Apple's folding screen iPad is the first to arrive, and is expected to debut in 2024!
Folding screen is a hot topic in recent years, and major mobile phone manufacturers have launched their own folding screen models. However, as the leader of the mobile phone industry, Apple has never launched folding screen phones, so why? Recently, it has been revealed that Apple will launch its own folding screen product in 2024. It is not the mobile phone but the first iPad to adopt the folding screen design. Let's take a look at the specific content!
On October 18, the analysis company CCS Insight released its annual forecast report. It is expected that Apple will soon start experimenting with the folding screen technology and may launch an iPad with a folding screen in 2024. This is the opposite of the case where other smartphone manufacturers, such as Samsung, have introduced collapsible smartphones instead of tablets.
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Ben Wood, research director of CCS Insight, said in an interview: "At present, there is no sense for Apple to make a collapsible iPhone. We think they will avoid this trend and may use a collapsible iPad to test the waters." In the latest report, CCS Insight predicted that Apple would launch the folding iPad within two years, rather than the folding iPhone first.
Ben Wood said that the price of the folding iPhone might be around 2500 dollars. By contrast, the iPhone 14 Pro Max, the most expensive iPhone launched by Apple, is only $1599. Wood added: "The folding iPhone will be a very high risk for Apple. In order not to impact the sales of existing iPhone, it will be very expensive."
Secondly, Wood said that Apple should have realized that if Apple's folding screen phone has any technical problems, then some critics will "crazily" attack Apple because of these problems, but Apple "has no choice because the trend of folding devices is becoming stronger and stronger", so the company is more likely to give priority to the folding screen iPad.
He said that this would give Apple a chance to learn and apply folding screen technology and "inject new life" into the iPad series. Apple declined to comment. However, with the gradual maturity of folding screen technology, there have been many rumors about Apple's intention to develop folding screen products in recent years. Earlier this year, the market research company Display Supply Chain Consultants said that Apple could not enter the folding smartphone market until 2025 at the earliest.
However, the company said Apple was exploring folding technology for displays around 20 inches. The company believes that this means that its new technology may be applied to a new folding notebook product. Last year, Guo Mingxuan, a well-known Apple analyst, predicted that Apple might launch a folding screen iPhone in 2024.
Apple has always been indifferent to folding screens. Just like the popular fingerprint design under the screen on Android phones before, if Apple wants to produce a folding screen, it will be very popular. Let's look forward to Apple's new folding screen iPad product!
