Don't forget they are designed by mosad. So they also might blow up.

Shouldn't they take a number then?

Apple will normalize and perfect all the subscriptions.

They will if they dont render our planet ubinhabitable beforehand.

It's really great if you like phones with extremely obvious points of failure. My wife had a zflip where the hinges got stuck and snapped, and they replacement they sent her had the flex cable inside malfunction to the point where it felt like the phone was going to melt. Two different ways to fail in the same spot. The future is here!

Upgrading every two years because the old one broke, rather than because of a crippling addiction to consumerism?

I get for people wanting the larger screen size that folds, but I'd like one of the smaller ones so it's not as heavy and fits into smaller pockets

A bigger screen can make many tasks easier. I'd quite like to be able to see a decently large terminal window and a keyboard at the same time for instance.

I carry a phone and small tablet for most things. Having them combined would be pretty cool. Although I have been bearish on foldables since the beginning.

It's known as "criti-hype".

Google:

• Criti-hype critics: We have to rein Google in, they spy on absolutely everything you do, and as a result their advertising is like a mind control ray!
• Google: Hey advertiser, did you hear, even our critics say our advertising is like a mind control ray, that's why you have to pay us so much.
• The reality: Google doesn't even know enough to avoid showing people ads in languages they don't understand despite all their settings and all their usage being in a different language.

Palantir

• Criti-hype critics: Palantir tech must be stopped is so powerful that a human isn't even needed in the decision loop!
• Palantir: Hey government, did you hear, even our critics say that we don't need a human in the decision loop!
• The reality: Palantir suggests bombing a school.

We're basically already at a point where most enterprise documentation is written partly or entirely by AI, and then read mostly by AI. Eventually true understanding of e.g. how to build a docker-compose file will be genuinely rare. And they want to apply that model to everything.

The risk isn't that GAI will decide, in an Asmovian sense, that the best way to make peace on earth is to kill us all, or that to achieve it's manufacturing quota it must transmute all matter in the universe I to paperclips. The real risk is that the MBA-wielding professional-managerial class will not be able to resist the siren song of demolishing labor with something that works "well enough." Eventually they're going to put it in charge of something critical like ATC or dam control or the electrical grid.

Humans, by our nature, are diverse, and one fuck up rarely cascades through the entire global system. We make small fuck ups and train each other. AI "learns" by observing and probabilistically imitating, and one model could be deployed in a thousand places and screw up the exact same way.

tldr ai won't kill us, our bosses will once Anthropic wines and dines them

You could fold it way more than once. A bit less crunch each time.

That feature debuted on the iPhone 6 IIRC.

Only if the hinge went.

Nope, just very expensive.

No. And with the newer, wider form factor that Samsung started using this generation and clearly Apple is also using, there has been more excitement. The trifold phones have also generated a ton of excitement. That trifold Huawei looks amazing, but us Americans can't have it. I strongly considered a folding phone for my traveling job. A phone that could fold out tablet size for TV/movies/books sounds great for the plane/hotel.

Apple is not a competitor for anthropic/openai, it's competitor to nvidia. Latest mac studio is very local AI capable, with 256gb uram and upcoming 512gb, while not terrible inference speed.

They are selling shovels, basically.

This is literally Apple’s business model. It’s intentional. They are intentionally focused on slow sustained growth rather than the incredibly volitile BS other tech companies chase. Late to the game? Nobody cares. Something is a flop? They weather it. The butterfly keyboard was a disaster for Apple and it didn’t hurt them at all. They can take the blow if then the occasional flop because their risks are lower and planned out. They let everyone else spin their wheels while they iterate their designs based on what others failed at.

The M-series chips going gangbusters on AI is no coincidence, but at the same time, if the buyer doesn’t care about AI, that unified memory benefits them in other ways anyway. Because they planned out everything.

Which makes the Apple mouse that much more baffling.

At this point, anyone disappointed by Google has self inflicted wounds. Unless your employer forces you to use it, there's really no excuse to not Degoogle.