{"id":1034338,"date":"2026-09-10T08:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034338"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:20:35","slug":"apple-enters-late-but-sets-the-rules-a-1999-bet-on-the-foldable-market-with-iphone-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/10\/apple-enters-late-but-sets-the-rules-a-1999-bet-on-the-foldable-market-with-iphone-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Apple enters late but sets the rules&#8217;: A $1,999 bet on the foldable market with iPhone Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has finally entered the foldable smartphone market, years after Samsung and Huawei. But the company\u2019s first foldable iPhone is less about catching up and more about using the sheer scale of the iPhone ecosystem to reshape a category that is still relatively small. <\/p>\n<p>The iPhone Duo, priced at Rs 2,99,900 in India, is Apple\u2019s answer to Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold and Huawei\u2019s foldable lineup. And according to IDC vice president Francisco Jeronimo, Apple\u2019s late entry could actually work in its favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has finally entered the foldable smartphone market, years after Samsung and Huawei. But the company\u2019s first foldable iPhone is less about catching up and more about using the sheer scale of the iPhone ecosystem to reshape a category that is still relatively small. The iPhone Duo, priced at Rs 2,99,900 in India, is Apple\u2019s answer to Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold and Huawei\u2019s foldable lineup. And according to IDC vice president Francisco Jeronimo, Apple\u2019s late entry could actually work in its favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034371,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034338\/revisions\/1034371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}