7 years in, foldables are still where they were. You had your fun wasting this r&d money, now give us smaller devices.

The subreddit is filled with posts of people's devices breaking even on the first day of purchase. It's hard to know what the actual breakage rate is but it's certainly suggestive of problems. It would be crazy if Apple with all their typical polish managed to miss some major flaw.

JerryRigEverything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5laDGy4INB0

I find it kind of funny they replace these defective units with another defective unit, but I guess that’s all Apple can do, for now.

Has anyone caught wind of any hardware revisions?

> When I stopped in an Apple Store yesterday and checked one of these out at the display table, I noted that the Apple Store employee who was showing the phone to people in a sort-of ad-hoc demo session told people that to close it, they had to press on the bottom-center bit of the hinge that's in-line with the bottom of the frame. Saw someone else online suggest that this could be because people pressed down on the middle of the screen to initiate closing it, and that that exposed some part of the screen to some moving parts in the hinge that were never meant to interact.

Comment from the article. Uh-oh, are we headed for another "You're (h)folding it wrong"?

Presumably the cost of replacing these based on the higher than average defect rate is already baked into the price.