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> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
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> I don't get it. You need glasses anyway for everything else. When you get older, you often start needing two pairs of glasses (or bifocals). One for things far away (the glasses you drive with) and one for things much closer (computer, phone, etc...).
Right. And at least I find phone use to be markedly different from e.g. computer use in this respect. It happens on the go, unpredictably, and not for very long at a time. I'm totally fine swapping to a different set of glasses when sitting down to work on a computer for three hours, but it's a much bigger hassle to do for a lot of phone use cases. (I don't like any kind of varifocals.)
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Personally, I'd just open my laptop or plug it into the desktop monitor. Like even a giant iPad with a keyboard isn't productive for me. I just use my phone to check messages, read the news, etc. If I want to do something useful, I just sit down at the ultrawide and use a real OS with like four times the memory. I played with those folding phones at the store last week and thought to myself "nah, just more shit to br…
> Personally, I'd just open my laptop or plug it into the desktop monitor. Most of the world doesn't have a laptop and are not interested in getting one. Even more so when it comes to a desktop. But they would be thrilled about a device which is as easy to carry as a phone but can have as big a screen as an iPad when watching Youtube or reading news or doing a video chat. I can immediately think of at least 5-7 famil…
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
I used to ask the same question about cameras on phones, who is asking for these? Low resolution, terrible low light performance, and who wants to look at photos on a low quality phone display, if you have to load pictures on your computer anyway, why not just use a dedicated camera and get much better photos? I “knew” that with the space constraints in a phone, the camera would never approach the quality of a “real”…
I think the parent is asking who wants the folding phone of today, and, by extension, why is the strategy of a large organisation relying on this market?
I remember walking on the sidewalk in one of the busiest city sections of downtown Gangnam when I was stopped by a guard. On the street, other guards were stopping traffic. Mind you, this street is as busy as any in Manhattan. Then a secret gate opened as a $400k+ Mercedes Maybach slowly backed out. The entire block of pedestrians and traffic was inconvenienced for 10 minutes for this ordeal. I was told by my Korean…
Samsung is responsible of 20% of the Korean economy and is the closest thing we have to a cyberpunk megacorp, he is basically a king inside a democracy.
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
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I used to ask the same question about cameras on phones, who is asking for these? Low resolution, terrible low light performance, and who wants to look at photos on a low quality phone display, if you have to load pictures on your computer anyway, why not just use a dedicated camera and get much better photos? I “knew” that with the space constraints in a phone, the camera would never approach the quality of a “real”…
To use your own analogy, you would like the folding phone from 20 years in the future (reliable and inexpensive). It sounds like you didn't want the camera phone of today in its infancy. I think the parent is asking who wants the folding phone of today, and, by extension, why is the strategy of a large organisation relying on this market?
The answer to that is simple -- the people that are buying it.
You don't get the folding phone of tomorrow without first getting the folding phone of today, and some people want it badly enough that they are willing to pay a premium and suffer through its technological shortcomings.
> Samsung is hoping the launch of its foldables will help level out these losses Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying, "You know what's missing from my phone? More moving parts! A huge hinge for crumbs to get stuck in! I just can't enjoy this app unless it's in a square form factor and a crease in the center!"
I think this is somewhat a function of phones maturing, the way PCs did. I just don't need to replace it every two years anymore. The utility of doing so is declining and the price is rising. I used to get a new computer every two years, now it's probably 6-10. Right now everyone I know on an iPhone 10 or earlier is a boomer, but I don't think that'll be true of the 15 in five years. It also doesn't help Samsung that…
I don't know the breakdown, but Samsung makes all sorts of things. Memory, LCD panels, refrigerators...
I am sure displays and memory are both not all phones, but they're probably in large part that. They provide most of the displays for Apple and other competitors. So Samsung is very heavily exposed to the mobile phone market. I guess if you have low margins and high fixed costs, which certainly could be the case for memory, a 25% decline in the overall market could lead to near 100% decline in profit!