Apple’s foldable iPhone will miss the mark because it’s too little too late

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The long-awaited foldable iPhone isn’t hyping me up as I had thought it would. From what I can tell, it looks like Apple is about to miss the mark when it launches its foldable later this year alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone 18 Pro Max.I’m not saying it’ll be a bad phone — far from it, in fact — but it really won’t be all it’s cracked up to be. By the time the foldable iPhone hits shelves, other companies like Samsung will likely have already beaten it in every aspect that matters.

Apple missed its most important goal

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 almost eliminated the display crease. | Image by PhoneArena

By now most of you know that the main reason Apple delayed making a foldable phone for so long is because it wanted to do things its own way. In short, Apple didn’t want to enter the foldable smartphone market until it was confident that it could completely eliminate the crease. The foldable iPhone was meant to deliver the most perfect folding experience that the world has ever seen.

That’s not happening. Leaked foldable iPhone display crease details reveal that production for the display and its accompanying hinge mechanism has started. The display that Apple has settled on does have a crease, albeit a very shallow one. So Apple missed the mark on what mattered most to it, and that’s just half of the story.

Samsung has solved the crease problem

This is a Samsung foldable display with no crease. | Image by Ice Universe

Yes, you read that right. Samsung has already developed a foldable display with no crease. Furthermore, there is a very good chance that the company will use this display for the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8, which will be better than the excellent Galaxy Z…

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