Apple unveiled iPhone Duo beside the 18 Pro at John Ternus's first event, with the foldable priced higher. [1] Reuters filed two products, not one. [1] This paper printed October shelves on this page. Monday still has two names. A slab is not a fold. 18 Pro is not Duo.

October remains the foldable's shelf month. September 14 is not a merge day. No single-SKU notice is in fetched copy. A pricier foldable is a price, not a merged nameplate.

Keynote clips flatten product lines by design; buying pages restore the distinctions. Shoppers comparing prices will find two phones, two prices, two ship dates. The merge exists only in recaps.

Two-tier launches let Apple price the future above the present: the 18 Pro for this year's upgraders, the Duo for early adopters with deeper pockets. Merging the two in copy would erase the pricing story Reuters actually filed. They stay separate on this page as in the store.

Separate stores stay separate; Monday separates. Separating is the update. Merges live in recaps.

The 18 Pro is this year's upgrader; the Duo is the deeper pocket. Reuters filed two prices. Merging them erases the story.

John Ternus put a slab and a fold on the same stage, not into the same box. The 18 Pro remains the non-folding phone. Duo remains the fold, dated later and priced higher. Recaps that collapse those two into one device are misreading the event.
Recaps that merge them misread the event. The 18 Pro remains the non-folding phone. Reuters filed two prices.

Recaps that merge them misread the event. The 18 Pro remains the non-folding phone. Reuters filed two prices.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing