Apple has an hermetic ecosystem with well-integrated software program. It’s a concrete profit to proudly owning Apple’s full stack of merchandise: iPhones, iPads, Macs, and so forth. Nevertheless, in relation to {hardware}, Apple attracts a transparent line within the sand, much less prepared than its opponents to blur the strains between product varieties.
For instance, Apple maintains that the iPad will stay a pill despite the fact that it accommodates the elements wanted to double as a laptop computer. Conversely, a removable or convertible Mac will in all probability by no means exist. Properly, in all probability.
Because of a patent filed in 2017, we all know Apple is no less than toying with the thought of making an odd hybrid gadget that may primarily flip an iPhone right into a laptop computer. You learn that accurately, an iPhone. The conceptual gadget is actually a show with a battery, and whenever you insert your iPhone right into a slot the place the trackpad could be, it transforms right into a laptop computer. The cellphone powers the complete expertise, offering processing, graphics, reminiscence, and storage.
In one other iteration, an iPad slots into a niche the place the laptop computer display would reside, offering the visuals and energy for what is actually an ordinary laptop computer deck (keyboard, touchpad, and so forth) and the body, or bezels, of a show.
