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WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Re: WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Post by Dylan16807 »

elxr wrote: post #197
dpark wrote: post #195

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> Some people genuinely go online just to complain. This is literally you in this thread.

Nice mate. Everything I said has been in support of apple, or anyone else, pursuing and developing a foldable. I'm 100% a fan of foldables, and my point was that they're just going to get thinner. Thus making the "thickness" complaint even more of a non-issue than it already is with the currently available foldables. Almost entirely If you think that's just complaining, I don't know what else to tell you.

Since someone else had already covered the size info, what you've added to the thread is fundamentally an unhelpful complaint. Being a supporter doesn't make your post a non-complaint.

Re: WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Post by Dylan16807 »

philistine wrote: post #134
embedding-shape wrote: post #112

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> Apple's MO has never been to make junk that breaks. Have you never used their cables? I don't think I've seen a single Apple cable lasting more than a few years if they're being used daily, the only ones that last are the ones that are kept static for the entire time. Their computing hardware is great otherwise, no disagreement there. But their cables are the polar-opposite of whatever engineering methodologies the…

So because their cables were subpar at one point (hint: they were bad because they got rid of insidious chemicals you don't want in your house), that means that's not their MO? Failure at a mission statement does not mean you have a different mission statement.

Insidious chemicals? The main flaw was refusal to add strain relief.

Was something else bad about them too?

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Post by chotmat »

wombat-man wrote: post #216
encom wrote: post #77

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>pixel >I do not use a case I have a Pixel 8a, and I have to use a case for it, because it appears to be designed to be as slippery as possible. Every edge is round and there's nothing to grip - it feels like an aluminium/glass bar of wet soap.

I have a 9 pro and it was very slippery at first. I put it face down on a slanted table and it slid right off once. Anyway, I took the case off after a while. It's not new anymore. Your mileage may vary, but despite dropping it a bunch, it hasn't shattered and the edge only shows some slight marks from falling.

I ride a motorcycle (not a big one), and it will slip out of my short's pocket onto the road pavement, every, single, time, without a case.

Re: WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Post by jhbadger »

Aperocky wrote: post #66

I think discussion here are missing that most people do not own a PC/laptop and if they do barely ever opens one, and not because they can't afford it, but it just didn't fit into their daily lives. This is obviously entirely different from the HN crowd. And in that case, a folding phone is huge! Having played with one that my parent use, it's such an upgrade for reading/scrolling experience. When we all are spending…

A folding phone basically turns into a smallish tablet. That may have an attraction to some people, but even fewer people own or want a tablet than own or want a PC. And the people who do want tablets already have a better one than what a gimmicky folding phone can give them.

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Post by somenameforme »

trueno wrote: post #220
arikrahman wrote: post #215

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With my foldable, I find that I hardly use the full display and just use the main screen.

i think about how little i use my ipad mini and yeah, like. its so easy to idealize these pieces of tech in your head and dream up scenarios. reminded of my coworker when he got the surface duo and how much his meeting life was gonna change. he was back on an iphone in like a month, felt like at every corner he was trying to invent reasons to use it but i dont know. it's interesting, im a nerd and enjoy nerdy things.…

In my opinion, touch screens are themselves an example of what you're referencing. Sci-fi always showed them as being not only universal but opening possibilities one could only imagine. In reality they pretty much suck for everything except minimal input/passive consumption, or for doing a poor job of pretending to be a keyboard. I really wonder if they'll stand the test of time.

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Post by radley »

ale wrote: post #52

Besides the new form factor, resizable apps are also meant to further bridge the gap between macOS and iOS right?

At the very least, this is needed for iPadOS and macOS, since both have resizable windows.

I'm currently working on a responsive app in Swift and had to develop my own responsive layout system. SwiftUI simply isn't up to the task, except for one very specific, generic layout.

Re: WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Post by somenameforme »

Aperocky wrote: post #66

I think discussion here are missing that most people do not own a PC/laptop and if they do barely ever opens one, and not because they can't afford it, but it just didn't fit into their daily lives. This is obviously entirely different from the HN crowd. And in that case, a folding phone is huge! Having played with one that my parent use, it's such an upgrade for reading/scrolling experience. When we all are spending…

As of 2021, 78.4% of households own a laptop or desktop, compared to 85.6% with a smartphone. [1] And it's likely driven more by economics than lifestyle choices. It's 50.9% for households earning less than $25k, and 96.1% for households earning > $150k.

The reason PC purchases plummeted is not because people stopped using them, but because if you don't use your PC for high end gaming (or a tiny handful of other esoteric tasks) then one from a decade, or even more, ago will function 100% as well as a brand new one.

[1] - https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

Re: WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Post by HDBaseT »

asah wrote: post #182

Foldables are life changing - everyone I know who's got one, doesn't go back. It's all the benefits of a tablet with the weight/thickness of a cell. Example: maps shows both the map and listing detail. Example: messaging/email apps show the message/channel list and the current message Example: virtual keyboard has plenty of space for punctuation, emojis, etc. Example: games and multimedia are perfectly pleasant to vi…

Anecdotally, everyone I've seen with a foldable has gone back.

Re: WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Post by Lammy »

> On the other side of the pond, Android foldable owners have spent seven years discovering which of their apps work and which ones don’t.

Funny how this thing isn't even announced yet and the fanpeople are already glazing Apple over it :p

I daily a Surface Duo 2 as my car-relegated phone, running Android 12 (which I kinda regret upgrading from 10) and loaded with offline maps and plenty of cached music, and it has never been an issue when an app doesn't gracefully handle being stretched across both panes. Some of them aren't ideal to use that way with the bezel in the middle if they put interactable UI elements there, which is what the SDK support update is surely about, but I have never ever seen an app fail to work like this blurb is worded to claim.

There's a toggle in the application manager for whether or not an app should open dual-pane, and single-pane is the default anyway because why wouldn't one want to multitask?

Re: WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

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Post by chrisco255 »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #99

I instead see these sort of things (add the AppleVision Pro as well) as Apple feeling obliged to respond to "the public" (shareholders?). "Samsung has this cool foldable phone—they seem to be taking the design mantle away from Apple these days." "I hear this VR thing is the future of computing. Why isn't Apple in this space?" I suspect even in the Jobs-era you might point to the iPad as Apple being pressured into res…

> I hear this VR thing is the future of computing. Why isn't Apple in this space?

Apple released the Vision Pro, which is AR

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