A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate
The teardown gives people something concrete to point at while Apple stays silent. Users on the iPhone Duo subreddit describe the same failure arc over and over: the hinge catches, there's an audible crack, and the screen dies within hours of opening the box. A single faulty hinge component would explain why those failures cluster so tightly. If the YouTuber's dissection holds up, those individual complaints become a documented design flaw.
I want to see a second teardown before I fully buy in. One person with a screwdriver and a camera can be wrong, and component-level diagnosis deserves independent verification. But even if the specific culprit turns out to be different, the pattern is clear enough: Apple has a quality problem, not a few unlucky units.
The bigger question is what this means for foldables as a category. When a device fails this fast and this consistently, it undercuts the argument that the technology is ready for daily use. I'd want to know how many units Apple sold versus how many crackgate reports exist, because volume matters. Until then, this reads as a cautionary tale about shipping ambitious hardware before it's truly baked.