MApple's foldable iPhone has been out a week, and people are already cancelling preorders.
CThat was fast. What did Apple do now?
MIt's not a scandal, it's the iPhone Duo review. Marques Brownlee liked the display, hinge, battery.
CSo the hardware is good. Why cancel?
MBecause the apps are a mess. Spotify, Discord, X, Google Maps aren't optimized.
CThat's a week-one software problem. Apple will fix it.
MAt two thousand dollars, it shouldn't ship with a list of apps that don't fit the screen.
CThe first iPhone shipped without copy-paste. Early adopters know the deal.
MThat's not the same. The first iPhone changed phones. This is heavier, no Face ID, average camera.
CBut the display and hinge are apparently excellent. You're ignoring the good parts.
MI'm not ignoring them. I'm asking who pays two thousand dollars to beta test Apple's foldable experiment.
CThat poster, Justin Duke, also says he sold his Vision Pro and got all his money back.
MThe internet has no chill. But he's asking "Did I cook myself?" That's the real question.
CBut the display, hinge, and battery are getting real praise. The hardware is not the problem.
MSome early buyers report cracked inner screens, hinge popping, screen flickering.
CThose are anecdotes. Every first wave has defects.
MAt two thousand dollars, "every first wave has defects" is not a defense.
CSo your advice is wait for the second generation. Fine. Then you'll complain when Apple doesn't innovate.
MNo, my take is Apple should finish the software before taking preorders. That's not anti-innovation.
CAlright, I'll give you the apps. But people cancelling now will regret it when Apple fixes everything in six weeks.
MBloomberg's Mark Gurman called the reviews brutal, but predicted app optimization should get sorted in weeks.
CSo even Gurman thinks it's temporary!
MSure, if you believe the apps will all update. But the missing Face ID and weight won't change.
CThose are tradeoffs, not dealbreakers. You want Face ID? Buy an iPhone 18 Pro Max.
MYou sound like an Apple ad.
CI'm an engineer. I like hardware. Sue me.
MI'm not cancelling my preorder—oh wait, I never made one.
CThere it is.
CSpeaking of people cancelling things: Pieter Levels posted on X about a blocklist of over ten thousand accounts.
MTen thousand? That's a big list.
CHe posted about Dillon Mulroy, quote, "He's doing God's work." Mulroy said "the list works."
MSo what's the list supposed to do?
CLevels says he's publishing names of accounts he calls AI reply spammers—bots leaving garbage under popular posts.
MA public blocklist of ten thousand accounts. What could go wrong?
CSpam, as he sees it, is drowning the platform. An indie developer took a swing.
MBut how does he decide who's a bot? Half these accounts might be real people with bad grammar.
CHe's been tracking patterns for months. No one else is cleaning it up.
MThat doesn't make a vigilante list accurate. False positives ruin real users.
CFalse positives are a problem with every spam filter. You don't throw out the whole idea.
MYou do if the list becomes a weapon. People will block everyone they disagree with.
CThat's not what this is. It's a list of accounts he says are AI-generated reply spam.
MAnd you trust one guy's judgment on ten thousand accounts?
CI trust him more than the platform doing nothing. I'd rather see the list than not.
MAs long as nobody gets added for saying "great post."
CThat's the bar. Say "great post" and you're cooked.
MI'd still like to see the method before anyone treats it as gospel.
CFair. But the energy is right: people are sick of bot replies.
MAnd Roger Douglas Ware posted on X that Apple's eye tracking would be perfect for a hands-free Blastar.
CSo we're reviving a 1984 space shooter with modern eye tracking? I'm in.
MHe says the iPhone and Vision Pro eye tracking make a gaze-aimed version possible.
CI want to see Musk play it. He might still have the high score.
MWare says the game sold for about five hundred dollars when he was twelve. Not a bad first coding job.
CNo argument. You build a game at twelve, you can call yourself a founder.
MAlright, that's the lightest story we've had all hour.