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Apple says more than 100,000 apps are now built for its iPhone Duo foldable

Microsoft Word and Outlook, Zoom, Etsy and the NBA and NHL apps are among the latest arrivals, while Duo ship times have slipped into next year.

By West Coast News staff ·
Aerial view of Apple Park in Cupertino, California
Apple Park, Apple's headquarters in Cupertino.

Apple said Friday that more than 100,000 apps built for the iPhone Duo, its new foldable, are live on the App Store, with thousands more arriving every day. Early reviews of the device had faulted the small number of optimized apps at launch. Apps that have not been updated run with a black bar down the side of the screen and sometimes hide functions in an overflow menu.

The milestone came with more than a dozen notable updates, including Microsoft Word and Outlook, Zoom, the NBA and NHL apps, Etsy, LTK, Goodnotes and the Halide Mark III camera app. Apple also listed coming updates from Spotify, ChatGPT, Canva, Strava and others, not all of which had rolled out by Friday. More than 2,000 developers attended over 50 in-person workshops Apple held in 19 cities to prepare their apps. "It's been wonderful to see how quickly developers have embraced iPhone Duo," said Susan Prescott, Apple's vice president of worldwide developer relations.

The Duo starts at $1,999 U.S. for the 256GB model and sold out within hours of orders opening. Ship times have moved into next year, and Apple said on its earnings call this week that it was "hard to predict" when the supply constraints would ease.

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