Apple's iPhone Duo is getting roasted over screen cracks

Apple's iPhone Duo is getting roasted over screen cracks By Katherine Li You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Apple's new iPhone Duo is inspiring viral internet memes about its T-shaped screen cracks and its doomscrolling potential.

Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Apple's long-awaited iPhone Duo is here, and while a folding phone is nothing new, it's the company's first, and it has a waitlist a mile long. However, Apple diehards with Duo already in hand are reporting issues with the folding screen , and some have posted about their buyer's remorse online. The cracking screen Early owners have reported cracks along the Duo's center fold, sometimes accompanied by a bright line of stuck pixels across one side of the inner display.

Apple said the issue affects a "small number" of units and directed affected customers to AppleCare for replacements. The reports have also generated crack-themed jokes and wallpapers online — though some widely shared images of damaged Duo screens have been altered or AI-generated. One X account made a wallpaper for those who could not afford the Duo but would like to experience the crack.

In a statement to Business Insider, Apple said that the response to iPhone Duo from early users has been "incredibly positive." "If users experience issues with their iPhone Duo display, they should contact AppleCare for a replacement," Apple said. The crypto memes The crypto world made a connection to the iPhone Duo when the official Crypto.com account posted earlier in October about how the folding phone would be perfect for traders. The association soon became memes playing on the stereotype that crypto traders are delusional and unemployed.

The multi-screen design Many believe that the iPhone Duo's multi-screen design will be hazardous to our already short attention span by allowing multiple activities at once. While the Duo's 7.6-inch inner display supports two apps side by side, its 5.4-inch outer display can be used when the phone is closed. That setup has also prompted jokes about what is known as a "performative male," referring to men publicly pretending to enjoy certain niche genres of books and music in order to attract women.

Another post, more of a real video than a meme, demonstrated the iPhone Duo's potential to exacerbate doomscrolling. For anyone worried that one screen wasn't enough for your nightly scroll, Apple has a $1,999 solution. Read next Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Katherine Li You're currently following this author!

Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Katherine Li is a reporter on Business Insider's West Coast business news team. She covers career, the future of work, and how AI is changing hiring practices and workplace trends.

Previously, she was a newsroom fellow who wrote international breaking news and produced newsletters for Semafor. Before that, she wrote about climate policies for The Lever, covered the AAPI community for the SF Chronicle as a freelancer, and wrote about the 2019 Hong Kong protests as an intern for The New York Times. She is an alumna of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and a graduate of the international journalism program at Hong Kong Baptist University with minors in French and English literature.

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