Why Apple Needs to Launch the Foldable iPhone Flip This Year
Apple’s iPhone 16 series Packed with many new features Improved camera And integrate Apple Intelligence with updated processors. But long-term foldable iPhone flip Still nowhere to be seen. Most Android phone manufacturers, including SamsungGoogle, Motorola, OnePlus,,,,, Millet And Honors, have been selling folding devices for years and are starting to feel like Apple is at the party. This may be a problem.
Apple dominates the premium phone category, but Foldable -Fit for premium spaces in terms of price – Motorola tells CNET 20% of customers purchased RAZR foldable boats from Apple. Meanwhile, Samsung is in the sixth generation of flip and folding series. As CNET’s Lisa Eadicicco discovered during a visit to Seoul,”Foldable everywhere“In Samsung’s home country, South Korea.
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As nearly all major Android phone makers compete in foldable games, Apple not only takes the risk of losing potential customers, but also allows competitors like Samsung to become the preferred name for the category, which could make Apple even more impact if Apple eventually launches its own foldable product. Additionally, early adopters who were already attracted by bending technology were attracted by folding bending technology when Apple phones arrived to want to switch to iOS.
Apple is unlikely to worry. It is estimated that about 20 million folds of all manufacturers are sold globally in 2023, while Apple reportedly sold 26.5 million iPhone 14 Pro Max phones in the first half of a year alone. Apparently, Apple feels it hasn’t missed the ship yet.
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Apple has been raising time to watch the industry and launch its own vision to itself when its product is ready. Apple hasn’t invented phones, tablets, smartwatches or computers, but it has found ways to take existing products and make them more useful and valuable in everyday life, and – dare I say – is more exciting. That’s why the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac series dominate the market today.
For me, I need to see how Apple looks on a foldable phone. I’ve written about how Disappointed I was on the folding rack. I’ve been a mobile journalist for over 13 years and phones are getting boring as they’ve blended into the same rectangular tablet with a slight change.
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Folding promises something newsomething innovative, briefly inspired my excitement, but over the years, this excitement has been reduced to the point of being extinguished. They are great products, and although I like the novelty of curved screens, they are not a revolution in our interaction with our phones. The touch screen arrives not when we are still pressing the button to enter text.
I do hope Google’s pixel folding will Cellphone ejects foldable phoneand new Pixel 9 Pro Fold – The foldable of the second generation of Google- does offer some great updates, and it still doesn’t offer any revolution. Instead, it feels more like a “I’m also me” from Google mobile. Same as above OnePlus open. So what I’m left is looking at Apple, a company with a record of product revolution, creating a new style to really push how we use our phones.
Google’s Pixel Fold is a nice phone, but it won’t push the category in any meaningful way.
This innovation comes not only from product design. Apple works closely with its third-party software developers, and it is this input that will help fold the iPhone into becoming truly useful. My biggest complaint about foldable right now is that despite the good hardware, these devices are essentially just running the standard version of Android with a small amount of UI tweaks. They are regular phones, exactly Bend.
Few Android developers embrace folding formats, so it’s not hard to see why. Users don’t have enough numbers to justify the time and expense of adjusting their software on various screen sizes. Multiple fold formats are already available, and mean Android folding faces the same fragmentation problem that has plagued the platform from the beginning. Android-based folding materials are just a more difficult platform built by developers than regular phones. Apple will be able to change that, as it proves it with iPhone and iPad.
Apple did not invent a tablet, but its iPad line completely changed the category.
Given Apple’s close relationship with top developers – not to mention its own large team of developers – I hope the ultimate Apple foldable will provide innovation, not just an iPhone that folds halfway through the iPhone.
I really hope it can do it. I want to look forward to the technology launch again. I want to get excited about having a new gadget in my hand and feel the “wow” moment when I first did something transformative.
In short, I don’t want to be bored by technology anymore. Apple, you’re over.
