On February 22, according to Ross Young, an analyst at screen supply chain consulting company DSCC, Apple folding screen iPhone or will be postponed to 2025 release. This news is a bit of a shame, but Ross Young also brings a surprise, that is, Apple is working on a folding screen MacBook.
Huawei, Samsung's folding screen mobile phones have been updated for more than three generations, and Xiaomi, OPPO and other companies have also launched folding screen mobile phones. As the world's highest revenue and profit mobile phone company, Apple has been slow to launch a folding screen iPhone, how can it not make fruit fans anxious.
Of course, Apple may consider not only profits, but more importantly, how practical the folding screen iPhone is. The sales of folding screen mobile phones have increased year by year, but compared with traditional flagships, they are still not worth mentioning. Perhaps for this reason, Apple has not released the folding screen iPhone for a long time, and is still observing the market.
So the question is, what is Apple's development of the folding screen MacBook for? The DSCC report shows that Apple's first folding screen MacBook screen size is 20 inches, supports 4K resolution, does not come with a keyboard, and can fold part of the screen over to generate a virtual keyboard to use. At the same time, the folding screen MacBook can also be connected to the external keyboard, using itself as a 20-inch monitor.
At a glance, the folding screen MacBook seems to be quite good, and it can be used as a laptop every day, but the keyboard feels a little worse. When you don't need to work mobile, it transforms into an iMac, a large 20-inch screen, an external keyboard to use, taking into account a variety of scenarios.
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But how to design the proportions of the folding screen MacBook? If according to the traditional screen ratio, the whole 16:9/16:10/4:3, then folding, the screen will appear too narrow up and down. If the whole special proportion is more suitable after folding, it will inevitably appear out of proportion when used as an iMac.
At present, the folding screen MacBook is still in the design stage, perhaps Apple can think of a suitable solution, but even if it goes well, the folding screen MacBook is unlikely to be released within two years, and it is expected to be launched at the same time as the folding screen iPhone, bringing a unique folding screen product conference.