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Galaxy Fold.

$2000 to 3000 phone.

Runs Android.

And you know Apple is going to do what they always do. Copy it.

Funny how Apple keeps copying the 'poor man's ideas.

Now, if you're only focused on what's cool and what isn't, of course Apple is going to be the only thing you see... because you're looking for it.

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Apple's philosophy is that being first is not being best. You can be 5th place, but if you do it "best," it won't matter. That doesn't mean they are necessarily copying either. We've had leaks that they've tried foldables for years.

Apple is never going to release a folding phone, it's way too gimmicky.

Some were saying the same about pencil.

wtf is gimmicky about a pen for a tablet?

Jobs was completely against them. He considered them to be a gimmick. Now the Apple Pencil is considered an important accessory to the iPad.

https://qz.com/1575481/would-steve-jobs-like-the-ipad-today/

>The first is that Steve Jobs unabashedly hated styluses. When introducing the first iPhone in 2007, the Apple founder said, “Who wants a stylus? You have to get ’em, put ’em away, you lose ’em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let’s not use a stylus.”

https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/10/technology/apple-pencil-ste...

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