Apple is very late to the foldable phones now, not sure that's the best example

throw0101c 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Apple is very late to the foldable phones now, not sure that's the best example

“PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” — Palm CEO Ed Colligan, 2006, https://www.engadget.com/2006-11-21-palms-ed-colligan-laughs...

“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.” — Gandalf the Gray

	▲	realusername 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		By "late", I mean they are starting to lose market share because of that in some regions, that kind of late.

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CharlesW 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Regardless, the point of mentioning it is that Apple commonly makes decisions that can seem bizarre to people who don't consider systemic and longer-term reasons why they might've been made. Another micro-example of this that comes to mind is Tahoe's mostly-reviled chonky window borders, which along with many other gradual UX changes over years, absolutely foreshadow touchscreen Macbooks.

	▲	realusername 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They've also been late sometimes and had to change by force their assumptions, the first app store in iOS was cydia and a lot of what we consider modern iOS design was copied over from the jailbreaking community.