Do we really need a computer if we have everything we need for day-to-day life on the phone? It is an existential doubt that has accompanied us since the Palm Pilot era and that Apple seems to revive again. A patent application shows a MacBook to ‘swallow’ an iPhone in its chassis in order to make it the core engine of the team. If you think about it, the idea is a winner, especially now that Apple has turned to ARM processors and it seems that developers will find it very easy to program indiscriminately for iOS and macOS.
As we have advanced, this patent was initially filed by Apple in 2018, but perhaps the most interesting thing is that those from Cupertino continue to work on it, with which we can deduce that there are high hopes that it will end in a product that go to market. This document contemplates a MacBook with a space reserved for the iPhone where the signature computers currently carry the trackpad.
It seems like an excellent alternative for students or users who do not want to spend a lot of money or need a computer. Although no more details have been leaked, we can deduce that we would be looking at an accessory for the iPhone, a device to which a screen and keyboard would be added so that it would be transformed from phone to computer with a simple click. As we have advanced, Apple keeps this idea alive since in January of the same year it has presented an update to the patent and it has been MacRumors who has recalled through Twitter that this patent is very much alive.
The most modern iPhones, on the other hand, have enough capacity and power to act as an occasional (or definitive, depending on the case) alternative to a computer that many times we have. And according to Patently Apple , the moves made by those of Tim Cook at WWDC 2020 presenting his own processor for computers would suggest that this patent could be much closer to being real than we think.
Although we are moving in the field of speculation, this accessory could be announced in the usual year-end keynote in which Apple regularly presents its new iPhone and would align itself in this trend of convergence between platforms that the company has started. Will we see it this year?
