Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold 6 is a perfectly fine foldable, but from the brand that started the whole category, is that still enough?
why bring up an argument for sole home use for an object that is more often used on the go? Especially in context of a tablet, when if you were at home and wanted a large form factor screen, the TV becomes an option.
Is this a joke question? Tablets have always been used at home. Do you have a TV in every single room of your house?
it’s to give an example, some people may not have a tv all over their house, which to go into other rooms, they have other options. if it’s not a phone, it can potentially be other devices like a laptop and not just necessarily a tablet. The problem is using such a very specific usecase (someone who uses a tablet to watch things, ONLY at home, prefers to not use a TV, prefers to not use a desktop computer connected to a monitor and does NOT have a laptop, or chooses to not use the size of said laptop) is a very very super specfic usecase. Especially in a world now with WFM, the number of people with laptops is likely a lot higher too. The folding phone solves the problem as I stated before, those who choose to not want to carry something extra on the go, but get the extra screen real estate. At home use has to compete with several alternatives, and if you are considering using a tablet at home a lot, the novelty of a folding phone was never even in your market.
The problem is using such a very specific usecase (someone who uses a tablet to watch things, ONLY at home, prefers to not use a TV, prefers to not use a desktop computer connected to a monitor and does NOT have a laptop, or chooses to not use the size of said laptop) is a very very super specfic usecase.
That’s not a niche use case. Tablets have been the primary media consumption device at home away from the TV for many years. That is literally what they have been marketed as for over a decade now. Very few people sit in bed and watch TV shows on their laptop, or go to a desktop computer to do the same. You are living in a bubble if you think this is normal behaviour for the majority of people.
The folding phone solves the problem
It doesn’t solve any problem with at-home media consumption because there is no problem. Most people already own a tablet or, as you just argued, a laptop. Even if they don’t, there is a massive secondhand market for tablets now. Why would you ever need to go out and spend thousands on a fragile folding device to fulfil this role? It sounds like you have massively fallen for the marketing here.
