It seems that more than one is betting on the future existence of a foldable ipadhowever, everything now points to Apple will not market said device until at least the year 2025. The reason, according to the analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, would be in the disparity that there would be with the price of the standard iPad Mini, which cannot be folded, although he hopes that both versions of the tablet will coexist in the market.
Despite the fact that foldable smartphones have gained popularity over the years, they are still not quite within the reach of the general public. To this is added the possible distrust that some will have due to the possible weakness of the screen, a defect that at the time was very pronounced in the first generation of the Galaxy Fold and that cost an arm and a leg to repair.
The marketing of a folding iPad by Apple would most likely lead to an increase in price of the device due to the already known factor, which is that producing devices with flexible screens is still much more expensive than rigid ones despite the fact that prices are falling. As a consequence, the giant of the bitten apple would not be willing, at least for now, to replace the iPad Mini from its catalog with another model of tablet with a flexible screen.
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Few rule out the marketing of a future iPad with a flexible screen, to the point that Samsung itself predicted the existence of said device for the year 2024. In fact, Apple has been considering its presence in the flexible device market for years, but at as with its augmented reality devices, it seems to be having a hard time taking the plunge, possibly due to doubts about commercial success.
Continuing with more possible foldable devices from Apple, analyst Ben Wood of CCS Insight put another point of view on the table, saying that the Cupertino giant You should set the price of the foldable iPhone at $2,500 if you don’t want that smartphone to end up cannibalizing the rigid models.. When it comes to the foldable iPad, Wood shares Kuo’s vision and sees it as possible for the standard iPad Mini and the foldable iPad to coexist on the market.
Some see a foldable iPad reduced to a pocketable form factor as an interesting and versatile product. In its day, tablets fell commercially because they were nothing more than a product driven by marketing and certain prophecies, since they were actually too big to compete with smartphones and too limited compared to a PC. The increase in the size of smartphone screens was another factor that played against it.
