Apple’s design philosophy is all about perfection, which may explain why there is no foldable iPhone launch is due to their visible creases
    • ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      462·
      12 days ago

      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.

      • Lemming6969@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        11 days 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.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      12 days ago

      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

      • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
        12·
        12 days 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.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
      937·
      12 days ago

      Except Huawei Mate XS 2, Honor Magic V2, Oppo Find N.

      Edit: search engine link unreliable.

  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1459·
    12 days ago

    I’m shocked that Apple didn’t just make the crease more obvious and consider it a design element and advertise it as something the consumer wants.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      317·
      12 days ago

      I mean for all the things you can meme on Apple for, releasing products for the sake of releasing something isn’t something they’re known for. See Air Power.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        11 days ago

        For every AirPower there’s a $999 ProStand. Apple is just a greedy company, like everyone else in tech. They are just more picky on the bullshit they sell, but they still sell bullshit.

        • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          22·
          11 days ago

          I have a theory on those stands and stuff. It’s a marketing ploy as people will be talking about the absurdity of it and that’s free advertising for them.

    • coolfission@lemm.eeEnglish
      221·
      12 days ago

      Yeah just like the notch and dynamic island. They even brought the notch to Macbooks since Apple thinks it makes their brand look more uniform.

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        And I hate every second of it on my work macbook. How one could think cutting out the middle from the space that has to house your applications menu(IntelliJs is huge for example) and your tray icons, which can be quite a lot too, and then not have a function to keep either of them from just disappearing behind that cutout is asinine.

        No No, I didn’t need thos menu items anyway…