They use cameras as a crutch to justify yearly updates so this would remain a possibility if they felt it was the only way to advance it. The only iPhone 13 commercial I’ve seen airing is the the “look you can shoot a movie on our phone” one which I swear they’ve already done at least twice already for previous models.
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Apple Starts Planning a Future iPhone's Cameras Around Three Years in Advance
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i see your confusion now but iphones have multiple cameras. 11-13 pro have 3, 7-13 have 2.
They do. There are actually folks that believe Apple didn’t make a decision on the Apple Watch shape until a couple weeks ago. But I believe that’s because leakers, that want you to think they are directly connected to everything going on at Apple or in the supply chain, need for folks to believe that, when the leaker is wrong, it’s because Apple made a decision RIGHT after seeing their post about it
To spite them. LOLI don't know. It's really just a slab of glass and metal with a bunch of sensors and cameras on it. It seems like other manufacturers are doing gimmicky stuff like "making it fold" but aside from making it thinner or picking some new ornamentation, the form factor seems pretty well defined at this point.
When a word has an apostrophe and s, it's a possessive for a singular noun
Maybe AW7 was a contingency plan or maybe it wasn't but even if it was we don't know how long it took to develop since we know neither the beginning nor the end of the development cycle.
Maybe Apple always develops two devices for each annual cycle, the one it hopes and expects to get into production which gets the lion's share of resources and is the more ambitious but at the same time a much smaller team is developing a much less ambitious "just enough" update in case plan A hits problems. Or perhaps Plan B development doesn't really start at exactly the same time as Plan A but does start a lot earlier than you seem to imply.
And then there's the end date. Apple didn't specify an availability date for AW7, just "later this fall", and if volume production still isn't sorted by then there are still options such as initial availability only in certain countries in order to ration limited supply. So really that 3 months could easily by 12 months or even a couple of years or longer.
Don’t get me wrong, smartphone cameras are vastly improving and I love the capabilities of my 11ProMax and might get the 13, but, I also have a full frame DSLR and you just cannot get the sensor size nor the equivalent of a 400mm lens into a smartphone, period, physics won’t play nor do optics…
I am looking forward to the periscope development…
I don't see a change in design any time soon. The device is designed to "fade away", the most we will see are smaller bezels and a smaller notch.
To what though? I don’t see a need for phones to change their physical appearance but every couple of years
Innovation at apple is slow? They just blasted Intel and AMD out of the water with CPU efficiencies and capabilities, have the highest quality laptops, started a TV network, have built their own cloud storage, created their own OS that has integrated multiple OS's across multiple products basically into one, made a cell phone on your wrist that can measure your heart and vitals, and are building a freaking car.... what's your idea of fast innovation?
You can't pick and chose across multiple companies. Name a single company doing anything like apple? Just because Samsung put a 10x lens in a camera with more MP or Huawei had a full screen without a notch doesn't cut it. They build a very solid product and the people complaining about the product are missing the fact that the phone is only 1/3rd of it (at least for me). There's the phone, the integration with my other products, and there's the services. I started out using Android and hated iPhones back in the HTC one days. But there's no phone you could put in my hand that has the quality, innovation, and ability of the iPhone. Everyone else is just playing catchup and slapping a few gimmicks on it to try and makeup for the mountain of shortfalls. I keep wanting to go back to android and each time I try it just underwhelms and I'm back. The problem with apple is they've done things so well we take it all for granted, like the Messages app, that until you live without it for a week or two you don't really notice it.
I must say after a few days of using the new iPhone 13 Pro's camera, it delivers amazingly stunning results. If you are really into making images with your iPhone, this is a worthy upgrade, even if you do it a year early based on your current plan assuming you did not buy your current model outright or are running an older version.
So they thought about the current ENORMOUS camera for three years and thought it was OK?
P.S. Cinematic Mode is such an over-hyped pile of crap.
P.S. Cinematic Mode is such an over-hyped pile of crap.
I would have had a similar reaction before I read that article. I should have bookmarked it but didn’t.
This is odd.
They had to make different cases for 12 and 13 across the industry. if they knew the cam will be bigger earlier couldn't they be more sustainable in the design?
They had to make different cases for 12 and 13 across the industry. if they knew the cam will be bigger earlier couldn't they be more sustainable in the design?
maybe a pyramid?
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Hi! Did you get confused by the apostrophe or because they used an indefinite article? The subject is an iPhone, not its cameras. That sentence translated literally would make no sense in my language so I suspect you had the same train of thought. It would have to be restructured to something like "The cameras on a future iPhone..."