Really? I thought it's visible from day 1.

So what, as a daily user you don't even notice it when using the device yourself. The engineers did think of the user experience and it's quite good.

Yeah but they stopped being consistent with the "doing it right" part a long time ago.

But wrapping everything in a proprietary fence (special connectors, blocked rms bridge, etc) is the very essence of the problem.

people drove with those 🙄

I don't think they wait till smartphone and smart tablet are stabilised, when they do iphone and ipad, their competitors are still fumbling around with the tech but they somehow make it right. When they do vision pro the same thing is happening, their competitor(google glass, microsoft hololens) is still fumbling around with the tech, but this time they overestimated their own capability and also the demand of this thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage

But apple is quite good at showing up late and getting market share anyway.

I don't care a lick who was first, I'm a late adopter of all tech, but it is annoying when Apple users tout new features as if they're the first to experience them. It's the condescension that's annoying, especially when it's so misplaced

I used to have a folding phone.

I've seen a few but it were never the type of people i expected. It weren't nerds or techies or dudes with expensive cars, it was middle-aged women with presumably fake designer bags. Still haven't figuresd out if these are the only people buying foldable phones or I am just not in an area that is representative of their typical buyers. At first I thought they were hand me downs from their husbands, but then I'd have seen at some point a man that might be said husband with one.

I might have about $15

dont get out much?

You need to see more people in your day to day life, then. I saw a lady on the subway that had a rectangular smart phone that folded in half to be a little square to stow in her purse.

Also, one of my friends has a fold out phablet for gaming.

The fact that I noticed and remembered both instances shows that phone makers have been doing a good job of inventing interesting and innovative hardware. The fact that there are only two instances for me to remember speaks to the fact that they have not been as successful at actually getting people to buy them.

I've seen a few and they were all in on it and loved it.

I see people using them with some regularity 🤷🏻‍♂️ not for me though.

Speak for yourself, two time owner, they're very nice.

It's the price tag, and the fact unfolded they are using a giant squarish format.

Bring me back to the old 16:9 formats, instead. That made sense. You could watch movies, shows, and videos full-screen.

Pixel 10 Fold owner checking in 👋

Sure, but they still slap a new name onto an existing technology and pretend they invented that shit, hence the meme.

Sadly:(.

I would love to go back to July 15, 2016 because that's the day I got married 💖

My spouse and I are both still happily married, but to experience the joy of that day again

Other companies didn't spend a couple decades positioning themselves as a kind of tech-fashion elite. Other companies didn't charge $200 for a crossbody "pocket". So it's funniest when Apple's stupid ideas blow up in their ridiculous image-obsessed faces.

Utterly useless.

Can’t message people, the primary communication system for the target audience, without using cumbersome voice to text.

Can’t browse the internet, the primary use case for a modern phone.

Can’t really answer phone calls without a separate headset.

Can tell time, which is good for a watch. Has a battery life measured in hours, which is laughable for any modern watch.

Anything the Apple Watch can do is better served by the phone that you need to pair with the watch anyway, or a seperate mechanical or digital watch. Or just the phone. It takes 3 seconds to pull out a phone and look at the time.

And if you want heart rate monitoring or pulse oxygen readings: Fitbit did it first years before the Apple Watch. All Apple did was let you struggle to read text messages on a tiny screen that also tells you that your heart rate is elevated.

Screens too. But they are designed by Apple, so they are not literally the same. But Apple is obviously not inventing anything new.