Apple’s Foldable Phone On Track for September Launch
THE SO WHAT
If Apple ships a foldable on time despite reported manufacturing issues, the category stops being a niche experiment and becomes a design baseline for premium phones. Accessory, app, and content ecosystems should assume a foldable-first world by 2027 and start testing UX on dual-orientation, multi-state devices now.
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