The iPhone Duo (and the Rest)

Besides the showmanship demonstrated by the keynote opening (nice touches there, Tim) and the visual effect when you open it, the iPhone Duo is… strangely familiar, and yet, somehow just strange as well: I am not a fan of the weird signal/battery status bar indicator or the vertical dock, although the ergonomics of moving toolbars there are undeniable–the bottom-right buttons are going to be very hard to reach single-handedly, though I am a fan of having Touch ID back, as well as the under-display camera (which I suspect will eventually find its way downrange over the next few years) I kept wanting to see the typing experience in “laptop” mode and Apple Pencil support (Apple says support for the USB-C Pencil is coming later this year) Most of the UX we saw so far was both predictable and familiar to anyone who’s played with a Samsung Z Fold (Apple did not invent screen splits, app swaps or drag and drop), and so was the camera placement. Oh, and the price, of course. Definitely not a…