Folding an iPad in half is a really dangerous thought if you wish to preserve utilizing your iPad. However hear me out: it ought to fold in half. Why? As a result of it will make an absolute banger of a folding telephone.
Apple has already achieved optimum thinness. The iPad Professional is thinner than most telephones (and each different laptop Apple makes). What’s the purpose, if to not fold it in half? Was anybody complaining in regards to the iPad being too thick? The slimmest iPad Professional is 5.1mm — fold that in half, and it’s solely a few millimeters thicker than an iPhone 15 Professional Max. Mission completed. And if Apple goes to insist that issues like a floating tab bar are ok multitasking instruments for folks to get issues finished on an iPad, then it might as properly simply flip the factor right into a telephone.
And talking of iOS 18 — excuse me, iPadOS 18 — have you ever seen the brand new handwriting options? They give the impression of being superb. With an Apple Pencil, you may write out a be aware and a characteristic known as Sensible Script will neaten up your writing routinely. However right here’s the nice half: you may erase a few of your handwritten be aware or scratch one thing out, and the textual content will circulation to fill the empty house. That solves one of many points I run into with stylus writing on telephones — including textual content is simple, however when you erase one thing out of your grocery listing, it will get ugly actual quick.
However, let’s be trustworthy, I’m not writing out a listing on an iPad after which taking it grocery buying so I can cross issues off as I wander round Dealer Joe’s. However what if you happen to wrote out these notes on a giant, tablet-like display screen, then folded the entire thing in half to take it with you? It makes a lot extra sense. Apple doesn’t wish to admit that the iPad is a stay-at-home system; if it might fold in half, perhaps we’d be extra inclined to take it to go.
It’s potential that executives at Apple absolutely take pleasure in promoting folks a telephone and a pill and haven’t any intention of promoting them one product as an alternative. I didn’t go to enterprise college or no matter, however high-quality. All I’m saying is that it’s arduous to get enthusiastic about an iPad after I have already got a telephone and a pc, however an iPad that folds in half? Now we’re speaking.