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What If We Had a Folding Phone That Didn’t Fold?
Because I think a folding phone is kinda dumb
It seems that Samsung has pretty much solved all its folding problems, so the rumor mongers expect that Apple will soon follow.
Gawd, I hope not!
Well, I guess as a stockholder, sure, some people want folding phones and are willing to pay dearly for the privilege of finding an excuse to unfold it in front of their jealous/fawning friends, so okay: make a folding iPhone, charge a lot of money for it, and I’ll collect the (literal) dividends.
But man-o-man that whole concept makes me draw a very deep breath in preparation for saying something very offensive.
It’s not the money. It doesn’t require eff-you money now and they will get even cheaper. Not so cheap for Apple’s take because you know whatever they sell is still going to be pricey-pricey.
Bigger!
It’s not that I dislike large screens. If my iPhone could look like an iPad and still fit in my pocket, I’d love it. But I wouldn’t love the clunky box that it would be today. I’d want something more like the picture I put at the top of this post: literally paper thin. Maybe even literally paper.
