Matt Birchler’s Folding iPhone Predictions
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/07/birchler-folding-iphone-predictions
@daringfireball iPhone Duo doesn’t make much sense… Remember the Macintosh PowerBook Duo? Two complementary pieces of hardware working together… With the iPhone, it’s one thing that gets folded. Doesn’t convey the right thing to me.
@daringfireball Duo would be a great name, but it didn’t work so well for Microsoft https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/
@daringfireball I went from seeing probably no folding phones last year to a noticeable amount this year in the UK. Not a lot but you can see one a week maybe, certainly one a month. I know 3 people personally with them.
The people I know are in their 40s / 50s and it feels like most strangers are older too. Might be because of the cost but people have told me they like them for aging-related issues.
@daringfireball No way it will be the "Duo" https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/
They used "Studio" which Microsoft also called one of their surface devices so I guess *maybe* but it'd be a real shocker