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Winners & losers: Buyers of expensive Apple products, which, let's face it, includes almost all of them, tend to face a dilemma: should they also hand over the not insubstantial recurring fee for AppleCare. If the person in question is buying an iPhone Duo, then the answer is yes, definitely, especially when its fragile inner screen cost $999 to repair, with other damage reaching as high as $1,499.

Apple's first-ever foldable phone, the iPhone Duo , launches today. With a price ranging from $1,999 to $3,199, it's Cupertino's most expensive phone to date, but buying one without AppleCare could prove even more costly.

Apple has listed some of the estimated repair costs for the iPhone Duo on its repair services page.…