Post by account_disabled on Feb 25, 2024 1:55:42 GMT -5
Last week's insight into the Pro launch shed fascinating light on Apple's usually top-secret development process. A Vanity Fair interview with Tim Cook detailed, in part, the long, hard work it took to get the company's first headphones off the ground. Apple's CEO gave an early version of the device the unflattering nickname "the monster." Foldable versions of the iPhone are rumored to have had their setbacks as well. Issues related to durability and ever-present folding are said to have caused the company to freeze development of the foldable iPhone as the company focused on a foldable iPad. However, a new report from The Information suggests that, after delays, Apple could return to the foldable iPhone business. The Vanity Fair article alluded to the product in the previous profile and noted: [Cook] walks through restricted rooms where foldable iPhones and MacBooks with retractable keyboards or transparent televisions were designed. Where these devices, almost all of which will never leave this building, are stored in locked Pelican boxes inside locked cabinets. However, the timing of the device's description lumps it in with what appear to be one-off projects that did not materialize.
Apple has been known to abandon ambitious projects that don't meet its exacting standards. However, with occasional exceptions such as AirPower, these devices are not publicly announced. Image Credits: Brian Heater As with spatial computing, Apple has apparently been mulling over the notion of foldable devices for quite some Algeria Mobile Number List time. The root of these efforts could be traced back to 2018, a year before Samsung launched the Galaxy Fold, the first viable foldable smartphone. Of course, that release was plagued with its own release problems. As Samsung learned again the hard way, lab testing will only get you so far. Tecno was among the users who experienced problems with an older version of the phone. The category has matured quite a bit in the last 4.5 years. Foldable devices aren't ubiquitous, but Samsung's Fold and Flip devices showed that the demand is there, culminating in the company's decision to retire the Galaxy Note and promote the new devices to flagship status.
Several other companies are also in the game now, including Huawei, Oppo/OnePlus, Motorola (Lenovo), and Google. For my money, the Google and OnePlus models are the best on the market currently. The durability issues have now been largely resolved. That's not to say that foldable devices can necessarily withstand the same degree of wear and tear as other flagship devices (adding moving parts to a device always complicates the math), but the days of them breaking due to things like dirt are over. . Ultimately, though, the question here is what constitutes “good enough” for Apple? Like the Vision Pro, the original iPhone, AirPods, and the Apple Watch, the company needs to believe it's bringing something new to the table before launching a new line of products. Maybe that means better results in drop tests. From the looks of it, it could mean the elimination of the ubiquitous folding fold. However, in any case, it seems that consumers will not be able to get their hands on one of these products before 2026. Image Credits: Brian Heater IDC estimated foldable device shipments at just over 21 million by 2023, while projecting the market to more than double to 48.1 million by .
Apple has been known to abandon ambitious projects that don't meet its exacting standards. However, with occasional exceptions such as AirPower, these devices are not publicly announced. Image Credits: Brian Heater As with spatial computing, Apple has apparently been mulling over the notion of foldable devices for quite some Algeria Mobile Number List time. The root of these efforts could be traced back to 2018, a year before Samsung launched the Galaxy Fold, the first viable foldable smartphone. Of course, that release was plagued with its own release problems. As Samsung learned again the hard way, lab testing will only get you so far. Tecno was among the users who experienced problems with an older version of the phone. The category has matured quite a bit in the last 4.5 years. Foldable devices aren't ubiquitous, but Samsung's Fold and Flip devices showed that the demand is there, culminating in the company's decision to retire the Galaxy Note and promote the new devices to flagship status.
Several other companies are also in the game now, including Huawei, Oppo/OnePlus, Motorola (Lenovo), and Google. For my money, the Google and OnePlus models are the best on the market currently. The durability issues have now been largely resolved. That's not to say that foldable devices can necessarily withstand the same degree of wear and tear as other flagship devices (adding moving parts to a device always complicates the math), but the days of them breaking due to things like dirt are over. . Ultimately, though, the question here is what constitutes “good enough” for Apple? Like the Vision Pro, the original iPhone, AirPods, and the Apple Watch, the company needs to believe it's bringing something new to the table before launching a new line of products. Maybe that means better results in drop tests. From the looks of it, it could mean the elimination of the ubiquitous folding fold. However, in any case, it seems that consumers will not be able to get their hands on one of these products before 2026. Image Credits: Brian Heater IDC estimated foldable device shipments at just over 21 million by 2023, while projecting the market to more than double to 48.1 million by .