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Apple's New iPhone Duo Breaks After 75,000 Folds in Real-Life Test

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CUPERTINO, Calif. & NEW YORK — In what was engineered to be the crowning achievement of Apple Inc.’s hardware roadmap, the newly launched multi-display foldable—dubbed the "iPhone Duo"—has encountered a high-profile engineering setback. Rigorous, independent stress-testing conducted by third-party hardware diagnostics laboratories has confirmed that the flagship device suffered catastrophic display failure and structural hinge fatigue at precisely 75,320 fold cycles. The result falls drastically short of the industry-standard 200,000-to-400,000 cycle threshold, triggering immediate anxiety across Wall Street, disruptive reverberations throughout Asia’s precision electronics supply chain, and urgent crisis management within

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