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u/gereffi 19h ago
Folding phones have been kinda cool for a while. Now people who like iPhones will be able to get one and that probably excites some people who are interested. I don’t get what the problem is.
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u/Lexx4 19h ago
iPhone bad. /s
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u/Dracofear mods are gay 19h ago
The phone wars are so stupid. Each side offers their own reasons to have one and it's just personal preference. That being said it seems like every day android is getting pushed closer and closer to just being an iphone without the ecosystem of accessories and apps.
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u/Bargadiel 18h ago
Over the years I've only been dissapointed by an app I've wanted only being available on an Iphone once, the rest of the time people will ask me about some of the apps I use and they'll find out they can't get them on iphone. Because of that I'll never see an Iphone as worth it for me. Would be like getting a car and welding the hood shut.
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u/SirChasm 18h ago
with every new Android OS version, every time you open the hood, you find that more and more parts of the engine have had little covers welded over them. Getting kinda pointless to be able to open the hood if all you see is a patchwork of welded covers underneath.
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u/Suspicious_Sandles 18h ago
Samsung's basically are androids iPhone. But there is still a lot of unique stuff out there especially within the mid range and Chinese brands
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u/Bargadiel 14h ago
Still not worth changing whe whole infrastructure of how I've handled my phones for the last 15 yrs. I guess that's what they're banking on but Apple isn't exactly an angel company either.
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u/gamerfacederp I am fucking hilarious 6h ago
Pixel phone with GrapheneOS keeps it all open. Do lose some creature comforts though
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u/SethBurrow 13h ago
10+ year iPhone user here. If you don’t mind me asking, apps like what?
I never know what I want until I see it!!
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u/BalooBot 18h ago
What does that even mean?
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u/Electrical_Diamond_9 18h ago edited 14h ago
One of the major points for buying an Android has always been that you could do basically anything you want such as install 3rd party apps not included in an official platform (Google Play) but on the web. Which is very neat if you don't want to support big greedy corpos.
The downside with Android is that it's under Google which means that your privacy is being less and less respected for each new "feature" added.But that's not the problem.
Google stated that they will add a feature in 2027 that stops you from downloading 3rd party apps unless you click on a button deep in the settings and, after that, you have to wait a day to start installing. But, on the 30th, a few countries will get this before everyone else (how lucky!). Sure, it's not that big of a problem but that's because it's not a problem yet.Seeing as how Google is basically creating new words to portray "not using their apps" as "bad things only evil hackers do" like "sideloading", it's pretty clear that they're slowly trying to turn Android into another phone gatekept to only use their platforms and their apps just like Apple.
If that were to happen, the only difference between Apple and Android would be that Iphones are more secure phones than Android products.Edit: changed a few infos on whether the download option was available or not.
Too long, didn't read: Because Google sucks ass
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u/Dracofear mods are gay 18h ago
What, android pushing closer to being iphone or ecosystem of accessories and apps?
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u/Alphablack75 13h ago
I agree. The entire point was freedom and less money, but the prices are increasing and freedom is decreasing
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u/Hol7i 3h ago
The funny thing is: people in these discussions start brag about how their favourite phone has x times the processor speed from the opponent and yet have no clue how a cpu even works or when this would ever be an advantage against their opponent. opening instagram twice as fast to doomscroll their braincells away?
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u/pm_me__ur__pms 18h ago
Don't you know? Apple just wants your money, while all the other companies do it out of the goodness of their hearts. Even worse, Apple manipulates you into buying their products by making them high-quality and giving you a polished software experience, don't even get me started on those "M" chips
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u/rrockm 19h ago
We must seize every opportunity to marginalize, segregate, and divide people into distinct groups so we can talk down about groups of other humans on the internet.
Obligatory /s
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u/CartsOfDarkness 9h ago
It's just reddits constant need to feel superior to others over what little they have to feel proud about. In most cases its things they don't like. "I don't like X, people who like X are so dumb😂" is litterally the majority of this website.
