Samsung: Apple's first foldable will be ready by 2024, but it's not an iPhone

Apple still remains outside the promising foldable smartphone market, for which it was even ridiculed by

Samsung side.However, Samsung itself is actively preparing for this significant event. According to Korean media, Samsung held a meeting with partners to discuss the present and future of folding smartphones. There, in particular, it was said that Apple would set off on this journey in 2024, but the first device would not be an iPhone, but a Mac laptop or an iPad tablet. It is curious that other informants previously spoke about the possibility of just such a development of events, but now it looks more concrete.

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Also at the briefing, someinformation on the state of the market at that moment. So, folding devices occupy about 1% of the total number of smartphones, but the growth prospect is indicated at the level of 80% annually until 2025. In addition, young people from 20 to 30 years old are 3-4 times more likely than before to prefer this category of smartphones (data for South Korea), and 90% of current owners will choose Fold or Flip next purchase. In general, a good level of satisfaction and provides optimism for the coming years. Following these figures and Apple, which can not afford to fail in a new category for itself.

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