'I Felt Blind Panic.' They Opened Their New $2k iPhone Duo–and It Broke

fortran77

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/iphone-duo-broken-hin...

orionblastar

Just a few (pardon the pun) Bad Apples, that Applecare can fix or replace.

olyjohn

Wow if you have blind panic because of a crack in your phone screen, you might have other problems. I can understand being pissed, but holy shit, you just bought it, they'll replace it. It'll be okay. Get your old phone... oh right you just traded it in and rolled it into your new payment plan. The fact that this is normalized in the article says something about our society.

whywhywhywhy

Really feels the hinge is a vanity project from the design team, similar to using heavy curved glass on the Vision Pro. One too complex with tolerances so tight manufacturing inconsistency or dirt can be catastrophic the other too heavy for purpose and the translucency unneeded on an enclosed vr headset. But if you talk to product design people both are things that look great on a resume.

atleastoptimal

Foldable screens have perhaps the highest engineering difficulty:quality of life improvement ratio of any technology I've seen

croes

Isn’t that the pattern with every new hardware generation from Apple? Quite often some kind of display problem. Wouldn’t buy a Apple device without Apple care or I would wait for the later iterations when the early production problems are solved.

ChrisArchitect

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223580

DropkickM16

There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine. -Patrick Bateman