EQUIPThe Verge · 3d ago
Apple addresses iPhone Duo copycats
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Apple leadership has addressed the emergence of competitor devices that mimic the iPhone Duo's passport-shaped folding design. CEO John Ternus cited shared global supply chains as a primary factor complicating the company's efforts to maintain product development secrecy.
- 01Apple is competing against multiple manufacturers that released passport-shaped folding smartphones earlier this year
- 02Global supplier overlap enables competitors to anticipate and replicate Apple hardware designs quickly
- 03CEO John Ternus confirms that maintaining hardware secrecy is increasingly difficult in modern manufacturing
- 04The iPhone Duo launch highlights systemic vulnerabilities in the international technology supply chain
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Apple was far from the first company to announce a passport-shaped folding phone this year, but that doesn't mean it wasn't copied. As my colleague Dom Preston already explained, it's almost impossible to keep product development secret when Apple and its competitors all share the same global suppliers. Apple's new CEO John Ternus and head […]