@SDE_Tanmay@rishibagree It's interesting how people call it a bubble when the stock market's doing great, but then wonder why it's not when it's not doing so well! ๐ค
There's hardly anything that other foldable phones don't offer. The external display looks quite odd due to its unusual dimensions, which are very different from Apple's design. I personally believe we don't really need foldable phones because current smartphones already do everything we need.
Beacuse we don't need these wearable devices in the first place. Smartphones don't need yoga to be more useful; they already are. Thoughtless innovations are likely to fail. Even tablets aren't necessary because they can't function as laptops, just as a folding phone can't be what it's trying to be.
We say we want to spend less time on our phones. Then we spend billions making them harder to put down.
Phones used to fold.
Then the iPhone came along, and we moved towards the rigid, rectangular slab.
Then we wanted compact phones.
Then bigger phones.
Then thinner phones.
Then bezel-less phones.
Then phones without camera holes.
Then foldables.
And nowโฆ we want foldables to be thinner.
Think about it.
We already have a pretty damn good device. A rectangular brick that fits in our hand, connects us to the world, takes incredible photos, runs powerful apps and does almost everything we need.
Yet we're constantly trying to reinvent its shape.
A foldable doesn't necessarily make the phone more useful.
A thinner phone doesn't change what we do on it.
Removing the bezels doesn't make scrolling any more meaningful.
We're just endlessly optimizing the object we already spend too much time looking at.
So I keep coming back to one question:
What do we actually want from our phones?
A better phone?
Or simply a better reason to put it down?
We say we want to spend less time on our phones. Then we spend billions making them harder to put down.
Phones used to fold.
Then the iPhone came along, and we moved towards the rigid, rectangular slab.
Then we wanted compact phones.
Then bigger phones.
Then thinner phones.
Then bezel-less phones.
Then phones without camera holes.
Then foldables.
And nowโฆ we want foldables to be thinner.
Think about it.
We already have a pretty damn good device. A rectangular brick that fits in our hand, connects us to the world, takes incredible photos, runs powerful apps and does almost everything we need.
Yet we're constantly trying to reinvent its shape.
A foldable doesn't necessarily make the phone more useful.
A thinner phone doesn't change what we do on it.
Removing the bezels doesn't make scrolling any more meaningful.
We're just endlessly optimizing the object we already spend too much time looking at.
So I keep coming back to one question:
What do we actually want from our phones?
A better phone?
Or simply a better reason to put it down?
We say we want to spend less time on our phones. Then we spend billions making them harder to put down.
Phones used to fold.
Then the iPhone came along, and we moved towards the rigid, rectangular slab.
Then we wanted compact phones.
Then bigger phones.
Then thinner phones.
Then bezel-less phones.
Then phones without camera holes.
Then foldables.
And nowโฆ we want foldables to be thinner.
Think about it.
We already have a pretty damn good device. A rectangular brick that fits in our hand, connects us to the world, takes incredible photos, runs powerful apps and does almost everything we need.
Yet we're constantly trying to reinvent its shape.
A foldable doesn't necessarily make the phone more useful.
A thinner phone doesn't change what we do on it.
Removing the bezels doesn't make scrolling any more meaningful.
We're just endlessly optimizing the object we already spend too much time looking at.
So I keep coming back to one question:
What do we actually want from our phones?
A better phone?
Or simply a better reason to put it down?
@Tushar15 Honestly, I don't think foldable phones are necessary. A good smartphone does the job just fine, and I can't really imagine why it would need to fold!
@Antiworkship@kaushikcbasu The high-profile Vodafone tax dispute started with a transaction in 2007, and the government in power at that time was the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.