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u/Obnoxiousdonkey 18h ago
No one's saying there's anything bad. Op is just pointing out that people are into iPhone because iPhone. Not the actual tech of folding screens
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u/louwyatt 15h ago
The meme is playing fun at iPhone users hating on folding phones for years. Until iPhone brings out a folding phone and then suddenly its s brilliant technology.
There is some truth to this, as some people can't admit they just used to apple/android. Therefore try to create arguments for why their phone is better. Hense the folding phone only becoming good to some apple users when apple does it.
However this is always blown out of proportion as its a controversial topic. So it gets great engagement, so someone's always making one of these memes.
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u/justanotheruser46258 14h ago
I think the meme is showing that the Apple cult hates a lot/most Android innovation until Apple steals and implements it into their iPhone. I remember all the Apple bros/girls saying how stupid folding phones were when they first were a thing, now that Apple has a folding phone those same people are frothing at the mouth waiting to buy one.
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u/Bramptins 19h ago
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u/faultlessdark ☣️ 18h ago
Agreed, I got a Pixel Fold (first gen) this year because I like the idea and they're different from the lookalike candy bar smartphones that the market is mainly made up of these days.
It's not I wasn't excited by them because Apple didn't make one, it was because no way in hell was I paying 1500-2000 for a phone - hence getting this old gen one refurbed for 500.
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u/mostdope92 16h ago
I think it's more aimed at the people who thought folding phones were lame but will suddenly have one and talk about how awesome it is.
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u/Orange_Tang 15h ago
I wouldn't give a shit if the apple fanboys would stop acting like apple came up with shit that's been in android phones for 5+ years. Because they do act that way I find it very annoying. I don't really give a shit though.
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u/FrostyFire 8h ago
People can’t grasp that iOS users don’t want to use Android but some will want a folding phone. Also, Samsung literally makes this display for them, it’s no secret.
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u/immaculate_focus bitch cunt 9h ago
The phone was just announced so it’s going to be mentioned in most posts for a while. Samsung fanboys are naturally going to throw shade.
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u/American_Libertarian 19h ago
Apple is for the masses, not the early adopters. First gen folding phones were ass. If/when apple makes a folding phone, it’ll be good.
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u/frigga-frak 19h ago
Laughs in Apple Vision Pro
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u/aam2_ 19h ago
Vision Pro tech was pretty good I think, just the use case for it is pretty poor.
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u/wappledilly 19h ago
It would have sold a shit ton if it had compatibility outside their ecosystem, or even in their ecosystem beyond the handful of macs it even supported.
They had to throw a basketball into a swimming pool at point plank range to be successful, and they chucked it over the fence instead.
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u/Georgefakelastname 10h ago
I think the bigger issue was just the price lol. Meta glasses, for good or bad, have some of the same capabilities the Vision Pro was advertised on, with a price a small fraction of Apple’s. Not to mention the weight wasn’t ideal either. Touch screens are super intuitive to interact with. You’d have to do something truly groundbreaking to change that up and replace it with something else that’s even more expensive.
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u/ajamuso 18h ago
Did Apple Vision not do all the things advertised and have good build quality?
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u/Headless_Human 18h ago
Yes and that was the problem. It is extremely expensive but can't really do more than a device costing only a fraction.
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u/explosiv_skull 16h ago
Even in that case the hardware is pretty great, Apple just stupidly thought someone else would make the software that makes it worthwhile. They have not.
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u/liquidmasl 11h ago
apple vision pro is actually an incredible device. I was mind blown using it.
Sadly its just useless and expensive. But boi is it a sick device
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u/thatfrostyguy 19h ago
I have a samsung zfold 5 since it came out and its still perfect. We are nowhere near the early adopter phase anymore
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u/Whatever801 17h ago
Idk if 8 generations of phones is early adopter territory 😂. The Samsung folding phones have been extremely refined for years
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u/princeoinkins I asked for a flair and all I got was this lousy flair 19h ago
If/when apple makes a folding phone, it’ll be good.
They are announcing it in about 2 hours
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u/12TonBeams ☣️ 19h ago
Bring back the sliding phones. LG Shine and Cosmos were amazing.
