hey everyone I'm Michael Simon from Mac world and I'm here at Mobile World
Congress Apple obviously doesn't have a booth but they are everywhere people are
comparing their stuff to the iPhone 10 they're comparing it to the MacBook but
there's one place where Apple isn't and that's the folding phone space and then
they need to get there quick so there's two main folding phones out right now
the Galaxy fold which we haven't really been able to see it and the meet X
huawei's phone which I one of the first people to just get to touch I didn't
really get to use it but I was able to kind of hold it and feel it and feel the
screen and I was super skeptical when I started and I left thinking that you
know they might be onto something is it worth $2,600 no is it something
people are gonna buy in masses absolutely not but it's a starting point
that surprised me so it's a it's a first generation phone and it's a little thick
and the screen is a little weird because it's not glass it's not it has nothing
had that glass coating so it feels a little bit you know glossy and a little
plastic II almost but it folds well it feels like it's not gonna break in your
hands when you when you keep going back and forth with it it has some weight to
it but it's not too heavy and it's you know it's an interesting step in this
smartphone evolution I'm not gonna say it feels like like the first iPhone or
the first Mac or it's not that type of revolutionary but it takes smartphones
in a step that Apple is just they're just not there you know we had the
iPhone 10 and they're great phones and they've really kind of pushed the
boundaries of this rectangular slab folding phones is where they need to go
and again I was super skeptical but as I held this thing I kept thinking like if
this was an Apple product this an Apple logo on it just how different would it
be I mean they could bring obviously their their craftsmanship that the
design would be totally different it wouldn't it wouldn't look the same it
wouldn't feel the same it would be metal it would be Chrome and all that stuff
but that's not even what I'm talking
about it's from a usability standpoint that
Apple can really kind of just do crazy things in this space so we're talking
about this thing switches from a 6 inch screen 6
six-inch screen to an 8 inch screen so we're gaining about an inch and a half I
mean big deal people aren't buying an iPhone 10 in an
iPad Mini that's not enough of a difference in size but people have an
iPad pro and an iPhone so when I want to see is Apple take that that that 12 inch
iPad experience or the 10 inch iPad experience and shrink that down to a
phone size in a portable format you know people carry they carry these two
devices we do a lot of work on our phones we do a lot of work on our iPads
they're supposed to be complementary and what I think Apple can bring to the
folding phone that a folding space is a way to take this giant tablet and make
it super portable where it really does fit in your pocket that's not really
what Huawei is doing it that's not really what Samsung has done they're
kind of showcasing like we're able to do this and it's super cool we haven't
really thought through with the you know the benefits of having a screen that
opens while we was even saying they think you know most people will use it
as a phone most of the time that's not what I'm looking for in a $2,500 device
I want to be able to open it up and really have this like productivity that
I cannot get here that I can get here and that's what I want to see from Apple
so like everything else until Apple does it it's not really a thing that matters
and I kind of came into a Mobile World Congress thinking I'm a folding forwards
it's a fad and no one cares I changed my mind Apple please I beg you please I'm
giving you two years to come out with something foldable that I can buy and
I'll pay $3,000 for I don't care just give me something that goes from a
12-inch to a 6 or 7 inch screen that I get put in my pocket for all of our
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