I Returned My iPhone Duo

19•ricobecks•46m ago

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yzydserd•16m ago

The author's first two reasons for return are not liking Touch ID or the outer screen. These are two of my favourite aspects. Each to their own. I like the short screen in particular, having always consciously felt that my focus zone was only a fraction of the slab format.

bprathamesh2003•12m ago

I prefer touch ID over face ID as well.

jb1991•10m ago

May I ask why.

vladvasiliu•4m ago

In my case, I'd like to have both. Face ID works well with a motorcycle helmet, so I don't have to take off my gloves (I can roughly work the phone with the gloves on).

But if I'm in the mountains, wearing sunglasses and a winter coat that hugs my chin and a hat that goes down to my eyebrows, face id struggles. I sometimes don't wear gloves in this situation, so touch ID would be usable.

devttyeu•3m ago

Have you used the one on Duo? It’s in a weird position, essentially always gets in the way on what you’re doing.

Just feels like a compromise on least bad form factor that apple engineers said was feasible placed at the least bad spot that apple UX designers could come up with.

But that least-bad is still just not great, not “apple great”

globular-toast•16m ago

> I used to think this was a bit boring. I’d get a new phone, restore it from a backup, and then think “what now?” It wasn’t usually appreciably different than my previous phone, and I felt like I missed the pre-iPhone days when I’d switch form factors all the time to try new things: a Sony Ericsson slab phone, a Samsung flip phone, a Nokia with a truly bonkers keypad layout. I even tried a Windows Mobile phone for a spell.

I wonder how many thousands the author has spent chasing the dragon.

lnsru•13m ago

There is always at least one guy in the room flashing newest phone. Maybe author is one of them.

throw1234567891•4m ago

The guy's business is a mobile app. Difficult to blame him to know what his app feels like without ever touching one.

albert_e•9m ago

I never bought a flagship phone until very recently but I did switch (budget) phones and still remember the excitement of trying brand new phones with very different physical and software features. I also remember recent (Android, in my case) phone upgrades feeling meh after setting up new phone.

Shank•16m ago

I feel like there are a lot of reviews like this, where people talk about why the phone wasn’t for them, but not the opposite. Why are Duo owners keeping theirs? It’s kind of maddening to only see one dimension of the device.

mattlondon•5m ago

Maybe no one is keeping them?

dansquizsoft•4m ago

I'm keeping mine - its great! Love the short outer screen, the inner screen is nice and large, the titanium build is great, love tent mode and laptop mode. Inner screen is large and its very thin when opened. The speakers are great and the cameras are as well. Idk what other info you need?

dingdongditchme•15m ago

>I’m not convinced that most apps will adapt well to the Duo

seems like the crux of the matter right there.

wahnfrieden•11m ago

Next year Apple will be culling apps that update without Duo adaptation

bprathamesh2003•13m ago

The "which screen do I use this time" decision is what I suffer with the most.

Retr0id•12m ago

This article made me realize I'd never consider returning a non-defective product, I wonder why that is.

muppetman•7m ago

Perhaps you don't crave attention as the author does?

throw1234567891•3m ago

Maybe you're very amenable, or you have too much money.

tucnak•7m ago

How did this advertisement land the second spot on HN with 6 points in 30 minutes? The typography on this blog-ad is really disgusting; it provides no character, opting for font-family -apple-system, Roboto, etc. (in this order) and whenever it tries to actually do something, it defines subheading paddings in pixel values which have been perhaps randomly determined. You can really tell this blog CSS wasn't created by AI, for it would do a better job.

rvz•5m ago

Such an accurate warning around never buying the first version of an Apple product [0]:

> "But once again as I said before, don't buy the first version of an Apple product."

This was Apple's first foldable iPhone. If the price wasn't enough of a deterrent, the defects should now be even clearer to wait until Apple fixes them in the next version.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631052

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