Here’s How Apple Gets Folks to Pay More for a Folding iPhone
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the phone I used before my iPhone. It was a fantastic little flip feature phone called the LG EnV. It had a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera with lens cover and flash, plus it played MP3s and rocked an SD card memory slot.
- ▪I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the phone I used before my iPhone.
- ▪It was a fantastic little flip feature phone called the LG EnV.
- ▪It had a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera with lens cover and flash, plus it played MP3s and rocked an SD card memory slot.
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I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the phone I used before my iPhone. It was a fantastic little flip feature phone called the LG EnV. It had a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera with lens cover and flash, plus it played MP3s and rocked an SD card memory slot. So when Steve Jobs showed off the first iPhone in 2007, it didn’t impress me when compared with my EnV. Why would I want to downgrade to fewer features and pay more than three times as much? History doesn’t always repeat in tech, but it often rhymes. In this week’s episode of One More Thing, embedded below, I explain how folding phones are giving me that same feeling I had 19 years ago. Apple’s rumored folding iPhone is said to be a lot like the new Samsung Galaxy Fold 8.
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