I keep posting that the zfold and zflip 8 is gonna be the last good foldable generation from Samsung because this cycle crap is what happens every time Apple finally catches up:

1. Small OEM makes some sick hardware advancement
2. Samsung applies cool hardware into a secondary product
3. Everyone is happy and enjoying product
4. Several years pass
5. POS Apple finally catches up with the hardware standard and releases their next iphone for a morbillion dollar price tag
6. A shifu ton of Apple users buy it as usual
7. Samsung marketing makes fun of Apple for two months
8. Samsung execs see all the Apple money and then copy Apple's POS hardware spec for the next generation of their product
9. Repeat

I still remember when Galaxy was the flagship of Android and made the iphone look like a joke Chinese knockoff in comparison and now it's just an iphone clone with equally crappy software to match.

Apple, Apple slop buyers, Samsung, and especially Google can all go screw themselves.