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Apple is right to ditch folding iPad plans in favor of the iPhone Fold
I have yet to see a foldable phone that wasn't cringe when open and in use. Such awfulness. No amount of Apple shininess will justify the outrageous Apple price for a foldable phone utilizing the current typical technology. Apple will have lost it if they foolishly proceed down this path.
Now I'm really going to step in it, so don't hit me with a rock. The Microsoft Duo had the coolest potential; two glass screens with a hinge. The problem was Microsoft did it, and they did it with Android. It was all so laughably terrible. Consumers cried out for this device to run Windows or resurrected Windows Phone. Nope. And in the way of Microsoft of late, they created a cool device with potential, and then neglected in until it withered and died. I guess Microsoft is good at following through with that.
So imagine a Duo like device, but with the Apple charm of design. Two actual screens side by side that fold together like a small book ever so nicely, running Apple software, and using Apple silicon. The gaming possibilities. Productivity and multitasking possibilities. Could do some slick photo editing. Some nifty group video calls. I wouldn't even mind so much watching a full screen video, but I know Apple can master edge to edge, so I'd probably mentally delete that glitch anyway. I think I'd want this thing.
Now everybody was hot for Microsoft to do a larger two screen device, but it never saw consumer release. Didn't Apple just back burner their folding iPad, maybe a two screen iPad? Microsoft went with the phone version and criminally neglected it to death. If Apple created an iPhone device like this, I'd want it very bad. Way more so than any current iPhone or imaginable iPhone in the current form factor. Not a yucky single screen Android foldable. Yes, I want two screens, Apple tech, silicon, software, and compatibility. Do this Apple. Do this the Apple way.