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The iPhone Duo Survived 10,000 Folds — Its "Minimal" Crease Didn't
Tim Pan's 10,000-fold stress test — and Joanna Stern's 32,640-fold run — found the iPhone Duo's titanium hinge barely flinches, while its "minimal" crease visibly deepens with use.
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The iPhone Duo's Real Launch-Day Price Was $10,000 — on eBay, Anyway
iPhone Duos hit eBay for up to $10,000 on launch day as flagship Apple Stores sold out in hours — proof Apple's two-per-customer scalper cap barely slowed the flip economy.
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The iPhone Duo Goes on Sale — and the iPhone Queue Is Back, Storm and All
Dozens queued at Apple's Covent Garden store from before 7am as the $1,999 foldable went on sale — with Apple's iPhone marketing VP flying in and walk-in stock expected to sell out within hours.
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Apple Didn't Engineer Away the iPhone Duo's Crease — It Covered It With a Replaceable Film
A Kingmi Mobile teardown reveals the Duo's "minimal" crease is mostly an optical trick — a peelable nano-textured film over a glossy display — plus a mixed bag inside: swappable cameras and board, fragile ribbon cables, and batteries that take extra work to reach.
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Apple Boosts iPhone Duo Production 44% on Launch Eve — Now It Has to Build Them
Apple raised its 12-month iPhone Duo target from 9.7M to 14M units on the eve of the Oct 23 launch — but hinge and display constraints mean the orders may outrun the output.
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Apple's iWork Gets an AI Assistant of Its Own — and It's Not Siri
Apple rolled out an "Intelligent Assistant" inside Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for Creator Studio subscribers — a separate AI from Siri that drafts, designs, and does math inside your documents. It's also opening up Keynote files with a new .keyx format.
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"Siri AI Learns Korean on Monday — but It Still Can't Get Into KakaoTalk"
"Apple's revamped assistant adds Korean on October 26 alongside Japanese, and Korean testers found a smarter Siri — one whose personal-context magic stops at the door of KakaoTalk."
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"The iPhone Duo Isn't Even on Sale Yet — and Its Successor Is Already in the Lab"
Gurman says iPhone Duo 2 prototypes at Apple already include under-display Face ID on the outer screen, plus early exploration of an Action button — a sign the foldable's successor is addressing the biggest reviewer complaints before the first model even reaches stores.
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Apple Quietly Caps iPhone Duo Pre-Orders at Two per Customer — a Shot at Scalpers It Didn't Announce
Apple is limiting iPhone Duo pre-orders to two per customer worldwide after launch-day stock evaporated in minutes — and resale listings hit $5,000. The cap appeared with no announcement, and it's an open question whether it actually stops scalpers.
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"Apple Says Ditch the AI Meter — But Only 39% of Readers Are Sold"
"Cryptopolitan polled its readers on Apple's pitch to buy Macs instead of paying per token. Even a crypto-native 'own your stuff' audience couldn't give owning the box 40%."
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Apple Music's New Look Was Literally Made by Sound
Apple officially unveiled Apple Music's new brand identity — a logo physically sculpted by sound waves rippling through mineral oil, captured in camera with no CG.
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Apple Says iPhone Duo Walk-Ins Are a Go Friday — "Limited," and Nowhere Near Everyone
Apple told MacRumors it will have "limited" iPhone Duo units for walk-in buyers on Friday's launch day, and then handed out a country-by-country split that tells the real story: walk-ins in the US and UK, reservation-only in China, France, and Japan.
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iOS 16 Just Booted on an Android Phone for the First Time — and Barely Works
Developers have booted real iOS 16 on Xiaomi and Nothing phones using Apple's own open-source kernel — a first. It takes three minutes to start, can't connect to anything, and half the chip sits idle, but the wall between iOS and Apple's hardware just got its first crack.
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Apple Finally Admits the HomeView Was Mostly Finished for Years — It Was Waiting on Siri AI
Apple execs told The Verge the $299 HomeView sat ready for nearly two years because it needed Siri AI's personal context — an admission that also explains the device's absence in the EU.
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Apple's Camera AirPods Are Nearly Ready — but Its Own Executives Are Waving Red Flags
Camera-equipped AirPods are in the final stretch of internal testing, but Apple executives are reportedly worried about introducing a significant privacy risk without compelling use cases — and the launch could slip.
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Apple Just Spent $100 Million on American Titanium — the Tariff Era Is Reshaping Its Supply Chain
Apple committed up to $100 million over three years to buy titanium from Pennsylvania's Perryman Company for iPhone Duo enclosures, and expanded a Delaware partnership for iPhone 18 Pro camera tech — the latest moves in a domestic-manufacturing push that now touches nearly 100 iPhone components.
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Apple Quietly Acquired Samplab, the AI Startup That Turns Recorded Audio Into Editable MIDI
The EU's DMA acquisition list revealed a June deal for Apple to absorb the Swiss startup behind MIDI-level AI audio editing — its second audio AI acqui-hire in two weeks, and a strong hint at where Logic Pro goes next.
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Apple Is Building a HomeView That Turns to Face You — On a Robotic Arm
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple has a higher-end HomeView in the works — codename J595 — with a roughly 9-inch display on a motorized arm that swivels a full 360 degrees to face whoever's talking. It could arrive in 2027 or 2028.
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Apple Makes It Official: 'Pro and Tell' Is October 28 — and the 'MacBook Ultra' Is Dead on Arrival
Greg Joswiak's "Pro and tell" teaser turned a leaked invite into an official Apple event for October 28 — expected to debut the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, and an OLED iPad mini.
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Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Could Go on Sale November 6 — Skipping the M6 Entirely
After more than a decade of saying no to touch on Macs, Apple is reportedly putting its first touchscreen MacBook Pro on store tables November 6 — with a tandem OLED display, a Dynamic Island, and the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips it already sells.