Samsung's Triple Fold Flop: Gone in 90 Days

Samsung’s ambitious dream of a double-folding phone has officially folded faster than the device itself. The Galaxy Z TriFold, which promised to be the peak of mobile engineering, is being discontinued after just three months on the market. With a staggering price tag of nearly twenty-nine hundred dollars—about the cost of a decent used car—Samsung is pulling the plug and listing it as permanently out of stock. It turns out that having a screen that expands to ten inches wasn't enough to justify the eye-watering cost or the sheer complexity of a device that literally warned you if you folded it at the wrong angle.nnOn paper, this thing was a spec monster, featuring a two-hundred-megapixel camera and a massive fifty-six-hundred milliamp-hour battery spread across its three panels. Yet, despite being impressively thin at just under four millimeters when opened, it seems the world wasn't quite ready for a phone that required a degree in origami to operate. While Samsung’s launch first and ask questions later strategy resulted in one of the shortest-lived products in tech history, it serves as a perfect reminder of why Apple takes its time. While others are busy withdrawing experimental prototypes from store shelves, Apple is likely sitting back and watching exactly how not to do a foldable.