Apple is a slow development company. Their strategy has never been moving fast on new trends. It’s too volatile. That being said it is kind of embarrassing when they show up so late to the game with this.
Sure, but they still slap a new name onto an existing technology and pretend they invented that shit, hence the meme.
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.
dont get out much?
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.
I’ve seen a few and they were all in on it and loved it.
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.
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.
Everyone’s forgetting the true OG: The humble Royole Flexpai
(It was a total piece of shit)
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.
True, and nobody wants any of them
It’s the price tag, and the fact unfolded they are using a giant squarish format.
Bring me back to the old 16:9 formats, instead. That made sense. You could watch movies, shows, and videos full-screen.
Speak for yourself, two time owner, they’re very nice.
Can you say a little about basic usability? It seems like the outside screen wouldn’t do anything my watch doesn’t already do: the inside screen requires the extra maneuvering of opening it then using two hands
Maybe if I wasn’t already sold on a watch and a tablet, but I have a hard time seeing where this form factor adds anything
The outside screen is fantastic it’s just like your normal cell phone. So you lose nothing. But the advantage is when you want to watch videos or look at photos anything that you might marginally want to see a little bit more of you can just fold open the phone, it’s fantastic.
For example: If you’re trying to take a group photo and you want to know if everyone’s in the frame it’s infinitely easier when your phone screen is twice as large as a normal slab.
I frequently show photos to friends and family, browse the web, watch YouTube and it’s like having a tablet in my pocket.
If you ever sign digital documents it’s so much nicer to be able to actually read the thing on a larger screen to understand what you’re signing up for there’s so many use cases we’re having a larger screen improves user experience significantly, at least for me.
The only apps that don’t work well with foldable phones are typically banking apps because they have an optimized them for a wider screen format but to be honest if I’m looking at that type of data I don’t typically need or want a large format view. Otherwise it’s an advantage I’m pretty much every scenario. If you’re trying to navigate using Google maps you can just fold open your phone to figure out the route and get your grips easier because you can see more.
I can go on, I was skeptical when I bought it, I really thought it was going to be a gimmick to be honest and I was pleasantly surprised.
As far as durability goes, it depends on how you use phones. I’ve never broken a phone screen myself so I haven’t had a single problem with foldable phones either.
Pixel 10 Fold owner checking in 👋
Who cares who got to market first?
I don’t care a lick who was first, I’m a late adopter of all tech, but it is annoying when Apple users tout new features as if they’re the first to experience them. It’s the condescension that’s annoying, especially when it’s so misplaced
How often is that, really? Seems like more of a meme than anything else. I use their products, and prefer their UI. Is it perfect? Obviously not. But I do enjoy the vertical integration. Handoff just works™. iMessage works well, etc.
There are plenty of features that Android does better, and plenty that it does not. The haters are going to hate regardless.
This meme isn’t the burn that OP thinks it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage
But apple is quite good at showing up late and getting market share anyway.
Sure. It is known that Apple shows up late. Users keep buying their products, so they must be doing something right. 🤷🏻♀️
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.
