Apple's IPhone 16 Series Packing a series of new features from Improved cameras And deep integration with Apple Intelligence in updated processors. But the long speculated overlap Flip on iPhone It's not nowhere. Most Android phone manufacturers, including SamsungGoogle, Motorola, OnePlus, Xiaomi And honor, for years they sell overlapping devices and begins to feel like Apple is late for the party. It can be a problem.
Apple dominates the premium phone category, but Overlap – that fit the premium space in terms of price- already get into its heels, with Motorola Telling CNET That 20% of customers who buy their Razr overlap jumped from Apple. Meanwhile, Samsung is in the sixth generation of its Flip and Fold series. As Kenni found out, Lisa Edichokoko during a visit to Seoul, “The overlays are everywhere“In Samsung's home country in South Korea.
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With almost all the largest Android phone manufacturers who come into overlap, Apple risks not only losing potential customers, but also allowing a rival like Samsung to become a category name, which may make Apple influence if it eventually launches its own folding product. In addition, clients who have become early overlapping, attracted by fancy bending technology, can be too rooted in the Android ecosystem until Apple's phone comes to want to switch to iOS.
Apple is unlikely to be worried. It is estimated that about 20 million overlaps from all manufacturers were sold worldwide in 2023, while Apple reportedly sold 26.5 million mobile phones to the iPhone 14 Pro Max in the first half of that year. It is clear that Apple thinks it is yet to miss the ship.
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Apple has always found success in taking its time, bothering the industry and launching its own product when it's ready. Apple did not invent phones, tablets, smart watches or computers, but found ways to take existing products and make them more worthy, more valuable in everyday life and-I dare to say-exciting. Therefore, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac lines dominate today.
For me, I need to see how they download Apple on the phone by overlapping. I wrote earlier about how I am disappointed in the folders. I've been a mobile rapporteur for over 13 years and phones have become more annoying because they have converged to become small variations on the same rectangular plate.
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Overlap promised something newSomething innovative, something that briefly caused excitement in me, but for a few years in, that excitement has diminished to the extent that it is extinguished. They are good products and while I like the novelty of the bend screen, they are not a revolution in the way we communicate with our phones. Not the way to arrive on the touch screen was when we were still pushing the keys to write texts.
I hope to be Google's pixel on Google the phone to catapult the folding forwardAnd while the new one Pixels 9 pro overlap – The second generation of Google's overlap offers some great updates, not yet offering any revolution. Instead, it feels more like “me” moves from Google. Dito for OnePlus open. So, I remain to look at Apple, a company with a record for product revolutions, to create a new download of the genre that really drives forward as we use our phones.
Google's pixel slope is a decent phone, but does not lead the category forward in any important way.
That innovation will not come from the design of the product. Apple works closely with its third -party software developers and that is the entrance that will help overlap the iPhone to become really useful. My biggest complaint about switches right now is that while the hardware is decent, the devices are essentially only standard versions of Android with a few changes to the UI.
Several Android developers accept the overlap format and it is not difficult to see why; Users are not there in sufficient numbers yet to justify time and costs to customize their software in different screen sizes. Multiple overlapping formats are already available, Android switches are facing the same issue of fragmentation that has plagued the platform from the beginning. Android -based folders are simply a more difficult platform for developers to build than regular phones. Apple will be able to change that, as it has been shown by iPhone and iPad.
Apple did not invent tablets, but its iPad line revolutionized the category.
Given Apple's close relationships with developers at the highest levels-let's not talk about your own huge team for developers-I expect Apple's eventual overlap to offer innovations that make it more than just an iPhone that folds in half.
And I really hope it does. I want to expect to start a technological launch again. I want to feel excited to get a new gadget in my hands and feel that moment “wow” while doing something transformative for the first time.
In short, I don't want to be bored of technology anymore. Apple, it's above you.