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iPhone Duo is typical Apple – never first, usually best

Apple has been practically mocked for how many years it has taken for it to release a foldable iPhone, but yet again it’s proven it knew what it was doing all along.

Hand holding a foldable smartphone with colorful app icons, weather widget, and map, alongside a blackandwhite technical drawing showing a flexible, hinged device design with numbered annotations.
It took 15 years from the patent on the left to the iPhone Duo on the right – images credit: Apple.

Think of the iPhone. Or the iPod, the Mac, the iPad, AirPods, AirTags, the Apple Watch… Actually, try to think of anything where Apple was actually first to market.

Apple wasn’t even the first company to make a laptop Mac. To even arguably find a product Apple made first, you have to go back to the Apple II. Even then, as revolutionary as it was, there had been computers before it.

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