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You could not be more wrong. And I say this as I type on my Fold 7. The ONLY limit that is legit is the availability. Demand will be through the roof. You dismiss the biggest component apart from the notorious Apple ecosystem.
Apple alone is a "status" brand. There is a huge segment for whom high price is a "feature" not a "bug". It will be THE PHONE of celebrity. That will trickle down to the vast majority of people of means, then to poser average people who have no business paying that much for a phone. Not everyone can afford a Lamborghini, but most can buy a 2000 phone if they really want to. Do you think leasing just showed up as a coincidence? Nah, Apple is going to push this as a luxury device, and ONLY THEY can make it work. You think it is ugly? I would disagree, but I tell you no matter how much tech reviews dog it, the status conscious will believe it gorgeous, no matter the lack of symmetry.
They Galaxy Fold 8 is in my view perhaps the most beautiful phone EVER in my opinion. But I would suggest that Samsung flagship phones are objectively better looking than iPhones since the S7. For Apple folks, asymmetric as it might be, its looks are unmistakeably iPhone.
Android folks are practical. A small number of us pay big money for FEATURES that we value. Most have no desire to drop that kind of coin on a phone even if they can afford it
People are wowed by Folds true. But most Apple folks don't want one until Apple makes one.
While the Fold 8 is breaking records DESPITE an installed base of Fold users, can you imagine the demand among a pool that has no installed base?
And here is another reason why the iPhone will crush. While still a status device it has gotten too common. The status is less "look at me I have an iPhone", but more "I would never be seen with an Android". When any peasent has one, there is less shine. And it is simply boring. When you can buy a iPhone 18 Pro and it looks hardly different than a 13 Pro and you need to buy whatever garish color they release this year to replace that ugly orange just so people know it is the latest, there is pent up demand for something genuinely different.
That iPhones success will have nothing to do with whether the Fold is a better phone, or whether the Fold is better looking. They could sell it for 2500, and if the stock is there, it will outsell the Fold 8 and 8 Ultra combined. This is because ecosystem, status, lease options, and zero existing user base will create a demand for this phone that has never been seen in a foldable. Mark my words
This will be the first "splash" release since the iPhone X. Demand will be through the roof. The only limit is the one point I agree with. Inventory issues.
You could not be more wrong. And I say this as I type on my Fold 7. The ONLY limit that is legit is the availability. Demand will be through the roof. You dismiss the biggest component apart from the notorious Apple ecosystem.
Apple alone is a "status" brand. There is a huge segment for whom high price is a "feature" not a "bug". It will be THE PHONE of celebrity. That will trickle down to the vast majority of people of means, then to poser average people who have no business paying that much for a phone. Not everyone can afford a Lamborghini, but most can buy a 2000 phone if they really want to. Do you think leasing just showed up as a coincidence? Nah, Apple is going to push this as a luxury device, and ONLY THEY can make it work. You think it is ugly? I would disagree, but I tell you no matter how much tech reviews dog it, the status conscious will believe it gorgeous, no matter the lack of symmetry.
They Galaxy Fold 8 is in my view perhaps the most beautiful phone EVER in my opinion. But I would suggest that Samsung flagship phones are objectively better looking than iPhones since the S7. For Apple folks, asymmetric as it might be, its looks are unmistakeably iPhone.
Android folks are practical. A small number of us pay big money for FEATURES that we value. Most have no desire to drop that kind of coin on a phone even if they can afford it
People are wowed by Folds true. But most Apple folks don't want one until Apple makes one.
While the Fold 8 is breaking records DESPITE an installed base of Fold users, can you imagine the demand among a pool that has no installed base?
And here is another reason why the iPhone will crush. While still a status device it has gotten too common. The status is less "look at me I have an iPhone", but more "I would never be seen with an Android". When any peasent has one, there is less shine. And it is simply boring. When you can buy a iPhone 18 Pro and it looks hardly different than a 13 Pro and you need to buy whatever garish color they release this year to replace that ugly orange just so people know it is the latest, there is pent up demand for something genuinely different.
That iPhones success will have nothing to do with whether the Fold is a better phone, or whether the Fold is better looking. They could sell it for 2500, and if the stock is there, it will outsell the Fold 8 and 8 Ultra combined. This is because ecosystem, status, lease options, and zero existing user base will create a demand for this phone that has never been seen in a foldable. Mark my words
This will be the first "splash" release since the iPhone X. Demand will be through the roof. The only limit is the one point I agree with. Inventory issues.
