Before a single unit reaches a consumer's hands, Apple's long-anticipated foldable iPhone is already contending with the weight of its own ambition. Rising memory component costs are inflating the device's bill of materials, while leaked pricing of $2,000 raises the older, unresolved question of how much the market will bear for novelty wrapped in premium engineering. The history of transformative technology is littered with products that arrived too expensive and too soon — and Apple, for all its trend-setting power, is not immune to that pattern.