Foldable phones needed a 'Macbook Air moment', and Apple totally missed it

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Foldable phones needed a 'Macbook Air moment', and Apple totally missed it
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and how the world's biggest tech company totally missed a golden opportunity there, but I have to start with something that took place sixteen years ago. Do you remember the very first Macbook Air?at MacWorld 2008, its debut was one of the greatest moments in computer history, if you ask me, maybe second-best after the original iPhone announcement.

The live events are gone in favor of scripted and pre-recorded announcements, where every word is carefully judged and it even seems Apple CEOs are told what is the right way to stand on the stage. It all seems so perfect, there are no empty moments in the presentation, no moment when someone would stutter and hesitate for a moment, no suspense and ultimately, far less emotion. It turns out that when you take away the risk out of a certain endeavor, it loses a lot of its charm.

That is a real pity because the folding phone space needed a"Macbook Air" moment in the first few years of its existence. The Honor Magic V3 that you see in the picture above is just 9.3mm when folded, and an incredible 4.4mm when open. It is. It will not be this year, it probably will not be next year either, buy maybe in 2026 or 2027.

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