The price is also reported to have climbed from an early projection of $3,000 to around $3,900, placing it well above Huawei’s MateBook Fold, a similar 18-inch model that sells for about $3,400 in China. Huawei’s machine, however, features a Kirin X90 chip built on China’s two-year-old 7nm process – a reminder that China remains several generations behind Western fabs. By contrast, Apple’s collaboration with Samsung keeps it tied to the cutting edge but at a much higher cost in both engineering and price.
$3,900 for a tablet (even a foldable one) does not sound like a viable proposition.
It’s about prestige. Once it catches on and rich people are seen with it, normal people will start buying them too to look prestigious too.
You could have said the same about the Vision Pro, but that’s pretty dead
You couldn’t really take them to a Starbucks though. This feels more portable for what many people use computers for on casual setups (shop, music and videos).
Crazy but true.
That’s the price of my work laptop from the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
Good, nobody wants a paper thin phone. You have to put an extra thick case on it just to make in comfortable to hold.
I mean, people might want it…if it were a decent product. But, good in terms of engineering though it may be, both the base model ($200) cheaper snd the pro model ($100) more expensive have much better specs.
Sk you have to make a trade-off in terms of specs just for the thinness. And I’d have thought that even most people who’d want a thin phone would prefer better value for money in terms of features.
Maybe people would want an ultra thin phone, but not when it has a giant tumour that makes it actually almost twice as thick as an iPhone 6.
Someone should manufacture a 1mm thin phone by disassembling one and mounting the screen at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the components, as that’s apparently how we measure “thickness” these days.
If being thin was the penultimate then we’d all use pens/pencils thinner than toothpicks. At a certain point you’re no longer ergonomic for human hands.
honestly I somewhat prefer the thin phone; new operating system is booty cheeks though
