The first broken iPhone Duos are here (theverge.com)

38 pointsby thm17 hours ago21 comments

hollow-moe 16 hours ago

7 years in, foldables are still where they were. You had your fun wasting this r&d money, now give us smaller devices.

jbs789 16 hours ago

Imagine if that approach was taken when the early iPhone antenna didn’t work, or the screens broke more easily. Cheer up mate !

gattilorenz 15 hours ago

> now give us smaller devices

Yeah, there's TENS of us :')

thatonehack 11 hours ago

Make that eleven.

hattar 10 hours ago

Twelve. Those bastards at the Apple Store broke my mini when I brought it in for a battery replacement. RIP mini

Dylan16807 14 hours ago

They're more reliable than at the start, that's something.

And smaller meaning what? Z flip not small enough?

jazzyjackson 14 hours ago

I would love if the next air was just half of the duo (the iphone solo?)

A square I can actually reach all the corners of

dyauspitr 13 hours ago

No one wants your smaller devices. Why do you assume people want what you want? Most don’t, they’ve tried it and no one buys them, that’s why they don’t make them. The market has spoken.

jzl 12 hours ago

Well, Apple is still trying to hang on to the iPhone Air, and according to various reports it has sold only about half the total units that the mini sold. And Air sales have cratered to virtually zero.

Folding phones will likely be an even smaller market.

I don't think the problem is that there isn't a dedicated percentage of people who would buy smaller phones like the mini, or that the sales couldn't be profitable. The problem is that the screen size to battery volume ratio is or least was particularly bad for the mini. (The Air has this problem too.) I'd love to see them try again with modern hardware. I wouldn't use one personally, but know many people who would in a flash.

yesfitz 7 hours ago

I think the Mini line was doomed by the second iteration of the SE.

I know multiple people who held onto their original SE because of the form factor, but bought the second SE when it came time to upgrade because that seemed to be as small as the iPhone would go anymore.

chis 16 hours ago

The subreddit is filled with posts of people's devices breaking even on the first day of purchase. It's hard to know what the actual breakage rate is but it's certainly suggestive of problems. It would be crazy if Apple with all their typical polish managed to miss some major flaw.

nradov 16 hours ago

Typical polish: "You're holding it wrong."

rationalist 14 hours ago

More typical polish: iPhone 6 that bends easily.

classified 15 hours ago

It's what happens when you rush a product. The indications that Apple has lost the plot are getting ever harder to ignore.

HelloUsername 16 hours ago

JerryRigEverything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5laDGy4INB0

dyauspitr 13 hours ago

That actually took quite a bit of effort to break and didn’t break completely.

runjake 16 hours ago

I find it kind of funny they replace these defective units with another defective unit, but I guess that’s all Apple can do, for now.

Has anyone caught wind of any hardware revisions?

semiquaver 16 hours ago

Presumably the cost of replacing these based on the higher than average defect rate is already baked into the price.

classified 15 hours ago

Or Apple could say that they were holding it wrong to save that cost.

stevenwoo 15 hours ago

I feel this is worse than Nintendo’s “solution” to Switch joycon drift - giving us in the USA (for now) free refurb/fixes which must be cheaper than admitting there’s an issue, but still a cost/brand trust problem.

FireBeyond 8 hours ago

> When I stopped in an Apple Store yesterday and checked one of these out at the display table, I noted that the Apple Store employee who was showing the phone to people in a sort-of ad-hoc demo session told people that to close it, they had to press on the bottom-center bit of the hinge that's in-line with the bottom of the frame. Saw someone else online suggest that this could be because people pressed down on the middle of the screen to initiate closing it, and that that exposed some part of the screen to some moving parts in the hinge that were never meant to interact.

Comment from the article. Uh-oh, are we headed for another "You're (h)folding it wrong"?