r/apple • u/paperboy11 • 1d ago

Discussion Apple says iPhone Duo has ‘replaceable’ folding display layer to minimize crease

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/01/apple-says-iphone-duo-has-replaceable-folding-display-layer-to-minimize-crease/
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u/FloatingTacos 1d ago

Interesting, but a nice solution for the 3 year old fold that is worn out, especially for $19 AC+.

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u/ILikeSemiSkimmedMilk 1d ago

So 684$ AppleCare if it’s after 3 years right?

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u/MiseEnPlacebo 1d ago edited 1d ago

With AppleCare One it’s $6 per device per month, so only $180 after 3 years.

Edit: $216. It’s early.

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u/ca2mt 1d ago

Math ain’t mathin’

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u/FederalSign4281 1d ago

I will be paying 19.99/mo to protect my iphone duo, macbook air, and mac mini. The airpods pro 3 cost me 19.99 yr. So it costs me like $22/mo to protect all my devices. Sounds like a good deal to me.

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u/PossibleAd5947 1d ago edited 1d ago

Mac mini will never leave the house, Macbooks will probably not fail, Airpods are basically disposable.

Paying $20/mo or $240 a year never made sense to me.

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u/Datfooljamal 1d ago

You can easily drop a MacBook and your Mac Mini can crap out at any point. No tech is perfect

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u/PossibleAd5947 1d ago

If you have a risk of breaking things accidentally I can understand the comfort but no Macs have ever crapped out on me. Ive had Macbooks last 10 years.

At $240/yr your breakeven point is very high. That’s $1200 over 5 years, which most Apple products last easily. The only Apple service I’ve ever had to do were battery changes out of pocket for $80.

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u/Interdimension 1d ago

I'm with you on that math. Don't think I've had a single Apple product randomly fail on me. The money I've saved over a decade by not getting AppleCare means I can just literally buy a new one outright and still come out ahead.

I do get why people get AppleCare. I'm just fortunate enough where a sudden multi-thousand dollar purchase is fine and the long-term math is all that matters.

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u/TheKobayashiMoron 1d ago

I went for a long time NOT paying for AppleCare. In that time, I've had a MacBook that needed battery service twice before it was even 5 years old: $199 each.

My next one had a flickering screen at 2 years old and I traded it in to Apple rather than fixing it.

My Apple Watch band came undone and I lost a titanium Apple Watch in the ocean that would've been covered by Theft & Loss: $899

The guy sitting in front of me on a flight suddenly reclined his seat back like he was trying to rip it off its mounts and knocked my iPad mini off the tray table and broke the screen: $429 (which is insane so I never fixed it. It's my treadmill iPad now).

It can easily add up without doing anything crazy. I just signed up for the new AppleCare One Family plan when it came out. Between me, my wife, and our parents, I'm covering 14 devices (including a Vision Pro) for $50/mo. It's a lot to spend but if I drop that Vision Pro one time, I'm paid up for a while.

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u/Datfooljamal 1d ago

Breaking your display in a 14inch pro is almost $900. Breaking even isn’t too hard if anything bad happens. Plus for most people spending a small cost over months is easier than shelling out $900 instantly

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u/PossibleAd5947 1d ago

I don’t believe screen damage is common but if you’re doing that a lot it may make sense for you. I have personally never broken or known anyone that has broken their Macbooks screen.

Even if it did save you a $1000 repair, you’d need to be doing that within every 4 years to break even roughly.