Apparently both this one and the Samsung one are selling well, so… Somebody does.
This has come and gone. Feature phones had their thin&light phase, too. And it suits the manufacturers because they’re doing this work to make foldables anyway, so selling the thin candybar is a free side gig. Which is probably needed, because to riff on your point, what consumer wants to spend 2K on a bad tablet with a plastic screen that folds into a mediocre phone?
Yeah, see? There is a market for it, just like there is a market for an unnecessarily thin candybar.
Is it a mainstream device that everybody wants? No, but some people do like it.
And hey, I 'm not berating you for it. I like weird tech and I’m willing to overpay for it. At this point the only reason to ever buy a new phone is your old phone broke… or you want something fun and weird and are willing to overpay for it.
A lot of people buy the latest Samsung and Apple just because they’re new and a status symbol to them. I don’t think it’s a good metric for week wants what.
I do think many people want thin for various reasons, just doing think it’s valid proof.
Apparently both this one and the Samsung one are selling well, so… Somebody does.
This has come and gone. Feature phones had their thin&light phase, too. And it suits the manufacturers because they’re doing this work to make foldables anyway, so selling the thin candybar is a free side gig. Which is probably needed, because to riff on your point, what consumer wants to spend 2K on a bad tablet with a plastic screen that folds into a mediocre phone?
I’m getting my pixel fold 10 next week 😭
Yeah, see? There is a market for it, just like there is a market for an unnecessarily thin candybar.
Is it a mainstream device that everybody wants? No, but some people do like it.
And hey, I 'm not berating you for it. I like weird tech and I’m willing to overpay for it. At this point the only reason to ever buy a new phone is your old phone broke… or you want something fun and weird and are willing to overpay for it.
A lot of people buy the latest Samsung and Apple just because they’re new and a status symbol to them. I don’t think it’s a good metric for week wants what.
I do think many people want thin for various reasons, just doing think it’s valid proof.