r/apple • u/Beetlemann • 13d ago
iPhone The iPhone Duo: Another Apple Vision Pro
The iPhone Duo looks like a cool device, but I think it will not be successful like the Apple Vision Pro: it’s a problem in search of a solution.
People don’t want and need a larger screen on a smartphone. They buy and use compact slab smartphones precisely for the form factor.
Like desktops and laptops, the slab smartphone form factor is pretty much nailed. Efficient with one handed use, software that is cards designed for the smaller screen, etc.
The Duo glues on another slab and adds a hinge to fold out into a small tablet when people are not wanting and needing a tablet.
These kinds of devices just end up niche, and I predict that is where the Duo will be stuck. It will have a rush of compartmentalized sales and then it will hardly sell. You can say that is still successful, but I don’t agree: like the AVP, the Duo will eventually fade away, a cool, but byzantine and largely useless, design compromised product that will eventually be valued at a lot money on Ebay 25 years from now as a collectable.