A muddled and entirely unverifiable rumor claims that Apple has been testing other manufacturer’s folding phones and decided to put the iPhone Fold on hold.
Weibo user Fixed Focus Digital, explains that Apple has bought several existing folding phones to test. Perhaps the report is unclear because of machine translation, but it seems to say that at least one of these rival phones broke within a few days of Apple buying it for testing.
It’s no surprise that a folding phone will fail under testing, because they will specifically be tested to the point of failure. That Apple would conclude it wasn’t worth pursuing the idea if Samsung, for instance, can’t make an unbreakable folding phone seems less likely.
It’s now almost five years since Samsung launched its Galaxy Fold phone, although initial reviews concentrated on how the screen was fragile. Apple has arguably been under pressure to compete ever since, and Samsung has improved its designs.
This story originally appeared on Appleinsider
