The iPad should fold in half

Folding an iPad in half is a bad idea if you want to keep using the iPad. But hear me out: it should fold in half. Why? Because it would be an absolute hit on a foldable phone.

Apple has already achieved the ideal thickness. The iPad Pro is thinner than most phones (and every other computer made by Apple). What’s the point but to fold it in half? Was someone complaining that the iPad was too thick? The thinnest iPad Pro is 5.1mm – fold it in half and it’s just a few millimeters thicker than an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Mission accomplished. And if Apple insists that things like a floating tab bar are good enough multitasking tools for people to get things done on an iPad, then it might as well make the thing a phone.

And speaking of iOS 18 – excuse me, iPadOS 18 – did you see the new handwriting features? They look amazing. With an Apple Pencil, you can write a note and a feature called Smart Script will organize your writing automatically. But here’s the great part: You can erase part of your handwritten note or cross out something, and the text will flow to fill the empty space. This solves one of the problems I face when writing with a pen on phones – adding text is easy, but once you delete something from your shopping list, it gets ugly really fast.

But let’s be honest, I’m not writing a list on an iPad and then taking it shopping so I can cross things off while walking through Trader Joe’s. But what if you wrote those notes on a large, tablet-like screen and then folded the whole thing in half to take it with you? It makes a lot more sense. Apple doesn’t want to admit that the iPad is a stay-at-home device; If it could fold in half, perhaps we would be more inclined to take it away.

It’s possible that Apple executives really enjoy selling people a phone It is a tablet and have no intention of selling them a product. I didn’t go to business school or anything like that, but that’s okay. All I’m saying is that it’s hard to get excited about an iPad when I already have a phone and a computer, but an iPad that folds in half? Now we are talking.