Apple's $1,999 Foldable Has a Lefty Problem

Apple spent years perfecting the iPhone. Then it shipped one that's upside down for ten percent of its customers. The new $1,999 iPhone Duo — the company's first foldable — is catching heat from left-handed users who say the entire device is engineered for righties: camera button on the right, Touch ID on the right, volume on the right. Switch it to your left hand and every control lands in the worst possible spot.

And the complaint isn't just about buttons. The fingerprint sensor placement, the fold direction, the way the thing wants to be gripped — all of it tuned for the other ninety percent. For two grand, "ambidextrous" feels like a low bar.

Here's the math Apple seems fine ignoring: roughly one in ten people is left-handed. For a flagship launch that's not a rounding error — it's tens of millions of buyers whose dominant hand physically fights the device. Your move, Cupertino.

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Source: New York Post