As i have said previously, broken folding phones cannot be blamed on bad hardware if the user is careless.

And to be clear, i am not saying its impossible for them to break on their own. Of course they can, and do, but i am am saying if your friend has gone through five of them then you have to look at the lowest common denominator.

You friend needs to take better care of their £2000 information rectangle.

Yeah! It hurts my brain to think how many models there are of it already when it felt like 2 decades waiting for the first working folding phone after samsung showed off its flexible screens.

I didnt say you can’t throw shade at apple. I don’t buy apple products either. But you weren’t arguing that apple were a bad company. You were arguing that folding phones are basically tablets. Which they are not.

If you want to talk about how shit apple is. I am not your opponent.

In fairness i replaced the inner screen protector once as it began to peel off in the middle. But yeah, it lasted a long time. But honestly you just need to not throw it around and it is fine.

I had a fold 3 for 3 years. Swapped to a fold 6 and gave my fold 3 to my wife who had it for a further 2 years before she traded it in for a second hand fold 5. She is an official convert thanks to that fold 3.

I used the fold 6 for a year before they released the 7 which was super slim and had a wider front screen which was my only real issue with the fold series.

Since my contract has “switch up” i can swap my phone every year if i want. So when the wide 8 came out i swapped the 7 for the 8. I suspect i will keep this one for a while as its the form factor i have wanted since the 3.

The fact that i have had multiple was a testament to how useful i find the phone. It was not a statement about their durability. As long as you don’t treat your phone like shit, it will last as long as you need it to.

I see people with iphones with cracked from and backs CONSTANTLY. I guarantee that is not a person who should be carrying around a £1000 to £2000 information rectangle. The inner screen of the fold and flip are not to blame for careless people.

There are plenty of fold 3s out in the wild, even fold 2s which were not nearly as durable.

In a way, yes. But in another way, no.

It is a first gen device, but the screen came from samsung and has been developed for a long time. Galaxy folds don’t break like this one does.

Apple made some bad choices in the design instead of building upon samsungs tried and tested design.

As an owner of multiple galaxy folds, I really wish people that don’t see the use case would stop treating their opinion as fact.

This is a phone that folds open into a tablet.

Not “basically a tablet”

The apple one is nothing special, its essentially the same as the wide fold 8. (The one i currently use)

I have a tablet. I don’t use it. Because it is heavy, it doesn’t fit in my pocket and i can’t make phone calls on it. All the things that make a phone different to a tablet are present on my “basically a tablet”

I have a specific use case for this phone. It suits me down to the ground. I don’t pretend this phone is for everyone, but i also don’t pretend it is for no one like you have done here.

Sorry to direct this at you, but it really does trigger me when i see this type of comment.

If you don’t see it working for you then just don’t buy one. No need to throw shade because you personally don’t like them.

I have always had mixed feelings about AI.

On one hand it is a good tool for offloading monotonous time consuming tasks that you already know how to do.

On the other, its a bad tool for outsourcing for tasks you dont know how to do.

It can be good for simple things, like i got claude code to build me a project planner and to-do list because i cant code but wanted something bespoke for me to help with my adhd. Its great for me but other people might hate it.

But if it is used in place of people figuring out complex problems in their field of expertise then it will inevitably lead to people lacking the skills to make anything and when the bubble bursts there wont be anyone left who knows how to make anything for themselves.

I am opposed to it being used so much at work, i hate getting AI responses from real people. But i am finding it increasingly difficult to find solutions to problems on forums and reddit because everything is just AI answers now :(

I also think linus using it to help him with problems he is struggling to solve is up to him. It might not be the method i would choose, but i didnt write an entire operating system.

Its a me, Dario!