$3,200 for a 2TB iPhone Duo? Let’s compare to Samsung and Google’s flagship foldables

The 2TB iPhone Duo costs a whopping $3,199. Apple’s foldable phone is pricey, but not the most expensive on the market. A MacBook Pro may be a smarter $3,200 buy. “Even if I were an Apple fan, my answer would be ‘Hell, no.’” That’s what my ZDNET colleague Steven Vaughan-Nichols said when I told him I was planning to write an article tentatively titled, “Would you spend $3,200 on an iPhone?” After Apple revealed its new $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo at yesterday’s Apple Event, I noticed something troubling. That hefty $1,999 was for a 256GB version. 256 gigabytes is not a lot of storage for a phone where the “iPhone Duo gives the camera system you love delightful new features,” including the ability to “capture dazzling 48MP photos and 4K 120 fps videos.” I once had a 256GB iPhone. I used it to shoot a lot of 4K iPhone video. Even though I used…