Over the years Apple was famous for pantenting some pretty crazy ideas. I’m on the record saying I would never want a folding screen for many reasons, fragility being one. As for Jobs playing a joke?
I’ll just leave this here https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2002/06/china-pap...
China may not share our understanding of satire and sarcasm, but you’d think Korea would understand the basic tenants of engineering and design.