people say apple is often the brave company that does something unpopular that is then followed by everyone.
i think, genuinely, the brave thing for apple to do here is to cut the foldable. they could even use this leaker as an excuse to make a big splash in the news (although, maybe that will send a bad signal, that leakers have the power to end products - so maybe not.)
cut this project. nobody wants this, its a dumb gimmick aped by handset guys who are trying to differentiate their product with no real ideas or use cases.
maybe it has merit as a research project and an existence proof. but even so - where would you stick a flexible display? maybe inside the vr goggles? but who wants vr anyway? another tiny niche product with no mass market appeal.
i already left another comment on another apple thread - apple should go for the server market. offer self-hosting, but vertically integrated. do for servers what ubiquiti did for routers/networking. i keep seeing people buying mac studio clusters and hooking them up in ad-hoc thunderbolt networks. yes ofcourse social media is not 'the world', but it is a signal. I see mac minis being rack-mounted in the most janky ass looking rigs imaginable. there is a desire for this. people want servers "done right" with no corners cut, which is what apple is all about.
people say apple is often the brave company that does something unpopular that is then followed by everyone.
i think, genuinely, the brave thing for apple to do here is to cut the foldable. they could even use this leaker as an excuse to make a big splash in the news (although, maybe that will send a bad signal, that leakers have the power to end products - so maybe not.)
cut this project. nobody wants this, its a dumb gimmick aped by handset guys who are trying to differentiate their product with no real ideas or use cases.
maybe it has merit as a research project and an existence proof. but even so - where would you stick a flexible display? maybe inside the vr goggles? but who wants vr anyway? another tiny niche product with no mass market appeal.
i already left another comment on another apple thread - apple should go for the server market. offer self-hosting, but vertically integrated. do for servers what ubiquiti did for routers/networking. i keep seeing people buying mac studio clusters and hooking them up in ad-hoc thunderbolt networks. yes ofcourse social media is not 'the world', but it is a signal. I see mac minis being rack-mounted in the most janky ass looking rigs imaginable. there is a desire for this. people want servers "done right" with no corners cut, which is what apple is all about.