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If the foldable screen could be more robust, and the fold could be truly invisible when unfolded, I could see it being useful for some people as a phone-tablet hybrid.

Unfortunately features like hardware kill switches will probably always be too niche for a mainstream flagship.

Also you're clearly not apple's target market so you being frustrated by their choices is negligible to them.

I haven't tried for a while but I'm pretty sure you can store your own music files on all Apple devices and listen to them via Apple Music.

Literally writing from a folding phone right now. It's so much smaller than any other phone I have had and actually fits in my pockets, and something about the center of gravity is so much easier, it never falls out of my jacket pocket like my old phones used to.

Are you an Apple User? There is a Samsung phone with swappable batteries, and you'd have control over your files. Why are you using Apple products?

Agreed. Being able to fold the device is popular because of the novelty but I argue they're overall objectively worse devices than non-folding one with the same price and form factor would be. I'll much rather have a flat slab in my pocket than a compact cube. There's not a chance a folding device will withstand daily use for 6+ years.

The only way flagship phones will ever get swappable batteries is if the EU mandates that.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/108935

Apple will do what it always does, and launch any new product as and when it feels it ~~has solved the problems raised by new product categories, and has something it believes is better than existing products.~~ can extract the maximum margins while offering the minimum necessary to be viewed as premium by their customer base.

There, fixed it.

I’m hoping after Tim retires that actual innovation returns.

Apple's stock price would disagree with you there

Apple Watch was not innovative? Apple Silicon was not innovative? Vision Pro was not innovative?

Look at you, all entitled to Apple’s innovation.

Uh, maybe be less sweaty? Wash your hands?

Really doesn't seem like a flaw with the phones if you're sweating enough to soak it.

Haha. No. But you can get an ever increasing phone where everything is soldered and glued. Also we removes the charging port.

This bothers me a bit because I absolutely love my current gen horizontal fold phone. The crease isn't ugly or growing in the year or so I've had it. You can feel it, but I got used to that in days.