Finally a massive flaw that apple can't lie about or hide from the public, like they usually do. What is sad is they're already about 3-4 years behind Android in releasing a foldable device and they still somehow fucked it up

Looks like Apple should have made sure their precision engineered hinge was also accurate engineered.

No one could have ever seen this coming

I am an old IT guy. This was a hard and fast rule: Never buy version 1.0 of anything.

Hardly matters, the sort of people who buy such a pointless, gimicky and overly expensive phone will keep buying Apple regardless.

Every phone maker seems convinced that if they can be the one to make this work, they'll be the champion of world forever, or something.

I can't understand why a user would even want this. How many users do want this?

Precision engineered hype and sales.

That's the exact failure that happened on the bend test for Zak on JerryRigEverything. Crazy it's happening without the full-muscle stress test.

Apple probably didn't plan for their planned obsolescence to work THIS quickly.

this is like the Samsung Fold all over again...

Tbh, I figured Apple taking their time on these was because they were trying to improve the engineering over the Android folding screen offerings.

Now I wonder if they just wait because everyone assumes Apple would try and make it better, and then they just sell a bunch + the Apple tax, even though it's just as bad of a product. Like, the marketing team just saying: "wait a couple years".

it's folded 10,000 times by an expert Japanese phonesmith before it reaches the consumer. It does make it a little brittle but do you want a phone that's not been properly broken in? It's just the price you pay for tradition and brand loyalty.

But but but my pocket companion? My AI slop firehose?

Precision seemingly doesn't really matter if the design is shit.

I'm so glad I never fell for this gimmick. The tech looked sketchy from the beginning.

It's a first generation product. Remember the first Galaxy Fold and what a disaster that was? It's kinda like that (only more expensive).

Apple should have the benefit of hindsight but apparently not.

3ds FTW!!!