iPhone Duo

Think different :-D

f*ck you if you’re left-handed like me

John Ternus as CEO seems to be good.

9oz

The rounded corners look ridiculous on this phone. They also cut off a non-trivial part of the displayed content now.

I find the new watches more interesting

* https://www.wired.com/story/apple-watch-series-12-apple-watc...

it's a mistake though to demand an iphone to own the watch (can't configure it otherwise)

always held me back from ever buying an apple watch, don't want an iphone or ipad

will buy it for the kid cue feature alone; what a neat idea. i mainly use my iphone for reading books and taking pictures of my kids so the format will be perfect for me.

$1999

I am really quite disappointed this was not taken as an opportunity to make the default form factor smaller. Instead it seems like the folded mode is larger than a pro max, which is insane. I guess I'll just continue with the normal phones.

It seems they are segmenting the market on creator vs consumer between the pro and the duo, and betting the consumers want this form factor.

Total e-waste product.

Everyone knows how badly these things break with moderate use. You’re basically buying with the expectation you’ll have to replace it.

Boring company, lost vision.

Boooring. Apple stopped innovating. They just copy and integrate new things into their phones. Steve Jobs is turning in his grave.

I was thinking it would be priced cheaper than an 18 pro and an ipad mini

$2K is quite a lot.

Does this hand look normal?

https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/1/as-images.apple.co...

So brave of Apple to make the world's first foldable phone

You're going to look very silly taking a call on that.

Whats the point of big screen when we can't even install the app we want. Sideloading works for 7 days and there is artificial limitation of 7-8 App Ids which sucks.

my beloved surface duo has returned <3

In practice, it'll just be for TikTok (or other shorts) permanently on one side, right?

I guess people spend more money than even this on other addictions

So where's the add-on that adds a thumbstick and some buttons so I can play DS games on it?

$2000 is crazy talk

I see the nano-texture is non-negotiable -- you won't get a clear screen with the Duo. I'm incredibly skeptical of this, and I'll have to check it out once it's in-store to see if that's even something I could tolerate in daily use. When I checked out a Studio Display with nano-texture, I could not stand it because of the shimmery rainbow grain, somewhat like staring through Scotch tape, and the general fuzziness of text. Not sure if that's improved, since Apple doesn't address flaws in their past products.

Annoying that they gave this thing touch id but not the non-folding version.

Restoring Touch ID is one of the things that might make me upgrade my existing iPhone before its time.

I'm not sure whether this counts substantive enough, but WOW that thing looks absolutely comical, lol

Naturally, I can already see people deeming it to be the most beautiful thing ever though.

Truly, I'll never understand Apple, nor their design language.

Buying this immediately and getting rid of my laptop, going full AI native to do all my work. Never sitting in front of a laptop again.

What I am most interested in is what the fold line looks like and I guess we won’t know until we start getting YouTube reviews.

If there was an iPhone like a pen in form factor (like nokia 7280) I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I don't think the price is that crazy considering how often you use your phone

What other item do you own that you spend so many hours using

Not available in US: https://consumer.huawei.com/my/phones/mate-xt-ultimate-desig...

samsung fold lookalike

I don't see the appeal of this or the Phone 18 for the matter. I have an (old) iPhone 15 Pro that just works so the upgrade just doesnt seem worth it.

Also I think it would be quite bulky to carry the Duo in a pocket all day long.

I'm looking forward to doing code review on the go on a phone like this! Once a GrapheneOS-compatible brand copies it, that is.

Seems like a big engineering feat by Apple, but for real, who asked for this?

I haven't met a single non-techie person who wants/has a foldable phone. Maybe it's a me problem and there is tons of interest out there. Valid.

Watching my iOS colleagues tear their hair out with SwiftUI's lack of proper support of foldables for the next... Two years about will be highly entertaining.

I want it, but for $2,000, I want to be able to do so much more.

App developers gonna have extra work

No SIM slot. Seems like Apple is only thinking of the US market. Will not be getting the Duo as I will not be able to browse the web outside my home.

Edit: Rate limited so can't reply to the comments. I live in Spain, can't switch to eSIM. I know that the US has 100% integration of eSIM across all providers but outside the US it's not that great. I use eSIM and SIM a lot, have lots of cards and subscriptions. For my main subscription I can't switch to eSIM (yet).

Steve Jobs would roll in his grave due to lack of symmetry in this.

Looking forward to reviews after a few months of use. So far all the foldables I've seen get destroyed quite fast.

No SIM slot. So I have to carry a mobile hotspot if I want to browse the internet outside my home.

It’s like Apple forgets there is a world outside the US where eSIM is not a thing.

Honestly not even touching on what the thing actually costs on its own, I don’t like the idea of signaling to people so clearly that I had 2k +tax to spend on a cell phone

I’m not always in the best areas so this def comes up for me personally

Outside of that I think I’d give this a shot

if only it ran linux

unleashes unparallel, unrivaled, totally new, amazing, exciting new ways of interacting with the MOST POW3RFUL!!!!!

then all the photos either what's on the inside it's repeated whats on the outside,

or... and hold your breath... you can show on one side the calendar and on the other side the clock... now you can breath...

Meh, another 2 or 3$k gadget that does the same as the previous one?

$2,000 for a fucking phone. We really have collectively lost the plot.