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You could not be more wrong. And I say this as I type on my Fold 7. The ONLY limit that is legit is the availability. Demand will be through the roof. You dismiss the biggest component apart from the notorious Apple ecosystem.
Apple alone is a "status" brand. There is a huge segment for whom high price is a "feature" not a "bug". It will be THE PHONE of celebrity. That will trickle down to the vast majority of people of means, then to poser average people who have no business paying that much for a phone. Not everyone can afford a Lamborghini, but most can buy a 2000 phone if they really want to. Do you think leasing just showed up as a coincidence? Nah, Apple is going to push this as a luxury device, and ONLY THEY can make it work. You think it is ugly? I would disagree, but I tell you no matter how much tech reviews dog it, the status conscious will believe it gorgeous, no matter the lack of symmetry.
They Galaxy Fold 8 is in my view perhaps the most beautiful phone EVER in my opinion. But I would suggest that Samsung flagship phones are objectively better looking than iPhones since the S7. For Apple folks, asymmetric as it might be, its looks are unmistakeably iPhone.
Android folks are practical. A small number of us pay big money for FEATURES that we value. Most have no desire to drop that kind of coin on a phone even if they can afford it
People are wowed by Folds true. But most Apple folks don't want one until Apple makes one.
While the Fold 8 is breaking records DESPITE an installed base of Fold users, can you imagine the demand among a pool that has no installed base?
And here is another reason why the iPhone will crush. While still a status device it has gotten too common. The status is less "look at me I have an iPhone", but more "I would never be seen with an Android". When any peasent has one, there is less shine. And it is simply boring. When you can buy a iPhone 18 Pro and it looks hardly different than a 13 Pro and you need to buy whatever garish color they release this year to replace that ugly orange just so people know it is the latest, there is pent up demand for something genuinely different.
That iPhones success will have nothing to do with whether the Fold is a better phone, or whether the Fold is better looking. They could sell it for 2500, and if the stock is there, it will outsell the Fold 8 and 8 Ultra combined. This is because ecosystem, status, lease options, and zero existing user base will create a demand for this phone that has never been seen in a foldable. Mark my words
This will be the first "splash" release since the iPhone X. Demand will be through the roof. The only limit is the one point I agree with. Inventory issues.
You could not be more wrong. And I say this as I type on my Fold 7. The ONLY limit that is legit is the availability. Demand will be through the roof. You dismiss the biggest component apart from the notorious Apple ecosystem.
Apple alone is a "status" brand. There is a huge segment for whom high price is a "feature" not a "bug". It will be THE PHONE of celebrity. That will trickle down to the vast majority of people of means, then to poser average people who have no business paying that much for a phone. Not everyone can afford a Lamborghini, but most can buy a 2000 phone if they really want to. Do you think leasing just showed up as a coincidence? Nah, Apple is going to push this as a luxury device, and ONLY THEY can make it work. You think it is ugly? I would disagree, but I tell you no matter how much tech reviews dog it, the status conscious will believe it gorgeous, no matter the lack of symmetry.
They Galaxy Fold 8 is in my view perhaps the most beautiful phone EVER in my opinion. But I would suggest that Samsung flagship phones are objectively better looking than iPhones since the S7. For Apple folks, asymmetric as it might be, its looks are unmistakeably iPhone.
Android folks are practical. A small number of us pay big money for FEATURES that we value. Most have no desire to drop that kind of coin on a phone even if they can afford it
People are wowed by Folds true. But most Apple folks don't want one until Apple makes one.
While the Fold 8 is breaking records DESPITE an installed base of Fold users, can you imagine the demand among a pool that has no installed base?
And here is another reason why the iPhone will crush. While still a status device it has gotten too common. The status is less "look at me I have an iPhone", but more "I would never be seen with an Android". When any peasent has one, there is less shine. And it is simply boring. When you can buy a iPhone 18 Pro and it looks hardly different than a 13 Pro and you need to buy whatever garish color they release this year to replace that ugly orange just so people know it is the latest, there is pent up demand for something genuinely different.
That iPhones success will have nothing to do with whether the Fold is a better phone, or whether the Fold is better looking. They could sell it for 2500, and if the stock is there, it will outsell the Fold 8 and 8 Ultra combined. This is because ecosystem, status, lease options, and zero existing user base will create a demand for this phone that has never been seen in a foldable. Mark my words
This will be the first "splash" release since the iPhone X. Demand will be through the roof. The only limit is the one point I agree with. Inventory issues.