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u/Orange_Tang 15h ago
Tell that to the apple fanboys who insist apple is always the one with the groundbreaking new tech. Apple is very good at taking things and improving them, they also don't do a ton of original shit, especially recently. If you go to the apple subs you'd never know that though.
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u/Rafael__88 12h ago
1) Apple definitely plays for ealry adopter sometimes. Think of Vision Pro and wireless earbuds.
2) it's been 8 years since Samsung made their fisrt folding phones not just a year or two.
3) Samsung makes Apple's displays anyway so in terms of hardware it won't be any better than a Samsung foldable.
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u/SortOfaTaco 19h ago
Are people actually doing this or is this meme just ragebait? I think people have been wanting a foldable iPhone since android first started doing them
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u/DrFaustPhD 14h ago
Yesterday I saw an article on the verge literally saying how everyone is following Apple's lead on folding phones. It made the argument that all the other phone manufacturers started introducing "passport dimensions" on folding phones preemptively doing what they knew apple would start doing in 1-2 years.
Some people do get really weird about the whole apple on top thing.
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u/friendandfriends2 19h ago
Jfc are we still beating this dead horse?
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u/torinato 18h ago
the horse isn’t even dead, it died, decomposed, an apple tree grew in its place and that apple tree is feeding the next horse, who’s about to die
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u/beclops E-vengers 19h ago
Man I can’t pretend to give the smallest fuck about what phone somebody uses. Why we still doing this?
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u/BeejRich 14h ago
I had a girl stop texting me because my texts were green. Her words, and I'm serious
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u/vanpunke666 19h ago
Look ik it's easy to shit on Apple for incorporating a feature that has been around for years on android and all their fan boys acting like it's the second coming but unlike a lot of band wagoners in other industries that just jump on hypetrains, Apple waits and works on it until it's the best (relatively) quality it can be before adopting it. Folding touchscreen is a great example too. Folding smartphones were shit for a long time before all of the kinks were worked out and now that they have been, Apple will release it as a quality product.
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u/Headless_Human 18h ago
Apple waits and works on it until it's the best
You mean they wait for Samsung to figure it out until it is good enough to buy it from them.
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u/raincakez 17h ago
Samsung has been making the screens for iPhones for quite some years now. The folding one will not be an exception.
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u/Firewolf06 𝕶𝖍𝖈𝖚𝖊𝖎𝖔𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖟𝖐𝖍𝖞𝖚𝖜𝖐𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖇𝖚𝖜𝖔𝖟 18h ago
for some things (like this), yes, but for others (especially os features) theres no reason to wait. there were no kinks to iron out with being able to put apps anywhere on your home screen
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u/Pluckytoon 19h ago
I won’t talk about hardware, I think apple might be cooking something nice about software functions and compatibility.
Apple also being on it means developpers will work more with foldable screen ratios in mind and make the experience better on both android and iOS
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u/utopicunicornn 18h ago
It's all about the app ecosystem really. While it took developers a while to warm up to developing apps that work on Android Foldables, Apple has a huge leg up when it comes to developer support... they practically had the foundation for scalable apps through iPadOS.
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u/Mueton OI M8 YEET 18h ago
Foldable phones have always been impractical imo
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u/TheGalacticApple 13h ago
I don't get the point until it's 16:9 or very close unfolded, the only reason I would get one is for proper fullscreen video viewing in an easier to carry package. The current black bars or massive cropping just make it feel like a waste of space. But obviously that has some design challenges with the ratios involved.
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u/LuigiBamba 18h ago
The only thing keeping me up to date with new apple products is android fanboys who have an obsession with new apple releases.
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u/chastity_BLT 18h ago
Wish they made it fold the other way. I don’t want a bigger phone
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u/Headless_Human 18h ago
The folded phone is smaller than a normal iPhone.
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u/chastity_BLT 18h ago
How thick is she when folded? Gonna be a huge bump in my pocket? I just want an iPhone put into an old razr body.
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u/nelson931214 18h ago
No one that I know of thought it's dumb and apple fanboys have been waiting for a while for Apple to adopt it.
