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Apple Acquires Israeli Camera Tech Company LinX Imaging for ~$20 Million

dannyyankou said:
no other prior rumors
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[citation required]

You link to a report from 5 days prior to the September launch event. Bloomberg broke the iWatch news back in 2013.

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/02/1...0-product-designers-working-on-a-smart-watch/

From your link: "Echoing earlier reports, Kuo believes Apple will unveil the iWatch at its upcoming September event, with sales starting in 2015. "

Also: "We expect casing material to be of 2-4 different types . . . iWatch will be rectangular in front/ panel side shape."

:eek:

Again, blindingly obvious. And like Nostradamus, vague enough to be "right" even when he isn't.
 
JarScott said:
It's down to which makes more money and is more popular.
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Ries said:
The hardware guy has no idea if his idea will take off or not.

The "website" with million of users, even thou not profitable, knows that each users information and activity is worth something, so he can say pay me x$ for each user i have.
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it comes down to what is essentially called "goodwill"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)

how much perceived value does that company have to make profit from some form of business in the future.

it is factored into any company purchase. In cases like these development houses and small manufacturers, while the components are integral and will earn profit, their based on high volume, low margin business. the goodwill, and therefore total purchase price of that will be small

where, these online sites that sell for a lot, gain a tremendous amount of this goodwill because in this day of age, information is money. these vast databases of user information can be monetized a lot more, for larger profits at lower costs than any physical manufacturing ever, this we're seeing ridiculously high perceived value
 
thelookingglass said:
SLR quality from an iPhone would be flat out terrific.
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t.gillespie said:
I especially don't mind if it gets us SLR level photography. :eek:
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WTF does "SLR quality" even mean? It's such a lazy and ambiguous phrase thrown about by all of these people who don't understand cameras. It doesn't mean anything. There are countless reasons where an SLR excels over current phone cameras. It's certainly possible (even probable) that smartphones will eventually match them in certain areas, but again, there are many areas of evaluation. And it's not like camera tech on SLRs is at a standstill either.
 
Cisco_Kid said:
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates.

Boy was he wrong, and you will be as well.
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that was also not a matter of physics.

humans haven't overcome physics yet.

all gates did was make an inaccurate prediction on the power of computing and what people would use it for.

last I checked, (and maybe we as a species might in the future), we haven't developed the way of manipulating the laws of physics.
 
KazKam said:
You can pack as many sensors as you want at resolutions that are stupid-high, but all you're capturing is as good as what's coming through the "glass".
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Exactly. This is why I use my iPhone for snapshots and carry a DSLR for photographs.
 
NYC Matt said:
[citation required]

You link to a report from 5 days prior to the September launch event. Bloomberg broke the iWatch news back in 2013.

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/02/1...0-product-designers-working-on-a-smart-watch/

From your link: "Echoing earlier reports, Kuo believes Apple will unveil the iWatch at its upcoming September event, with sales starting in 2015. "

Also: "We expect casing material to be of 2-4 different types . . . iWatch will be rectangular in front/ panel side shape."

:eek:

Again, blindingly obvious. And like Nostradamus, vague enough to be "right" even when he isn't.
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Ok, so he echoed the rumors about a September unveiling and a 2015 release. I guess his predictions about it coming in aluminum and gold, 8gb, and 2 screen sizes were just lucky guesses.
 
here is the difference in picture quality. Absolutely amazing!
LinX+vs+iPhone+5s.jpg
 
rp2011 said:
here is the difference in picture quality. Absolutely amazing!
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its a good improvement, and uses ultimately a software trick to produce such results.

its good. just not DSLR quality.

what essentially happens in these multi-camera setups is that the sensors are close enough together to fundamentally take a near identical photo. the software than does a comparison between the two and attempts to fill in the "noise" with the pixels from the other sensor.

you can see on the right side, that the noise is virtually gone, however, the colours and quality still looks like a photo edit (at least to me)
 
Cuban Missles said:
This is terrible news. I was hoping for minimum updates on the 6s and planned to skip it. Therefore I used the saved money to buy the watch. Now, I will stew with envy for a year until I can buy the 7. :mad::eek::D
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Don't worry it will take them years to implement this. It took them forever to implement USB 3 in the computers.
 
I could have paid to upgrade early, but I knew the 6S would be worth the wait.

Though I guess this will be in the iPhone 7, as they've only just bought the company?

While we're on the subject of Apple running 15 months ahead, didn't they cut it close with the Watch. Shouldn't they already have an Apple Watch 2 pretty much finished by now?
 
This could get me to upgrade!!! Stoked to see what the new camera looks like. Hopefully they put the same camera in both (all three?) phone options!
 
Let's hope Apple use it to improve their own products, and have not just bought it, to kill it, and stop others using it to improve their products.
 
Moonjumper said:
Hopefully this will mean the end of the camera bulge on the iPhone. Multiple half height sensors should do it.
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the camera ring is a complete non-issue IRL. even if naked, laying on a flat surface, it presents no trouble or annoyance to operations. some people just need to get over their OCD.
 
pezj said:
This could get me to upgrade!!! Stoked to see what the new camera looks like. Hopefully they put the same camera in both (all three?) phone options!
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Yep, i skipped on the iPhone 6, but if this is in the 6S, then my mind is already made up.
 
techwhiz said:
It's all cool, but let's stop pretending; it's not SLR quality.

Sensor size does matter. You will never get the performance of an SLR out of a small sensor.
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Have you seen photos produced by this tech? If not then I don't believe you know enough to assume this won't encroach on SLR territory.
 
filmantopia said:
Have you seen photos produced by this tech? If not then I don't believe you know enough to assume this won't encroach on SLR territory.
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See below

rp2011 said:
here is the difference in picture quality. Absolutely amazing!
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if this is whats to be expected, They're still a long way off. its good. Does a good job at smoothing out the noise via software, but there are still significant image degradation issues that in no way even matches what you will get on a large sensor format camera.
 
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