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Apple debuted the company’s first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that’s where the firsts end
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Even Apple itself has a history of products called the Duo.
Key facts
- Merging the functionality of the TurboGrafx-16 console and the TurboGrafx-CD that added CD-ROM functionality, the NEC TurboDuo (later rebranded to the Duo) launched in North America in 1993
- First released in 2016 and eventually merged into Google Meet in 2022, Google Duo was the company’s proprietary VoIP service meant to compete with products like Skype or Zoom and replace Hangouts
- Even Apple itself has a history of products called the Duo
- Apple announced the company’s first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that’s where the firsts end
Summary
Apple announced the company’s first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that’s where the firsts end. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs popularized the saying “good artists copy, great artists steal,” but will the iPhone Duo’s folding screen, which features a custom nano-texture display material to help minimize the visibility of its crease, be enough to make them forget these other Duos that have come before it? Merging the functionality of the TurboGrafx-16 console and the TurboGrafx-CD that added CD-ROM functionality, the NEC TurboDuo (later rebranded to the Duo) launched in North America in 1993 after debuting in Japan a few years earlier as the PC Engine Duo. First released in 2016 and eventually merged into Google Meet in 2022, Google Duo was the company’s proprietary VoIP service meant to compete with products like Skype or Zoom and replace Hangouts.