Apple enters a crowded foldable smartphone market in China – can it beat Huawei?

Apple’s long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market, the iPhone Duo, has drawn immediate attention in China over its eye-watering price tag and exclusive dual-eSIM design, as the American tech giant targets entrenched domestic rivals Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi.Unveiled on Wednesday, the iPhone Duo – Apple’s thinnest and most expensive flagship model yet – captured the attention of Chinese consumers with its smooth transition between inner and outer displays. By Thursday morning, the hashtag #iPhoneDuoFoldAnimationIsPerfect had surged to second place on microblogging platform Weibo.Tech blogger Weibusi, who has 1.6 million followers on Weibo, praised the device’s redesigned interface for extending the familiar iPhone experience across folded and unfolded modes, rather than simply replicating iPadOS.