Rumor: Apple wants to make a laptop or tablet with a folding screen by 2024 – Tablets and Phones – News

Apple would like to make a tablet or laptop with a foldable screen by 2024. Samsung would have told suppliers. According to Samsung, there is currently no foldable smartphone from Apple. Samsung has been making them for several years now.

The leaders of the South Korean company made the statements according to TheElec during a meeting with suppliers. Rumors have been circulating about Apple’s foldable products for some time. Bloomberg had previously stated that Apple is working on a laptop with a 20 “foldable screen. A few years ago there were also rumors of iPhone prototypes with foldable screens, but those rumors haven’t been around lately.

At that meeting, Samsung said that customers are happy with the company’s current foldable smartphones and that 90% of users plan to buy a foldable smartphone again in the future. Samsung expects the foldable smartphone market to grow at an annual rate of 80%. That growth rate is lower than in recent years, when the number of foldable smartphones grew by 300 percent each time. If growth reaches an average of 80% over the next few years, about 7.5% of smartphones will be foldable by 2025.

According to Samsung, there are still some hurdles to overcome to make foldable smartphones even more popular. For example, devices should become thinner, stronger and lighter, and the crease of the screen should become less visible. The cameras should be better and there should be space in the slot to store the S-pen.

Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold4 in Galaxy Z Flip4 introduced. Tweakers posted a review of both foldable smartphones. In a separate background article Tweakers continues to discuss why foldable smartphones remain a niche in the smartphone market for the time being.