After their run as a luxury product, I can see them sticking around as a niche one; I don't see them becoming a design standard.
I think the hinged concept MS has more merit and legs.
for now at least. I'm sure in a decade or so flexible screens will have become possible.
Have you seen MS's trailer for that Surface Duo? You can tell that the thing is going to become one big greasy smudge or will get dropped quite often. They show some woman holding it lightly like a book. Difference beign that a book doesn't smudge or register your thumb pressing on parts of it's pages that will result in unwanted actions beign taken by the book. And if you drop a book it doesn't crack, requiring you te send it in for repair for 2 weeks and costing you a lot of money.
Yeah, but look at xbox controller's and Surfaces engineering. hopefully they have the same team on it. MS spends tens of millions on industrial design.
Kep in mind MS can do no wrong and I am a complete fanboy.
aspro said:Yeah, but look at xbox controller's and Surfaces engineering. hopefully they have the same team on it. MS spends tens of millions on industrial design.
The Xbox controller doesn't sport any glass on it. And Surface easily break when you drop them and they aren't protected by a good case.
aspro said:Kep in mind MS can do no wrong and I am a complete fanboy.
I hear you. Depending on the price I might very well end up getting a Duo whenever it releases.
I just came across this piece of design:
It's referred to as a 'horse shoe' design, which is a bit blunt if you ask me. I could certainly see something like this becoming popular, with a sleeve that overlays physical keys over part of the bottom half. Of course, this would require them to be able to fold together completely, which isn't the case for now. Here they fold 'open' to become one large screen for viewing media or to attach to a more powerfull desktop.
I find it hilarious that with all our modern technology it seems that the holy grail is to be able to offer the experience of reading your newspaper on a screen, while you could just as well read an actual newspaper.
Not long after I first encountered screens, I imagined that the future would be newspapers, boxes, and anywhere advertising would be required, with screens instead of printing. Sadly, the inverse of this has become true and everything has just been absorbed to be displayed on screens.
On seeing this topic for the first time I some how thought it was about sex dolls.
The phone type, not banknotes or newspapers. Do you think they'll take off? Do you think you'll ever be able to afford one? Will they prove usefull or go extinct before ever reaching any market penetration? How do you hold them without risking dropping them on the floor?