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All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch (wccftech.com)

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[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

All ~~Of Apple’s~~ Foldable ~~i~~Phone ~~Prototypes~~ Have Visible Creases

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

German renowned institute "Stiftung Warentest" just tested two foldables (both Samsung I think) and had them 50.000 times folded and unfolded (they build machines to ~~torture~~ test stuff) and reported no creases.

50.000 times is over four years for 32 uses every day (twice every wake hour). Would be more than sufficient for a normal user think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Crease distortion occurs immediately, day 1, first fold, and it's a substantial distortion.... but does not necessarily get exponentially worse like normal fatiguing plastic, but instead just gets worse slowly. Yeah it'll last 50k folds but the crease distortion is definitely there in person.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

All ~~Of Apple’s~~ Foldable ~~i~~Phon~~e Prototyp~~es Have Visible Creases

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't get the obsession over the crease, things that fold generally have creases. As long as it's not distorting things (which IME it doesn't and is hardly noticeable when in use anyways) it's fine

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

This is Apple; they value different things than most people… sometimes warranted, results in offering a much better experience, and pushes everything forward (see MagSafe -> Qi2 for recent example), other times they’re just regarded as late adopters. The detraction of visual aesthetics from folding crease is apparently one of such things that they care about.