Oddbean new post about login | logout @0c1a9324 Folding phones will be forced down our throat because the whole reasson for ever smaller, flatter and more complicated phones is that they are more difficult to copy by cheap producers like Xiaomi.
@5d9669cc Not really: screens are a volume product, flexible screens no less so, so cheap OEMs will begin knocking them out in due course.
@0c1a9324 @5d9669cc Sony made a ~7" phone for a while back when bezels were a thing and phones were small. I loved it but would never buy another. I'm a big guy with big hands and cargo pockets, so the physical size was fine. The problem was engineering. You just can't build a rigid box with a glass front that is marketably thin and light, >7" diagonal, and rigid enough to survive in a pocket. I broke 3 of them in 6 months. The last one ended up banana-shaped.
@9713a166 @5d9669cc Your problem isn't the phone, it's cargo pants. (I'd *never* put a smartphone in a pants pocket.)
@0c1a9324 @9713a166 @5d9669cc where do you put your phone if not pants pockets?
@6a47241e @9713a166 @5d9669cc Jacket pockets. (Or a small cross-body. But usually jacket/hoodie.)
@0c1a9324 @6a47241e @9713a166 you must live somewhere near the North Pole. I haven't seen a jacket in months (well ok, I got married, but that's not somethijng I hope to do every year) let alone a hoodie. I'd die in a hoodie out here.
@0c1a9324 @5d9669cc considering how willing Sony was to ship me continued replacements, maybe I'm the only person who wanted a phone that big and they had warehouses full of them, all unsold. I'll probably get a folding phone next (age, eyes, etc), but I'm wary of either Samsung or Google being able to repair them in a reasonable timeframe. Ok, fine. I'm worried about Samsung. After-launch support is not something that Google is structurally capable of.
@9713a166 @5d9669cc This is precisely why I'm waiting for Apple to push out a folding phone. AppleCare+ cover is a life-saver. (And it doesn't hurt that the nearest Apple store is 500 metres from my front door, on foot.)
@0c1a9324 @5d9669cc absolutely. Apple's repair process is so vastly better than anyone else's. I'd probably switch if they made a folding iPhone, but it's not going to happen soon enough to change my next phone.