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It doesn't make sense yet (if ever). I buy they're prototyping it, but launching? That's a long shot. The tech is nowhere near ready for them yet. They're ext

• tinus_hn 5y ago
  > Physics really doesn't want you to build a foldable smartphone That’s the kind of statement Apple would use in its presentations, just before they would reveal that they built it anyway.
• matheweis 5y ago
  What if you had two separate computers wirelessly synchronized? None of the problems you mentioned, except maybe a hinge, and I trust Apple can get that much right. Such a device would be great for something like reading books.
  • juancn 5y ago
    You use an iPad for reading. I don't see it. It truly should feel magic for it to make sense in an Apple device. The crease in the fold should be non-existent: no color bleeding, no weird reflections, it must be a perfectly flat screen. Apple extremely picky about image quality. Also, water and dust resistance must be amazing. They already sold a phone with a folded screen before (iPhone X has a fold at the bottom to hide control lines), so they may be looking at the tech with a different use case in mind. For example I could see them looking at foldable screen tech to make the bezel disappear (iPhone X screen trick, but taken to the extreme). Picture an iPad/iPhone which is just a perfectly flat piece of screen, no bezel (or a very thin one), no notch, no edge aberrations (like the curved screens some smartphones have). Essentially Job's vision.