Editor’s Choice: Apple’s not-so-surprising, hard-to-afford foldable phone

Hello from Tokyo. Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo on Wednesday, its first-ever foldable iPhone. While the company created the vast smartphone market with the launch of the original iPhone 19 years ago, it’s been a latecomer to foldable phones. Samsung’s Galaxy series and Google’s Pixel lineup have already offered foldable smartphones globally for some time, and China’s Huawei even showed off a tri-fold model just days before Apple’s event. For Apple’s loyal fans worldwide, the arrival of the iPhone Duo has been long awaited. However, based on the promotional video, the iPhone Duo looks like a somewhat underwhelming and not-so-surprising…