Re:Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
by valine on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:47PM
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I want a folding screen because it will make every part of using phones a nicer experience. There's a reason tablets exist: tablets provide a superior user experience. The foldable form factor lets you put a tablet in your pocket. Nobody understood the need for the iPad when it came out either.
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Re:Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
by iainmerrick on Thursday April 18, 2019 @03:41PM
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I dispute that tablets are a superior user experience. They’re great for some things, but in general phones are better. Phones crush tablets in both sales and usage, and most people have a big phone rather than a small phone and a big tablet.
Re:Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
by valine on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:42PM
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I would say phones crush tablets in sales because you can't put a tablet in your pocket. The folding phone changes this, and that's why its so interesting.
Re:Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
by iainmerrick on Thursday April 18, 2019 @07:49PM
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The first good folding phone might change that.
Re:Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
by antisthenes on Thursday April 18, 2019 @04:21PM
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't tablets a niche and have been for a while?
Not sure how accurate this graph is:
http://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobi...
but it seems like tablet use is dwarfed by both desktop and mobile (not sure where laptops fit into the scheme of things) by a factor of 10.
But now it's 2019 and the line between tablets and laptops is blurred. However, I still don't want or need one. It's too big to fit in any pocket and too small to use as your main productivity screen. And only marginally better for watching movies than a flagship phone (which in itself is not a high bar, compared to watching a movie on a big screen TV)