[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-samsung-z-fold-8-sales-jump-45-in-europe-as-iphone-duo-lands":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},12204,"samsung-z-fold-8-sales-jump-45-in-europe-as-iphone-duo-lands","Samsung Z Fold 8 Sales Jump 45% in Europe as iPhone Duo Lands","Samsung does not name Apple, but its Europe search spike landed the week the iPhone Duo was announced, and Fold 8 sales are up 45 percent.","Samsung says European sales of its newest large foldables are up 45 percent over last year's model, and the timing points at Apple's iPhone Duo.\n\nIn a blog post from its UK arm, the company said combined European sales of the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra are 45 percent higher than those of the Galaxy Z Fold 7. It also said search volume for the Z8 series across Europe jumped 460 percent the week of September 6 to 12. Apple announced the iPhone Duo, its first folding phone, on September 9. Across all of September, when the Samsung phones launched, Z Fold 8 search volume was up 260 percent. The post never mentions Apple.\n\nIt also says nothing about the Z Flip 8. Samsung has previously said larger foldables make up about 80 percent of foldable purchases, so a strong Flip number would likely have been worth including. One plausible explanation is that Apple did not announce a flip-style phone, so the Duo gave shoppers no reason to look at that format.\n\nTreat the numbers with care. They are the company's own figures, and a percentage with no base tells you little about volume. Search interest is not a purchase. The Fold 8 also launched in the same month as the Duo, and the post gives no way to separate a launch bump from an Apple bump.\n\nStill, the pattern is plausible. A big-name entrant can make a niche category legible to shoppers who had ignored it, and foldables have been a niche for years. The open question is how many of those searchers end up buying a Samsung rather than the Duo itself.","[\"samsung\",\"foldables\",\"apple\",\"iphone-duo\"]","2026-10-22T18:49:14.000Z","2026-10-22T20:13:29.321Z","2026-10-22T20:13:31.880Z","published",null,[],"consumer-tech",[26,27,28,29],"samsung","foldables","apple","iphone-duo",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"Ars Technica","https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Fgadgets\u002F2026\u002F10\u002Fsamsung-all-but-confirms-iphone-duo-is-goosing-galaxy-z8-sales\u002F",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,47,52,57,62,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",7065,"2026-10-22T21:51:25.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Security","security",1057,"2026-10-22T15:11:26.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Policy","policy",574,"2026-10-22T20:23:48.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Deals","deals",559,"2026-10-22T21:00:00.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Hardware","hardware",288,"2026-10-22T17:25:00.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":24,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech",285,"2026-10-22T22:21:59.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Science","science",216,"2026-10-22T22:12:19.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Startups","startups",144,"2026-10-22T23:15:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",142,"2026-10-23T00:09:58.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"General","general",98,"2026-10-22T21:07:09.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Gaming","gaming",88,"2026-10-22T22:25:33.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]