Apple's long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo

**Apple's long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo** Apple concluded its recent hardware event with a classic "One more thing" reveal, finally entering the foldable smartphone market after years of intense speculation. While some smartphone manufacturers have been offering foldable phones for nearly a decade, Apple has now joined the fray with the highly anticipated iPhone Duo. This new device is undeniably the most capable iPhone ever released, and also its most expensive, starting at $1,999. This pricing places it in a similar range to foldable offerings from competitors like Google and Samsung, and notably, it's not as costly as many industry observers had anticipated. The iPhone Duo aims to deliver an "iPad in your pocket" experience. Its design, featuring a wider, shorter chassis, would have appeared revolutionary just a few months ago. However, Samsung has recently made significant strides with its Galaxy Z Fold 8, which shares a similar form factor. Apple prefaced its reveal with a strong denunciation of foldables that open into a square aspect ratio. The company argued that while such a shape might accommodate two portrait apps side by side reasonably well, it performs poorly in almost all other scenarios, awkwardly stretching single applications and leaving videos with excessively large black bars.