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MATT BOLTON is ready for a folding iPhone. Or maybe a folding iPad. Something should bend, anyway, and soon
WE’RE NOW FIVE years into the era of folding phones, and Apple clearly hasn’t felt much pressure to follow Samsung’s lead down this particular path. Even by Apple standards, five years is quite a while for some new, next–step technology to be adopted before Apple also features it.
For most of those five years, it hasn’t bothered me that Apple hasn’t launched its own version —the potential usefulness of a mid–size phone that becomes a small tablet is obvious, but the actual utility has not been so clear, especially when the hardware has had problems with durability and general inelegance.