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>The iPhone Duo is on our teardown table—and its broken-screen reports deserve a closer look. We take Apple’s folding phone apart to investigate the display, hinge, dust protection, and what happens when something needs fixing.

>There’s encouraging engineering inside: electrically releasing battery adhesive, accessible components, and an outer screen that comes off intact. But the flexible OLED and hinge tell a more complicated repair story.

>We examine the nano-texture cover layer under a microscope, put the phone through our fluorescent dust challenge, and strip it down to the hinge to investigate the area where screen damage is being reported. The failure mechanism remains unconfirmed, but the need for a practical repair path is clear.

>Is this the most repairable foldable we’ve opened? And how much does that help when the inner display fails?

>Watch for our provisional repairability verdict.

>Have you experienced an iPhone Duo display failure? Tell us what happened—and whether you heard a crunch before the damage appeared.

One of my biggest concerns with AI is that these companies are developing products using materials that are copyrighted or owned by someone without compensation that individual or entity. The idea of “Fair Use” as cover for stealing content from creative people is extremely distasteful in my book.

I’d love to use and support any AI company that’s trying to do the right thing by respecting creative people and content creators. I’d love to think that Apple would do that to avoid being lumped in with creepy companies like Meta and Google.

Do we know if Apple is training its LLM on copyrighted materials or any materials that are considered creative property of someone?

It’s been said more eloquently before, but AI is looking like the greatest theft in history. People deserve to be compensated for their creative efforts, whether it’s your writing on a blog or an artistic rendering that you post online (besides those where you mark the material as Free Use).

>Can the cheapest, base-model Apple M6 Mac mini with only 16GB of RAM actually handle heavy AAA Windows games?

>In this video, we push the base M6 Mac mini to its absolute limits—no cloud gaming and no game streaming.

>We start by testing the native Mac version of Cyberpunk 2077 with the new 2.5 update and Apple Silicon's MetalFX Frame Interpolator, pushing over 110 FPS at 1080p and testing how 16GB of unified memory handles 20GB+ RAM loads using SSD swap.

>Then, we fire up GameHub (using Wine, Rosetta, and Game Porting Toolkit 3.0) to run x86 Windows PC games that were never meant to run on macOS or an ARM CPU—including Red Dead Redemption 2, Halo 3, Mortal Kombat 1, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and GTA V running at a mind-blowing 4K Very High settings at over 90 FPS!

Louis is trying to track down how pervasive signing people up for services trials is in Apple Stores. I am also curios if this is some isolate incidents or if it's every store. I was in an Apple Store recently and wasn't asked to sign up for anything but I also subscribe to a few services already.

After working on it for the last 8 months, I just launched Shikaku by Hilal on the App Store yesterday. It is a minimalist logic puzzle app I built as a solo developer, and I’d love for you to try it!

There are NO ADS and NO SUBSCRIPTIONS, and you can compete with friends, family, or players around the world through leaderboards. If you give Shikaku a try, I’d love to hear what you enjoy, what feels confusing, and what you’d change!

INFO

• Shikaku is a logic puzzle with a simple rule: fill the grid with rectangles, each containing exactly one number. That number tells you the size of the rectangle. Fill the grid without gaps or overlaps, and every piece falls into place.
• Easy to learn and satisfying to solve, Shikaku offers a quick relaxing break with its Puzzle Packs or a challenge you can dive into with its Time Trials. 

FIND YOUR FAVORITE MODE

• Daily Challenges: Take on a new Easy and Hard puzzle every day. Build your streak and compare your times with friends and players around the world.
• Puzzle Packs: Explore 5000 puzzles across five grid sizes, from 4×4 to 8×8. Start small and work your way up.
• Time Trials: See how many puzzles you can solve in one, three, or five minutes.
• Quick Play: Generate a fresh puzzle whenever you want. Choose your grid size and difficulty for a challenge that suits your mood.

PLAY YOUR WAY

• Drag to draw rectangles, or enable corner tapping to place them with two taps. Use hints when you need a hand, hide timers when you’d rather relax, and enjoy puzzles offline.

MAKE IT YOURS

• Explore 100 app colors and 100 matching app icons, along with textures that give Shikaku a different feel. From soft and understated to bright and colorful, find a combination you love.

SEE YOUR PROGRESS

• Track your puzzles solved, rectangles placed, daily streaks, and more. Earn 50 Game Center achievements and compete in 18 leaderboards, including daily competitions with friends and the world.

A GAME BUILT WITH CARE

Shikaku is a passion project, built and maintained by one independent developer (me!). There are no ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking.

Daily Challenges and hundreds of puzzles are free to enjoy. Shikaku Pro unlocks the full experience with a single, one-time purchase. No recurring charges, no coins to buy, and no ads to watch for another turn.

Whether you stop by for a daily puzzle or stay for a whole pack, I’m glad you’re here. Thank you for playing!

Best,
Hilal

Try Shikaku on the App Store

TL;DR: "You can’t buy a Vision Pro with it."

>The iPhone Duo brings a new form factor to Apple's lineup. At REWA Lab, we've fully disassembled the device to uncover what's inside — from its internal layout and display components to its folding mechanism and hardware design.

>This teardown takes a closer look at how Apple has engineered its foldable iPhone and explores the details that matter from a phone repair perspective. What makes the iPhone Duo different from traditional iPhones, and what can its internal structure tell us about repairability?

I'm the solo dev behind Trackables.me. I kept quitting habit trackers the day I forgot to log, so I built one that logs most things on its own.

How it works

• Link a trackable to Apple Health, Screen Time, Calendar, Reminders or a Shortcuts timer and it fills itself in every day. Yes/no goals like 10k steps tick on their own.
• Every trackable gets its own chart: year heatmap, line, bar or progress ring, and any of them can sit on your home screen as a widget.
• You can mix sources in one chart, like sleep from Health next to screen time.
• A Mac menu bar companion adds per-app and per-website time and syncs it to your phone.

Pricing: free, automatic tracking included. Optional Pro is $4.99/mo or $47.99/yr.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6739170126

Website: https://trackables.me

What would you want a tracker like this to pull in automatically that it doesn't yet?