For years, the iPhone held a kind of generational gravity among young users — not merely as a device, but as a social contract. Now, Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 is drawing hundreds of thousands of those users away in South Korea alone, with 680,000 number ports marking the country's highest migration of the year. The foldable phone's fundamentally different form appears to have done what incremental improvements could not: given a generation permission to reconsider a choice they never knew they were making. Whether this is a regional moment or the opening of a wider generational turn remains th