I mean flip flex mode where you get different apps on the top and bottom of the crease. No framework fuss, no developer muss.Įxpect for the finna flex…. Open them up, and you just get the current iPhone interface. If Apple went that way, iOS could just push banner-style notifications to that, so I don't think it'd be much of a hurdle either. The Flip has a tiny pill-shaped display on the front. This might be the biggest challenge for Apple to implement, not in theory, but in practice, as landscape interface on the iPhone has always felt cramped. That would technically be a compact/compact size class, vertically akin to an iPhone in landscape and horizontally to an iPhone in portrait. The Razr has a square display on the front when closed. Both of them are book-style innies-type foldables with the main screens on the inside. The Galaxy Flip - technically the Galaxy Z Flip, reportedly named after it's Gen-Z target market - was just announced this week and will ship shortly. The Moto Razr in all its nostalgic retro-future glory was announced late last year and just started shipping. The second type of foldables we're currently seeing are essentially foldable phones - phones that fold down into… I don't know, pagers? Make sure it keeps Apple Pencil support and we're flying. iPad Air interface when open, iPad mini interface when closed. Not like a book but like a… um… a… actually, I can't think of anything else like that.īut, whatever, a Mate X-style folding tablet would probably be even easier to implement. Unlike the Galaxy Fold, the Mate X isn't an innie - it's an outie. After a flashy debut at the beginning of 2019, as of the end of 2019, it's only shipped in China and there's still no word on when the rest of the world will get it. Huawei's Mate X is another well-known foldable tablet. If developers already support it for iPadOS, it might even "just work" on a foldable pad screen, including multi-window when opened up as a tablet.
#Flip book maker for ipad full#
Regular class when full or half screen, compact class when a third of a screen. It's how multi-window apps work on the iPad already. Since Apple already supports size classes, from compact iPhone style to regular iPad style, and universal binaries that contain both the iPhone and iPad interfaces, all the building blocks are already there. Open it up, and you'd get the 7.9-inch iPad interface. Otherwise the 4.7-inch iPhone 8 or iPhone 9 or whatever the next entry-level iPhone is called - that interface would be perfect. I mean, if it really has be kept super teeny tiny. On the outside, you'd present the 4-inch iPhone interface, the one found on the iPhone SE.
Software-wise, I think a Galaxy Fold book-type Apple foldable would actually be one of the simplest to implement. It folds like a book, with a small screen outside and a big screen inside. And that all got the Fold a crapton of attention. The Samsung Galaxy Fold is the best-known example, because it got a big, flashy announcement, then shipped, then broke, then halted, then refactored, then shipped again. First are essentially foldable tablets - tablets that fold down into phones. Ok, so, there are currently two main types of foldables on the market. And should be, at least until foldables aren't just subjectively novel for people who routinely go through a dozen phones a year, but truly become objectively better for people who need the best phone possible for several years.Īnd those are two very, very different markets. Most people, the vast majority of people, are still buying far more reasonably priced, robustly specced slab phones. They're mostly a second, third, even fourth or more device - this year! - for the small, affluent, industry-insider market Samsung and a few other companies have realized they can target, using foldables, as just the fastest way to separate us from our money. Way more interesting than the so damn always boring slab phones we've all been subjected to for the last decade and a half.īut, they're also not really usable as anyone's only device right now either. We few nerds are buying them because they're subjectively the most novel devices right now.
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