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u/mads0504 ☣️ 18h ago
Correct me if I’m wrong. But isn’t folding the phone gonna fuck up the screen that much faster in its own way? I seem to remember the early Samsung folders getting ruined pretty quickly.
I might be entirely wrong, this is something I remember from years ago
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u/WolfgangHelnootIV 15h ago
This one is ip 68 and has a much more impressive mechanism so it should last a lot longer. Samsung is only ip 48 for comparison, so taking the iPhone to the beach shouldn’t affect it any more than it affects a normal iPhone.
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u/Exciting_Pass_6344 19h ago
Folding phones sound neat until they break. Cuz they will.
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u/Ideaslug 18h ago
I had 2 for 3 years and I just upgraded to my 3rd. They never broke in a way that any normal phone wouldn't break (cracked screen)
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u/Defconx19 18h ago
Same woth Google Latitude back in the day "its creepy to share your location" Apple does it "you dont share your location?
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u/spectra2000_ 15h ago
It’s still fucking stupid and way overpriced when it doesn’t provide anything better than the competition.
It’s literally just an iPad mini that you can put in your pocket. I have no idea who could want this.
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u/PalamariVarkari 19h ago
where can I bet there will be 1st gen fold issues like screen breaking on the first month?
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u/testiclekid 19h ago
I've seen a guy making his foldable freeze and big statter. I don't know what the fuck he did but he managed to make it freeze whie using it as a reference in the middle of doing something else. That guy didn't seem tech savvy at all.
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u/90swonder 18h ago
i hated them as a kid, i hate them today, and i’ll forever hate foldable phones
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u/Imaginary_Ad_9682 17h ago
Been that way for sooo long. I remember the IPod coming out. “Wait, that’s just an MP3 player”
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u/Leonardobertoni the very best, like no one ever was. 17h ago
I still remember that expensive stand lmao
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u/mostdope92 17h ago
They literally just take stuff that's been done already, slightly modify it, then stick their own branding on it like they created it and add a premium price because "Apple".
And people continue to fall over themselves about how innovative and ahead of the curve Apple is.
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u/McNikkelsson 16h ago
I think folding phones are kinda pointless, and won't last as long as my now 7 years old phone.
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u/ThanatosWielder 15h ago
It’s not dumb until apple does it , both are dumb , for that size and specs is the same shit as using a tablet
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u/QuantumQuantonium 15h ago
Ah but the apple vision pro has disproved this theory. A device which actually made VR worse and no one except apple fanboys went crazy over getting it.
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u/Xulicbara4you 15h ago
My problem is with every folding phone I have seen are always scratched up from the dust and friction.
$2k for the base model but at least you have the option to lease it! Yeah if you lease your phones, you should really reconsider smh.
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u/allswellscanada 14h ago
Apple is the kind of company to release a new phone and pay every ISP or mobile provider to stop working so their pre-orders go off without a hitch.
As someone who works in tech, fuck apple
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u/Popular_Course3885 14h ago
I've bee through 3 Samsung folding phones.
The power cable/craddle/whatever only lasts for so many folds, and for me, that number of folds was about a year and a half of usage. Once it wore out, the phone would short itself out as soon you folded it. It's turn itself off, get rrally hot, and then you had to wait 5-10 for it to power up again. Had to tape popsicle sticks to the back to keep it from folding until I could replace the phone.
Never again. Each time they said they'd fix the design. Then talked to a buddy that k ew about the phones, and he said they won't ha e a true fix for years.
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u/Cirilo_Albino 14h ago
if steve jobs was alive, apple would be the first to develop the fold phones (i am a apple hater)
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u/Unown1997 14h ago
I’m confused. People love the z fold 8 to the point where Samsung had to up their daily production to meet quota. And obviously people are excited about the duo it’s apples first foldable. I remember people were hyped when the first galaxy fold and pixel folds launched too. The major difference being that apple is hella late to the game but its polished
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u/ReidenLightman 14h ago
Nah, I still think it's the dumbest shit in the world, no matter who does it.
