As Apple prepares to unveil its first foldable iPhone Ultra at a starting price of around two thousand dollars, repair experts are sounding a quiet but consequential alarm: the true cost of ownership may extend far beyond the purchase price. When a single cracked inner screen could cost over a thousand dollars to fix — a premium tied in part to Apple sourcing its display components from Samsung Display — the device asks its owners not just for their money, but for their vigilance. In the long arc of consumer technology, this moment reflects a familiar tension between the allure of innovation a