I just touched the iPhone Duo and Apple just solved the foldable crease problem in the most wonderfully basic way
THE SO WHAT
If Apple has made the foldable crease a non-issue, foldables move from curiosity to mainstream design surface. Mobile product teams should start treating dual-state screen real estate as a default constraint for UX and content, not an edge case.
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