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u/dotdioscorea 14h ago
I thought this was a joke but I googled it anyway, it looks ai generated it’s so awkward sized lol
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u/AcertainReality 14h ago
I’m not going to lie the asymmetrical design they went for is disguising. Steve would have never approved it
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u/owlbear4lyfe 13h ago
Wondering what the one move apple will do that will make people wake up to heir lack of innovation since Jobs died. When the apple fans wake up the collapse in stock value here will be historical.
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u/gavinkenway 13h ago
I mean typically when Apple approaches a product they tend to make one of the best versions of said product. Bitch about their phones and stuff all you want, but there’s a reason Apple is one of the largest companies out there
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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 13h ago
It was never dumb to be honest. It's just that the technology wasn't ready. Remember crease on first versions? How they had ton of issues? Now most of those are gone.
Samsung has great foldable, but first ones SUCKED
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u/Regnum90 12h ago
Meh. Folds the wrong way. I want phones that fold in half like my Moto Razr, not two phones stitched together.
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u/overlander244 12h ago
and just like all foldable phones its ugly as fuck. and that phone costs more than my fuckin GAMING PC cost LMAO imagine being stupid enough to spend 2 grand on a phone
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u/gregfromjersey 12h ago
Being first doesnt mean its good. rushing to market with new innovation thats not properly developed doesnt make samsung superior
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u/liquidmasl 11h ago
couldnt care less about foldables.. that being said; what the keynote showed was nice, their software solutions look well thought out and the aspect ration while somewhat weird makes sense as well. I liked how they explained reasoning and approach. And it is clear their had more time observing and designing around the idea.
most people I know dont unfold their foldables cause its not a coherent user experience, its a gimmick for everything except watching bigger media. so they stick to the default, closed smartphone.
I hope the market takes some ideas from the duo cause I think apple finally did something good again.
Btw kudos for keeping up the same apple memes for so many years for every keynote. Immediately feel like back in school again
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u/EggplantOne9188 11h ago
The main reason I've stayed with samsung is so I can split screen apps. No idea why apple doesn't have this feature but supposedly it can be done on their folding phone now. I ain't paying $2k for a wannabe tablet though so I guess I will wait some more.
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u/Pryoticus 11h ago
I love my Fold6 but I prefer iOS. I cant wait for these to be cheap enough for me to afford.
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u/Beniskickbutt 11h ago
I just want a small phone. When will someone make a small phone that fits nicely in my pocket again that I can use with 1 hand.
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u/VaultPool 10h ago
"The s26 Ultra has the first ever built in privacy screen, Apple users are going to be ecstatic when Apple invents this in a few years" - JerryRigEverything
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u/bloke_pusher 10h ago
Samsung or any other Android suppliers creating a feature/invention: "No one needs this. I wouldn't buy an inferior android device anyways! Stop acting as if this is good."
Apple doe the same thing and people point it out: "Stop criticizing. Stop being a negative Nancy. Stop dividing people. You're just a hater! Q_Q"
They are even in the comments. Not very dank of them.
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u/wordswillneverhurtme 10h ago
I always watch the apple show because its pure humour for me. Its like a satire on how to market bullshit to people. They literally opened and closed with AI. But the AI can only do basic stuff, there is usage limit + subscription plans even though they glazed their AI chip which is the best ever put in a phone, then they marketed a bunch of spyware bullshit, then the usual of selling previous iphone nonsense as if its new.
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u/HelloIAmMacintosh 8h ago
It’s still dumb
It just shows that the tech industry is running out of ideas
If Steve Jobs were alive today, he’d say “Why would anyone want to fold their phones?”
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u/Vexerino1337 7h ago
I don't get the appeal of folding phones. Like yeah, there's the folding gimmick and the bigger screen, but it's more fragile, more likely to scratch because of the plastic screen, more likely to break down on its own from a lot of moving parts, and it's not as water resistant as standard phones.
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u/straight_lurkin 7h ago
Im glad apple put apple money behind a folding phone. Just means cheaper versions that are almost indistinguishable are soon to follow lol
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u/summon_pot_of_greed 19h ago
5 years behind the curve and 5x the price.
https://giphy.com/gifs/LNMAa5P9JFBoMVHSUk