[mlyle]

Early adopters always have this experience: expensive products, with issues preventing mass-adoption, with uncertain vendor support in the long term.

I'm not sure whether foldable phones will become what everyone uses, but this is typical for new products that have not started zipping up the S curve.

[caddemon]

Dunno if they'll become ubiquitous, but I think various foldable forms will at least stick around as a viable market segment. Most early-ish adopters I know from the zFold and zFlip 3 generation are planning to get another when it's time to upgrade. Granted that's a biased sample of like 5% of the people I know IRL, but still it's not too common to see that much agreement after a year+ of use for a product that's just a gimmick.