If I had $1 for every time I’ve personally seen a folding phone in the wild, I’d still have $0.
I used to have a folding phone.
I might have about $15
I’ve seen a few but it were never the type of people i expected. It weren’t nerds or techies or dudes with expensive cars, it was middle-aged women with presumably fake designer bags. Still haven’t figuresd out if these are the only people buying foldable phones or I am just not in an area that is representative of their typical buyers. At first I thought they were hand me downs from their husbands, but then I’d have seen at some point a man that might be said husband with one.
You need to see more people in your day to day life, then. I saw a lady on the subway that had a rectangular smart phone that folded in half to be a little square to stow in her purse.
Also, one of my friends has a fold out phablet for gaming.
The fact that I noticed and remembered both instances shows that phone makers have been doing a good job of inventing interesting and innovative hardware. The fact that there are only two instances for me to remember speaks to the fact that they have not been as successful at actually getting people to buy them.
Given that foldables are 2% of the market, I’m not sure the fact that there are a half dozen (or more) out there already is the flex you think it is.
I really do find it funny that I never see memes or comments making fun of any other company relating to phones.
Don’t get me wrong. I have had android phones, windows phones, and even PalmOS phones. I know Apple is always behind the times, their comment about copy and paste needing to be perfect before release drove me up a wall. If I remember correctly, it was a jailbreak developer that made copy and paste available on the iPhone a few years before officially being released.
However, I never see people make fun of other companies after they announce a new release. Yall must really hate Apple.
Other companies didn’t spend a couple decades positioning themselves as a kind of tech-fashion elite. Other companies didn’t charge $200 for a crossbody “pocket”. So it’s funniest when Apple’s stupid ideas blow up in their ridiculous image-obsessed faces.
If you dont like it dont buy it. The whole hate lobby at any company is just stupid i.m.o.
Oh trust me I don’t. And I’m always going to hate classism, which is exactly what Apple is trying to support.
They did: It’s called the Apple Watch.
Utterly useless.
Can’t message people, the primary communication system for the target audience, without using cumbersome voice to text.
Can’t browse the internet, the primary use case for a modern phone.
Can’t really answer phone calls without a separate headset.
Can tell time, which is good for a watch. Has a battery life measured in hours, which is laughable for any modern watch.
Anything the Apple Watch can do is better served by the phone that you need to pair with the watch anyway, or a seperate mechanical or digital watch. Or just the phone. It takes 3 seconds to pull out a phone and look at the time.
And if you want heart rate monitoring or pulse oxygen readings: Fitbit did it first years before the Apple Watch. All Apple did was let you struggle to read text messages on a tiny screen that also tells you that your heart rate is elevated.
why isn’t doogee or realme there?
aren’t apple hard drives are made by samsung?
Screens too. But they are designed by Apple, so they are not literally the same. But Apple is obviously not inventing anything new.
