For many people the phone is the only computing device they use. Keeping portability and offering a larger display is a compelling offering for those people.

I tend to agree with you.

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bigfishrunning 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> For many people the phone is the only computing device they use.

I suspect the crossover area of the Venn diagram between people who spend what a foldable costs on a phone and people who have no other computing device is extremely small.

	▲	mostlysimilar 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why so? For most people a computer (in the traditional keyboard/mouse sense) isn't a leisure device, a phone is. They scroll social media feeds and watch YouTube or whatever. I'm sure most of us on HN use them for leisure, but for most people a computer is a device for work, not for play.