The use case is you have a decent size screen on a device that you can pocket.
One of the main problems that foldables have right now is their screen aspect ratio is square whereas a lot of content is either tall (YouTube shorts, TikTok shorts) or wide (movies, YouTube). Having more screen means little if most of it is used for black pixels.
So, you admit that Apple did not adopt Universal Profile, but you still claim "lies" when I say Apple did not support the RCS standard? Confusing, but OK.
You like Google use the term "RCS" to mean Universal Profile AND Google RCS to mean the same thing. That is the lie you are spreading. They are not the same thing.
Your rant about encryption is off topic. I never complained about Apple not supporting that.
What is the "rant"? I posted "features like encryption". I suppose in your world that is a rant. The fact of the matter is Universal Profile does not support encryption and other features that iMessage and Google RCS have. You seem not to understand the word "features" or "other".
The reality is, if a phone supports "vanilla" RCS, it should be able to exchange photos and videos properly with other phones.
The default base protocol for that is called MMS. Please look it up. The problem with RCS is that since every carrier and device used their own version of RCS in the beginning, why should Apple implement dozens of incompatible versions of RCS again? Again MMS is the default fallback.
Apple's iMessage is even *more* proprietary than Google's RCS,
And Apple has never whined that Google didn't follow iMessage. Like you are whining now.
so sorry, I don't accept that Apple shouldn't have to adopt "Goodle's RCS" because they're focused on their own.
Please describe how Apple is supposed to decrypt Google RCS encrypted message then without adopting it? Google RCS uses the Signal Protocol however their implementation is incompatible with the Signal app. You don't know? What a shocker.
Apple could easily have responded to Google's complaints by saying "We do support standard RCS, but you don't" but they didn't, and couldn't.
What are you talking about? Apple did not support RCS for years because every device used a different version. Your argument is Apple should have publicly announced the reason when it was apparent to anyone in the industry? Again, you did no research did you?
No one expects Apple to use Google's extensions related to encryption. Apple didn't support the *vanilla* RCS standard, making it impossible to share full-resolution photos and videos using RCS.
And herein are the lies. 1) Google's calls their protocol "RCS" which they used interchangeably with GSMA RCS (Universal Profile) in all their arguments. 2) While Apple did not adopt Universal Profile, which other carriers and devices supported standard Universal Profile? None of them. They implemented their own incompatible versions of Universal Profile. Why? Because Universal Profile did not have features of iMessage. It was not until Google developed Google RCS that had features like encryption that carriers and devices used a common protocol. Unfortunately Google RCS is still proprietary and controlled only by Google. The default fallback for messaging over cellular radio is MMS.
How about you focus on the facts, instead of pretending you know my motivations.
The facts like always do not support your arguments. I could assume you do no research as this seems to be a habit. Or you simply do not care that you post misrepresentations.
Then what is your definition of "artificial"? Bear in mind the entire article is one person's speculation on what Apple might do. The limitation right now is Apple's contract with TSMC is to make a certain amount of A18 Pros. TSMC has allocated those lines to other customers after they finish with Apple's order. I would guess if Neo demand were high enough, Apple would take 6 GPU core A18 Pro chips and disable one of the GPU cores to keep selling Neos. Implementing a new production line or designing a 5 GPU core A18 Pro would be costly.
The use case is you have a decent size screen on a device that you can pocket. If you look at the latest foldables, they aren't much thicker than non-foldables. About as thick as an iPhone from a few generations ago.
They seem to have reached the point where the tech is reasonably mature and not excessively fragile. Now they just need to get the price down.
I get your point, but... Nature wasn't all built for humans. So as humans, we're allowed to judge some parts of nature from our perspective and declare them to be "hellish nightmares" (for humans).
An erupting volcano is perfectly natural...
Additional fun fact that might matter: Old World porcupines do not climb trees, but New World porcupines do.
So if you're European and are puzzling about how the porcupine got that high up? It climbed all by itself.
Puts anyone accused of being Satoshi at great risk.
When you win the lottery in the UK, they help you hide the wealth. Special bank accounts, advice on how to avoid other people finding out, that sort of thing. There is a risk of both crime and people coming to beg for money.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum