Why, hello there

Get ready to meet your new iPhone.

Coming in September: Apple’s first foldable iPhone, newly rendered in all its glory.

OK, right now you say that you don’t want it, but check out these new images.

There’s no way come September you’re not going to want this — no way!

With its clever, book-shaped design, which folds out into basically an iPad mini, this thing is gonna fly off shelves.

It’ll offer the best of both worlds: a capable iPhone when folded, but a powerful little multitasking minicomputer when unfolded.

It reminds me of Steve Jobs’ pitch for the first iPhone — three devices in one — but this time it’s an iPhone, an iPad and a wallet vacuum in one, and I predict it’ll be very popular.

It’s likely going to be my next iPhone. What about you?

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One more thing ...

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[If] you've got incredibly talented people that are also rare and in demand. If you don't treat them right, they can go get another job in 10 minutes. So this strange thing happens, which is the hierarchy of power inverts, and the CEO is actually at the bottom. So I feel like I work for most of these people, because they're the ones that are doing all the brilliant work.

— Steve Jobs, 1996.

Today’s poll

Now are you interested in a folding iPhone?

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