you also sync your Music album locally still as well? Exactly the same as with an iPod. I know you still can with iPods, because I still use my iPod and sync it that way. But my phones have synced with Apple Music for as long as AM has existed.
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?
can’t wait for apple fans to treat this as a huge innovation in 2027
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.
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 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
This bothers me a bit because I absolutely love my current gen horizontal fold phone. The crease isn’t ugly or growing in the year or so I’ve had it. You can feel it, but I got used to that in days.
But it’s quite thick for a phone, isn’t it? How do you pocket a 5cm/2 inch thick phone? It’s more bulky than any regular phone
It’s less than an inch thick folded.
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.
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.
