{"id":723,"date":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/01\/20\/ive-finally-figured-out-why-foldable-phones-actually-exist\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:09:47","slug":"ive-finally-figured-out-why-foldable-phones-actually-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/01\/20\/ive-finally-figured-out-why-foldable-phones-actually-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve finally figured out why foldable phones actually exist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since the first foldable phones were foisted upon us, I’ve been struggling to understand their purpose.<\/p>\n

They’re cool<\/em>, sure \u2014 and technologically speaking, they’re incredibly impressive. But from a practical, ten-fingered human perspective, what benefit do they actually provide? I’ve yet to hear a single unambiguous answer. And that’s to say nothing of all the significant downsides and compromises<\/a> they require.<\/p>\n

At first, I assumed the foldable phone fad was similar to other questionable-benefit smartphone trends of the moment \u2014 counterproductive elements like “waterfall displays<\/a>,” cutouts in the active viewing areas of screens<\/a> in exchange for smaller borders around said panels, and heck, even 5G<\/a> \u2014 in that it was ultimately conceived as a way to make appliance-like devices seem new, exciting, and meaningfully different from their predecessors (and thus suddenly worth buying at a time when most of us are content to stick with our current phones for increasingly long periods).<\/p>\n

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Ever since the first foldable phones were foisted upon us, I’ve been struggling to understand their purpose. They’re cool, sure \u2014 and technologically speaking, they’re incredibly impressive. But from a practical, ten-fingered human perspective, what benefit do they actually provide? I’ve yet to hear a single unambiguous answer. And that’s to say nothing of all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}