[raincole]

There are plenty of people who don't use a (desktop/laptop) computer outside of their jobs. If you're on HN, you're probably not one of them, so it can be difficult to imagine their behaviours.

For example, in Japan, 36.6% of teenagers say they don't use PC at home [1]. It's also a country where people read a lot of comics. Now these foldable screens make more sense, right.

[1]: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/byline/fuwaraizo/20201021-00203217

[rjh29]

Comics are actually changing to suit phones rather than the opposite! Newer web comics show one panel at a time in a long vertical strip.

And tablets are still a thing, you can just use them for comics instead of spending $1800 on a phone.

[ggm]

I'm on HN mostly on a samsung 10" tablet but in my day job I work on my mac. If I tried harder DeX might work for me.

[throwaway675309]

Apparently Japanese teenagers also have a lot more disposable income to drop nearly two grand on a cell phone.

[raincole]

Some of them do, of course. iPhone's market share is ~65% in Japan. If they successfully marketed it as an "iPhone + iPad in your pocket", $2k would not be an unimaginable price. And there will be more affordable foldable phones when they're more adopted.

But of course this one is from Google so it doesn't enjoy Apple's branding premium.