The Galaxy Fold makes no sense as a consumer device yet
The foldable Galaxy Fold phone-tablet hybrid is Samsung’s Google Glass: an exciting technical showcase that is hitting the market far too soon and risks souring everyone on the entire nascent category.
Pardon me for being such a strident skeptic, but I’ve seen this pattern too many times before: it happened with the first iteration of 3D cameras on phones (RIP, HTC EVO 3D), it happened with modular phones (RIP, Project Ara), and it happened with Android Wear smartwatches (which are trudging on as unloved, purposeless zombies). The failed hype cycle has a common basic structure: take an application of technology that has universal, self-explanatory appeal, build a few prototypes, get to a stage where the product doesn’t look hideous, and…
