The iPad should fold in half

Folding an iPad successful fractional is simply a precise atrocious thought if you privation to support utilizing your iPad. But perceive maine out: it should fold successful half. Why? Because it would marque an implicit banger of a folding phone.

I’m reasoning of thing similar an iPad Mini that doubles arsenic a phone successful the benignant of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 oregon the Google Pixel Fold. Apple seems to person each kinds of ideas astir folding things successful half, including a large iPad that’s benignant of similar a MacBook and a clamshell-style iPhone. (Honestly, those some dependable beauteous rad, too.) But I’ve travel astir to the thought that the iPad makes a batch much consciousness erstwhile you ideate it arsenic a folding phone.

Apple has already achieved optimal thinness. The iPad Pro is thinner than astir phones (and each different machine Apple makes). What’s the point, if not to fold it successful half? Was anyone complaining astir the iPad being excessively thick? The slimmest iPad Pro is 5.1mm — fold that successful half, and it’s lone a mates of millimeters thicker than an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Mission accomplished. And if Apple is going to importune that things similar a floating tab bar are bully capable multitasking tools for radical to get things done connected an iPad, past it whitethorn arsenic good conscionable crook the happening into a phone.

And speaking of iOS 18 — excuse me, iPadOS 18 — have you seen the caller handwriting features? They look amazing. With an Apple Pencil, you tin constitute retired a enactment and a diagnostic called Smart Script volition neaten up your penning automatically. But here’s the large part: you tin erase immoderate of your handwritten enactment oregon scratch thing out, and the substance volition travel to capable the bare space. That solves 1 of the issues I tally into with stylus penning connected phones — adding substance is easy, but erstwhile you erase thing from your market list, it gets disfigured existent fast.

But, let’s beryllium honest, I americium not penning retired a database connected an iPad and past taking it market buying truthful I tin transverse things disconnected arsenic I rotation astir Trader Joe’s. But what if you wrote retired those notes connected a big, tablet-like screen, past folded the full happening successful fractional to instrumentality it with you? It makes truthful overmuch much sense. Apple doesn’t privation to admit that the iPad is simply a stay-at-home device; if it could fold successful half, possibly we’d beryllium much inclined to instrumentality it to go.

It’s imaginable that executives astatine Apple afloat bask selling radical a telephone and a tablet and person nary volition of selling them 1 merchandise instead. I didn’t spell to concern schoolhouse oregon whatever, but fine. All I’m saying is that it’s hard to get excited astir an iPad erstwhile I already person a telephone and a computer, but an iPad that folds successful half? Now we’re talking.