Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that's not stopping anyone but Apple.

Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that’s not stopping anyone but Apple.

  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Yes! This! (For now) foldable phones are not a good idea imo. The consumers are using it casually and a lot of designers tend to forget that. It’s not about how it is intended to be used but how the majority is using it. Same with the stylus and the Note 5 in 2015. People inserted the pen backwards and broke the phone. Is it supposed to go in backwards? No. Will people do it accidentally if they are using the phone on a daily bases? Yes. It seems as if the durability tests aren’t adapted enough for new features.

    Until phones with a foldable screen are robust enough for the average Joe(-anne) to use, I will not consider buying one, even though the concept seems very useful.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Based on this article consumers overall agree with you. I’m not a fan. But my wife has a real good reason. Pockets in women’s clothes suck as they are tiny or non existent and modern smart phones even the small ones never fit. But her phone when folded does.

      I imagine we’ll go through this dance of yearly replacements until T-Mobile gets sick of it 😂

      • gianni@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I miss the days of tiny phones. I still use an iPhone 12 mini and it’s nearly impossible to find modern Android phones with less than a 6” screen. I don’t understand the obsession with enormous screens. Sure the flagship models could have big screens to pack in bigger batteries and more powerful components—but why is no one making a 4” phone?

        • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Yeah I wonder as well. My wife would rather have that but there are no choices like that anymore. What we used to consider ridiculously huge, because tablets started at 7" became the norm. To think my phone is almost the size of an entry level tablet not that long ago is wild.