• mlg@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I hope they don’t so I can enjoy my superior clamshell designs in peace.

    Last thing I need is a bunch of braindead apple users getting hyped up over features Nintendo made 2 decades ago, followed by every Android OEM realizing they can stop improving the hardware and downgrade the hinge to save 5 cents on every device produced.

    Not to mention foldables require a minimum semblance of device care, which I can personally assure you most phone owners do not have.

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      8 days ago

      a minimum semblance of device care, which I can personally assure you most phone owners do not have.

      Don’t… stop… you can only make Apple executives so hard.

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    8 days ago

    Maybe they’ll be able to solve the crease issue. Foldables are fun and all, but the crease is so jarring.

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      8 days ago

      Screw that, I want them to work like Earth: Final Conflict. Don’t fold, roll up into a handle that also contains the camera and other non-screen bits. No crease if it never creases.

      It even had portrait and landscape modes based on how much of it you pulled out. Portrait mode shown above.

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        8 days ago

        I loved this idea at the time but… that roll out screen would just break on every use. That and I doubt people would want a two handed user experience. Plus, how would you text?