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I betting $10 Apple’s foldable will be two iPhone Airs where one side has 0 bezel hinged together with extreme mechanical precision and maybe some fairy dust to
by georgelyon 1y ago
I betting $10 Apple’s foldable will be two iPhone Airs where one side has 0 bezel hinged together with extreme mechanical precision and maybe some fairy dust to make the gap when unfolded unnoticeable.
This creates a foldable with no durability issues and no “crease” problems. Also the two halves of the display could be on the outside when folded, avoiding the need for a third display and getting a rear display for free. I would buy 3 of these.
- rollcat 1y agoThe last time Apple introduced a product with a moving part was the Airpods line. I think we'll see a foldable iPhone about the same time we see a touchscreen Mac.
- pnt12 1y agoA touchscreen Mac would compete with iPads so that's a no no. For the foldable phone, it may just have to do with aesthetics.
- tyleo 1y agoAll the products compete. A foldable phone already competes with iPads. iPad competes with Mac. iPad Mini competes with iPads.
- gyomu 1y agoWhat a weird argument, Apple ships tons of AirPods and MacBooks with hinges, not counting accessories like the iPad keyboard (introduced after AirPods) or display stands. A hinged iPhone seems totally in the cards.
- rollcat 1y ago>> introduced > MacBooks Laptops have been a thing since the 80s.
- ashenke 1y agoThat's funny, a lot of rumors are pointing to a foldable iPhone AND a touchscreen Mac https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/latest-round-of-credible-touchscreen-macbook-rumors-point-to-a-2026-launch/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/latest-round-of-cred...
- waiwai933 1y agoI don’t own any AirPods, so this may be incredibly obvious to anyone who does, but what’s the moving part in them?
- sethaurus 1y agoThe hinge of the case (not the buds themselves).
- LPisGood 1y agoApple Vision Pro and Apple Watch both have moving parts.
- eclipxe 1y agoThis is not what the fold will be like. The air and fold have no relation.
- red369 1y agoHaving the displays on the outside when folded removes all the durability advantages of closing the phone with the screens inside. I don't even know if that affects my opinion of whether you'll be right or not, because putting glass on the back is definitely more fragile than machining the phone out of a solid block of aluminium. Am I remembering this incorrectly? Was that the unibody MacBooks? Regardless, I found the aluminium backs a lot less fragile, but we all gave them up pretty easily for wireless charging. Is there something equivalent to longbets.org, but for bets which are about matters that aren't important to society? I'd take you up on the bet - not because I think you're wrong, but because I think it's fun and fairly harmless gambling that is unlikely to lead to either of us developing a habit - but has easily sending small amounts of money internationally been solved yet? I'll bet $10 it hasn't! That I can't send $10 from one country to another, without paying fees that are a significant proportion of that amount, or needing to put an unreasonable amount of effort into setting up an account with a 3rd party service or doing the transfer with that service. And the two bets above are a bad look, so I'll also bet $20 that you can't get me doing any more gambling by the end of the day.
- ashdksnndck 1y agoThe reason you need to worry about the screen of a foldable is because it’s plastic. Normal phones with glass screens are plenty durable. So if you could manage to make a foldable with glass screens, it wouldn’t matter much that the screen is on the outside when it’s in your pocket. The most popular betting website is Polymarket. Payment is via crypto. The fees aren’t super high. The typical user is more likely to lose money by making bad bets. If you don’t want to spend money, there’s Manifold.
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- Fraterkes 1y agoI think it’s a cool idea, but for there to be no crease the 0 bezel sides would have to have incredibly sharp edges. Seems like a real cutting hazard when the phone isn’t folded out (especially if the screens are still glass instead of plastic)
- georgelyon 1y agoUnless Apple comes up with a way to have the crease still physically be there, but visually seem like it isn’t. Perhaps using a waveguide or something similar.
- jay_kyburz 1y agoApple fans were fine with the notch. If I were them would embrace the bezel and make UIs like a book with distinct left and right panes. Even embrace multi tasking and run two regular apps side by side.
- egypturnash 1y agoThis would be kind of amazing for reading ebooks, too. Turn most readers sideways (ibooks definitely included) and they tend to give you two columns of text anyway.
- asadotzler 1y agoThat would be an unacceptably fat foldable. Foldables are 4.1mm to 4.2mm at the head of the class and iPhone Air is 5.6mm. Double that and add a bit for folding and you're still under 9mm (acceptable) with today's leading folders, and about 12mm (not acceptable) for the hypothetical Air.
- mrheosuper 1y agoi wonder why people so obsessed with "no crease". If apple truly care about "perfect screen", they would remove the face id "notch/island" 5 generations ago.
- Anarch157a 1y agoHaving both screens on the outside doesn't let you use the main cameras when folded, Apple would never do that.