Samsung Mocks iPhone Duo

[MiamiFL]

Apple may not have done it first, they just did it better.

 

[AppleWes]

Samsung sure seems obsessed with Apple. Why not promote your own products better than 100 Tweets/X about someone else?

 

[Unregistered 4U]

I don't know why Apple isn't promoting this more, but these are 100% their screens. Samsung and LG are merely physical manufacturers. Apple develops the entire technology. These are the only screens with movable layers and a matte finish.

Because Apple doesn’t care and their customers don’t care. 🙂 The ONLY difference between one Android phones and another can be described on a spec sheet, so spec sheets is all their customers care about. Getting the most bullet points for the least money, even if that comes with unidentified compromises. They have been marketing to more affluent customers for years and their first year fold sales are going to show it. At this point, they just want to be a part of the conversation so that they can piggyback on the non-Android folding phone coverage.

 

[contacos]

As a Fold8 user, I am jealous of the under the screen camera, not gonna lie. Hurts especially, since it used to have it pre Fold7 🫠

 

[Lioness~]

I enjoyed the new era at Apple with Ternus - felt harmonic, foremost.

Stay classy Samsung

They will.

I think Apple will too at this phase - it felt a lot more harmonic with Ternus.
So looking forward to what will happen with these phones.
I’ll wait quite a while to buy the Duo - my mini serves me well for now.
But it can be grate to NOT need to take a iPad mini with me, at certain situation.

 

[trip1ex]

Samsung AI working hard.

 

[KPOM]

Samsung have been making foldables for almost a decade, and released their Fold 8 couple of months ago, so how have they copied Samsung? All the optics look like it’s the other way round.

Samsung's first foldables were garbage. The Fold 8 looks nice. Given how big a customer Apple is for Samsung Display, I sometimes wonder if Samsung Mobile exists partly to advertise to Apple. I.e. they let Apple know what is possible so they can decide whether the technology is "ready for prime time."

 

[tim916]

Those tweets are definitely AI generated

 

[joshwithachance]

As a Fold8 owner, the entire iPhone Duo portion of the keynote felt very… familiar.

But having Apple now join the world of foldables is only a good thing for us consumers.

 

[SvenLorenz1975]

I'm trying to remember when the last time I saw somebody with a Samsung phone was, but it's too long ago.

 

[lenningj]

cope and seeth samsung, cope and seeth.

 

[eitanharlev]

Oh Samsung, they sure talk a lot of crap for a company who relies on using payola to remain competitively relevant. Just sit down and continue making our chips, displays, memory modules before your lights get cut off.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Without Samsung this iPhone would not exist. They developed the technology and are the one making its display. Apple just designed a few fancy icons, zero innovation.

It sounds like the display is different from what's currently in Samsung devices. Yes, Samsung is fabricating it for Apple, but Apple has engineers who design the display. They tell Samsung what the make and Samsung makes it. In other words, it's not just Samsung dictating, "This is what we have, take it or leave it!"

 

[smriga]

Let’s not forget that Apple themselves have copied the duo name and form factor from the Microsoft surface duo, from seven years ago

You say that but no one has a trademark on the word duo...

Hell>>> apple had the PowerBook Duo in the 1900s...

 

[Contact_Feanor]

I don't know why Apple does not look at developing their own screens or going to another OEM.

I thought Apple did develop their own screens and samsung just produces them. Like how they develop their own SoC's and TSMC produces them... From androidinfotech dot com (first source I found):

 

[Contact_Feanor]

I don't know why Apple does not look at developing their own screens or going to another OEM.

I thought Apple did develop their own screens and samsung just produces them. Like how they develop their own SoC's and TSMC produces them... From androidinfotech dot com (first source I found): View attachment 2660420

 

[Contact_Feanor]

Without Samsung this iPhone would not exist. They developed the technology and are the one making its display. Apple just designed a few fancy icons, zero innovation.

Apple designs their own displays, samsung just manufactures them. You don't say TSMC makes the A-series chips and apple has zero innovation; apple designs it and TSMC manufactures it. Same with samsung and the displays apple uses.

 

[norbinhouston]

They can't get over that their entire line was copied from Apple.

 

[Ctrlos]

Ofc it did. Samsung just got blown out of the water (as usual) by Apple and has to reseort to childish shade throwing. Same as it's always been.

That's not really true though it is? Look past the impressive engineering and Apple made an iPhone that turns into a bigger iPhone. That's it. It doesn't do anything new.

Samsung make a phone that turns into an actual tablet. That becomes a retro gaming dream at 4:3. That becomes a PC when plugged into a display.

When I'm spending upwards of £1500 on a phone utility > aesthetics. It either does everything or it's not worth it.

Whilst I don't doubt for one second it won't sell milliins of units the Duo is outmatched by an iPhone 17 and an iPad Mini which is about 75% of the asking price if you buy new.

 

[Le_Chiffre]

Damn!!!

Apple Cooked so hard with the iPhone duo, Samsung knows it over.

 

[turbineseaplane]

You say that but no one has a trademark on the word duo...

Hell>>> apple had the PowerBook Duo in the 1900s...View attachment 2660417

Correct.
The Surface Duo, however is literally the iPhone Duo in terms of form factor, use case, name, etc

Look it up -- it's a really close comp.

 

[Ctrlos]

As a Fold8 owner, the entire iPhone Duo portion of the keynote felt very… familiar.

But having Apple now join the world of foldables is only a good thing for us consumers.

A device that has less functionality than the Z Fold 1

 

[Le_Chiffre]

That's not really true though it is? Look past the impressive engineering and Apple made an iPhone that turns into a bigger iPhone. That's it. It doesn't do anything new.

Samsung make a phone that turns into an actual tablet. That becomes a retro gaming dream at 4:3. That becomes a PC when plugged into a display.

When I'm spending upwards of £1500 on a phone utility > aesthetics. It either does everything or it's not worth it.

Whilst I don't doubt for one second it won't sell milliins of units the Duo is outmatched by an iPhone 17 and an iPad Mini which is about 75% of the asking price if you buy new.

Apple is going to sell more foldables during the iPhone duo preorder than Samsung will all year.

 

[turbineseaplane]

That's not really true though it is? Look past the impressive engineering and Apple made an iPhone that turns into a bigger iPhone. That's it. It doesn't do anything new.

To me this is a really sharp takeaway.

You got to the ground truth of the device.

It's doing absolutely nothing new via it's different design, which is a shame.

 

[Le_Chiffre]

Correct.
The Surface Duo, however is literally the iPhone Duo in terms of form factor, use case, name, etc

Look it up -- it's a really close comp.

But Apple used the duo name first.