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Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

hatsunearu wrote: post #578
ksec wrote: post #483

I think the Duo looks great. And from the few hands on video I have seen I think the Apple presentation actually doesn't do it justice. There is no crease at all! [1] On the note on this year's keynote. I can't be the only one who feels the whole vibe of the keynote changed. This isn't Tim Cook style keynote and John Ternus wasted no time to try and changed a few things already. I can't wait for John to further shake…

The crease appears after months of use on other phones, so I'm curious what it would look like after a little bit of wear.

Months is a long time. You're supposed to return your iphone to apple and get a newer one as per your subscription.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by tiffanyh »

Nevermark wrote: post #697

John Ternus, and his co-presenters, still presented with the now institutionalized Apple-voice: obviously-rehearsed, emotionally-flat, robo-replay. They spent their time practicing to recite, instead of talk, to people. So hard to sit through. I had assumed that was a genuine, if not inspiring, reflection of Cook's controlled non-spontaneous personality. Relative to Steve's emotionally-rich casual-coded excited-to-sh…

People under estimate how hard it is to talk naturally in front of a camera.

There’s a reason why acting as a profession exists.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by 2001zhaozhao »

The issue with this form factor is that the on-screen keyboard will take up half the screen on landscape with the phone open.

Typing in portrait should be very nice, however.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by mmmmmbop »

stillpointlab wrote: post #603

These threads are often amusing with people obliviously asking: why doesn't Apple make exactly what I want? And then stating with certainty how well their custom requirements would sell. I'll probably wait and see how this phone does over the next few years. If it is still highly regarded by version 3 then I could imagine making the switch to a folding phone. For now I will remain conservative since my phone is such…

100%. It was so funny to see how for years, everyone on HN was harping on about how well a smaller iPhone would sell. Then Apple finally released the iPhone mini and nobody was buying it, so they had to kill it after a couple of iterations.

Basically, try to do the opposite of what HN is saying and you might just create a successful product.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by SkyeCA »

I think I'm just getting old because I no longer see the appeal nor do I understand the hype of new phones. It bends? Wow a useless gimmick for 3000$, just what I need.

I'm sure someone will love it, but it won't be me.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by jimmiet42 »

thesuitonym wrote: post #60

We keep putting more powerful chips into phones, and giving them bigger screens, but we never turn them into useful computers. Why is this?

It's easier to make an existing thing better. But far harder to come up with a new idea.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by Kiro »

MPSimmons wrote: post #240

Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them? I don't mind folding. I think it's cool, and a nice way to get a useful space. But I have big hands, and I can't use my iphone 17 now without two hands. This is even wider before unfolding. Who wants bigger phones? Who is like, "damn I wish I had a tablet that I could fold up and still barely fit in my pocket"? I want smaller phones. The…

The obvious answer is that people actually want bigger phones and you're in minority. But no, let's pretend what you personally want trumps that and ridicule them for it instead.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by Gigachad »

Readerium wrote: post #704
anonu wrote: post #593

As a recent Android foldable phone owner (Google Pixel), I'm excited that the Duo will get developers to actually design apps for foldables. Right now, some apps don't work at all and others are just stretched. I feel a better use of the screen space is around the corner for both Android foldable and Duo users.

I don't want to be pessimistic, but I can see a single app now showing two different feeds to doomscroll.

Subway surfers and tiktok at the same time. The future is now chud.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by pupppet »

Nevermark wrote: post #697

John Ternus, and his co-presenters, still presented with the now institutionalized Apple-voice: obviously-rehearsed, emotionally-flat, robo-replay. They spent their time practicing to recite, instead of talk, to people. So hard to sit through. I had assumed that was a genuine, if not inspiring, reflection of Cook's controlled non-spontaneous personality. Relative to Steve's emotionally-rich casual-coded excited-to-sh…

Don’t forget about how they desperately try to figure out what to do with their hands.
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