Folding your iPad in half is a very bad idea if you want to continue using it. But listen to me: It should be folded in half. Why? Because it would absolutely suck at folding phones.
Apple has achieved optimal thinness. The iPad Pro is thinner than most phones (and every other computer Apple makes). If you don’t fold it in half, what’s the point? Has anyone complained that the iPad is too thick? The thinnest iPad Pro is 5.1mm thick, and when you fold it in half, it’s only a few millimeters thicker than the iPhone 15 Pro Max. mission completed. If Apple insists that something like a floating tab bar is enough for people to get work done on an iPad, it might as well just make it a phone.
Speaking of iOS 18 – sorry, iPadOS 18 — Have you seen the new handwriting feature? They look great. With Apple Pencil, you can write notes, and a feature called Smart Script automatically organizes your writing. But best of all: you can erase some handwritten notes or cross something out and the text will fill the empty space. This solves one of the problems I have with writing with a stylus on my phone – it’s easy to add text, but it can get ugly quickly once you delete something from your shopping list.
But, honestly, I’m not going to write a list on my iPad and then take it grocery shopping so I can cross things off while I’m hanging out at Trader Joe’s. But what if you wrote those notes on a large tablet-like screen and then folded the whole thing in half to take it with you? This makes more sense. Apple doesn’t want to acknowledge the iPad as a home device; if it folded in half, maybe we’d be more inclined to take it with us.
Apple executives probably love selling phones to people and A tablet and no intention of selling them a product. I didn’t go to business school or anything, but that’s okay. I’d say it’s hard to get excited about an iPad when I already have a phone and a computer, but what about an iPad that folds in half? Now we are talking.
