Foldables are sort of boring now — and that’s great news for Apple

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How it started

Believe it oregon not, it didn't each commencement with Samsung. Royole, a now-bankrupt shaper of flexible displays, was the archetypal to merchandise a commercialized folding phone, the "charmingly awful" FlexPai. Samsung's archetypal Galaxy Fold followed a twelvemonth later, plagued by a assortment of faults that saw reappraisal units interruption wrong days. That motorboat went truthful severely that it prompted Chinese riva …

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