Folding screens have more uses than cell phones, and Apple could already be working on a prototype that would be a hybrid of MacBook and iPad with screen and a total size of 20″.
First it was an analyst, Ross Young, and now it’s Mark Gurman who seems to confirm this news. Apple could already be working on a new product with a foldable screen. And we’re not talking about an iPhone, but a MacBook, or rather a MacBook/iPad hybrid that fully unfolded it would measure 20 inchesand could work as a laptop when folded, and as a tablet when fully open, or even as an external monitor.
With these small data, Antonio De Rosa created this video which shows what this new product could be for him, which would break with several red lines marked by Apple: an iPad/MacBook hybrid, or a Mac with a touch screen. As can be seen in the video, while half of the device is a 995 screen, the other half has 1/3 taken up by a trackpad, and the remaining 2/3 screen. These 2/3 would become a touch keyboard to be able to use the device as a MacBook, with a design very similar to that of the current models but with the difference that instead of a mechanical keyboard I would use an on-screen keyboard, something a lot of us can’t quite believe.
The future of this device is still uncertain. It would be a prototype still at a very early stage of its development that could never see the light of day, or undergo significant modifications that would make it look very little like what we currently imagine. Analyst and Gurman estimates are that if you see this device in the real world, it wouldn’t be until at least 2026perhaps accompanying the presentation of the definitive Apple Glasses and the Apple Car.
