Unfolded iPhone Duo Lets You Preview Documents in a Two-Page Layout

That’s a lot of space wasted around the content though. What happened to the Liquid Glass doctrine of using floating controls to prioritize and maximize the content?

I can’t wait to not be able to read the text

Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited for the Duo.. but why is there so much wasted space on the sides and bottoms ?

wow, two-page document preview. my ipad has been doing this for years, but apparently folding an iphone in half turns basic ipad functionality into a groundbreaking innovation. 😂

Is it just me, or was that opening animation a lot cleaner and smoother during the keynote? I remember seeing that and thinking, “that’s a slick animation,” but it was kind of janky in that post.

The simulator has horrible performance, on my M1 MBA it’s literally unusable and it chugs like crazy on the M1 Max Studio

Yes, I get the general idea, and to some extent, it is an innovation. But my point is that it doesn't seem to warrant a dedicated news story—especially since it’s just a render.

In the past, I’d simply get a new iPhone, and Apple would say, "Here’s the new flat design," and that was it. Now, they try to present every single pixel of the new design as a separate news item and an innovation.

OK, I appreciate what your are saying, but two things:

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* It's MacRumors — this level of glazy-nerdy-focus it literally what keeps the lights on. Or people would only show up a few times a year for an event, or when they need to differ to the Buyer's Guide,
* As a UX designer, this is massive within iOS UX development and opens creative possibilities. It's not to say it's original for foldable — Android has the HALF_OPENED device state to target, and you can specifically target Tabletop or Book Posture, but this is completely different for iOS development. That's the kind of stuff I come here for. That there is legitimate thoughtfulness being considered for UX in this state, and they are making it that easy to target, is kinda awesome. I already have two tandem projects I'm working on trying to do something cool in that state.

I know it's just a render, but those of us that haven't installed the SDK Beta yet, nor have a project to simulate on the Duo — or aren't developers at all — may find that peek behind the curtain really interesting. I did, again — not because it's groundbreaking, but because we hadn't seen it before.

I get you may be using this site from the perspective of a consumer interested in tech — awesome — but many of us developers, designers, and engineers leverage this site from a much different perspective that just so happens to have an overlap in the Venn diagram this site represents. A peak into code snippets are cool for a consumer (an interesting product may be coming) but we may see it as something coming down the pike to target in code. As I say to friends on Comic book sites it's fine if a topic covered doesn't interest you, it probably interests someone else, and it's really cool that a site like these has a little something for everyone, rather than needing to have everything need to appeal to everyone.