More than one seems to be betting on the future existence of a folding ipadhowever, everything now points to Apple the device will not be launched on the market until at least 2025. The reason, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, would be the disproportion that 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.

Although foldable smartphones have gained popularity over the years, they are still not quite within the reach of the general public. Added to this is the possible mistrust that some will have due to the possible weakness of the screen, a flaw that was very prominent in the first generation Galaxy Fold at the time and cost an arm and a leg to fix.

Marketing Apple’s foldable iPad likely to lead to an increase in price devices due to the already known factor that devices with flexible screens are still much more expensive to manufacture than fixed ones, even though prices are falling. As a result, the bite-sized apple giant would not be willing, at least for now, to replace the iPad Mini from its catalog with another model of a tablet with a flexible screen.

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Few are ruling out the marketing of a future iPad with a flexible screen, to the point that Samsung itself has predicted the existence of the said device for 2024. In fact, Apple has been considering its presence in the flexible device market for years, but u As with its augmented reality device, it seems that he is having trouble taking off, perhaps due to doubts about commercial success.

CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood, who continues on more possible foldable devices from Apple, brought another angle to the table when he said that the Cupertino giant You should price the foldable iPhone at $2,500 if you don’t want this smartphone to end up cannibalizing the fixed models.. When it comes to the foldable iPad, Wood shares Kuo’s vision and sees the standard iPad Mini and the foldable iPad being able to co-exist in the market.

Some see the foldable iPad shrunk into a pocketable form as an interesting and versatile product. In their day, tablets failed commercially because they were nothing more than a product driven by marketing and certain prophecies, because they were actually too big to compete with smartphones and too limited compared to PCs. Another factor playing against was the increase in the size of smartphone screens.