Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else::Don’t expect these clamshell-style foldables in 2024 or 2025 or maybe ever.

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You must be forgetting that apple already did a folding phone years ago. It was called the iphone 6. That was the highest quality phone ive ever seen them make…

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Ha, yes true enough. They do fuck up, though I think we can agree “my chassis bent by a couple degrees” and “my phone blew up” are on different levels.

      Their worst fuck up imho was then throttling things when the battery was degraded without telling people. Literally just settled a class action on that too.

      • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Not the antenna that lost signal when you held the phone in your left hand on the iphone 4. That was a pretty bad one.

        But yeah, the throttling thing is terrible.

        As for the exploding phones, whilst its definitely worse, the phone was recalled and discontinued within a month of release and no phone has experienced that problem since.

        I find it interesting that people dont stop buying apple when they mess up with the single phone they release every cycle but samsung who develop multiple phones each cycle had one bad batch and thats all people remember.

        Obviously, explosions are bad. I get that. But it was dealt with and they havent messed up like that si ce. Apple have screwed up multiple times and have carried out actions that forced users to buy new phones because their old ones become unusable. Thats so anti consumer it hurts.