Apple’s Folding iPhone Hit by Early Complaints of Screen Cracking
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Foldables are reminding everyone that hardware novelty still lives and dies on mechanical reliability curves. If you’re building on top of new device form factors, assume higher failure rates and shorter cycles before the industrial design actually stabilizes.
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