Apple may lock foldable iPhone Ultra multitasking behind $2,000, so we asked if you'd pay

We asked you how you felt about Apple maybe locking real split-screen multitasking to the $2,000 foldable iPhone Ultra, something the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and other top foldables handle while the iPhone 17 Pro Max still can't. Many of you answered, and most just wouldn't pay for it.

What we put to a vote, and what you said back

When we covered Jon Prosser's latest leak, his Front Page Tech renders and iOS 27 code pointed to one catch: real split-screen multitasking that may stay locked to the Ultra. Prosser's Apple record leans more hits than misses, so we asked how it sat with you.

The answer came back lopsided, just not the way Apple would hope. Nearly two-thirds of you came down on some version of no, between Android owners who have had this for years (33 percent) and folks calling $2,000 to multitask a joke (31.59 percent).

Android owners have heard this pitch before

Most of the pushback makes sense once you see where multitasking already lives. On Android it is the baseline, not a headline feature, and our Galaxy Z Fold 7 review barely mentions running two or three windows at once.



If you are reading this on a Fold, none of this touches you, since Apple is asking $2,000 to catch up on what Android already does.

The exclusivity angle is the quieter tell. Barely any of you minded it might skip the iPhone 18, even as we covered how iOS 27 may give Apple its own version. You questioned the price, not who gets it.

Who came out of this saying yes

The roughly 28 percent who said yes are who this phone is for: heavy multitaskers who want a tablet in their pocket and accept the price of entry. Two apps on a 7.8-inch screen is the whole point for them.

Everyone else split on value, not the feature. If you just want one phone that runs two apps, you do not need to wait on the iPhone 18 or spend Ultra money, since Android has done it for years.

Why I am closer to yes than most of you

I am sold on foldables for the flexibility, and that multitasking boost is the real draw, so I sit closer to that 28 percent than most of you. What I do not love is the price, the same wall you ran into.

That said, $2,000 foldables are not new. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 has asked that for a while and our review still called it a winner.

What is harder to defend, if the exclusivity holds, is Apple charging that much to catch up on software Android shipped years ago. I would love to see real multitasking on every iPhone, not just the one with the Ultra badge.

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