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Apple Starts Planning a Future iPhone's Cameras Around Three Years in Advance

Always interesting reading about product developments. And yes, these things don't happen overnight, unlike what the leakers and youtubers are making it seem.

Thins about this always reminded me of Apple's "just in case" scenario in preparing for the intel and Apple Silicon transition.
 
Salvor Hardin said:
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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A crutch? That's funny. No, they use on-going camera tech advancements as features knowing they're important to many people. That's certainly true for me. I like making photos with my phone and do so all the time.

Perhaps you're looking for something more meaningful like stereo telephony? Or maybe extending the display around around the sides and top/bottom of the phone?

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justperry said:
You might check the title, doesn't sound right to me.(At all)
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justperry said:
a Future iPhone's cameras.
....Really.


Note: I am non-native.
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Like others have pointed out, the article, 'a' refers to the 'Future iPhone' (in this case, a 'Future iPhone' is the subject and is singular.) and not cameras. Also, because 'a' refers to 'Future iPhone' and not just 'iPhone', 'a' is the correct article vs 'an'.

So the title is grammatically correct. The below variations are also correct as is the original title.

1. a Future iPhone's Cameras (Singular Future iPhone)
2. an iPhone's Cameras (Singluar iPhone)
3. Cameras on future iPhones (Plural iPhone)
4. Cameras on a future iPhone (Singluar iphone - This is the best alternative to the original title which helps understand that both are grammatically correct)
5. Future iPhones' Cameras (when the subject word is already a plural, you can lose the 'apostrophe-S' and just leave the single apostrophe/quotation)

iPhones - plural s
iPhone's - the apostrophe s refers to the meaning of 'belongs to' but is still singular
iPhones' - Subject is plural and the apostrophe refers to 'belongs to'

Hope that helps.

Note: I am a non-native English speaker too.
 
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LonestarOne said:
There are only so many shapes that are practical for a phone. Apple could produce a phone shaped like a dodecahedron, but very few people would buy it because it wouldn’t fit into their pockets.
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Obviously. I don’t think there is a better chasis for a modern smartphone than the iPhone 5 (including the lack of a bump). iPhone 12 & 13 aren’t new but a return to a superior design.
 
MacRumors said:


Townsend revealed that Apple starts planning future iPhone camera systems about three years in advance of public availability...
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And in other news, water is wet.

Smartphone manufacturers start planning for a phone three years ahead of the expected release. That includes the camera and all other parts. It really isn't earth shattering news.
 
dannyyankou said:
When a word has an apostrophe and s, it's a possessive for a singular noun
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4jasontv said:
Educate me. This reads fine to me, but what’s the issue that bothered you?
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willchris said:
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..."
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LonestarOne said:
A future iPhone (singular) has multiple cameras (plural).
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chucker23n1 said:
It's fine?

I guess "future iPhones' cameras" would also work. But so does this.
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nikhilnagaraj24 said:
Like others have pointed out, the article, 'a' refers to the 'Future iPhone' (in this case, a 'Future iPhone' is the subject and is singular.) and not cameras. Also, because 'a' refers to 'Future iPhone' and not just 'iPhone', 'a' is the correct article vs 'an'.

So the title is grammatically correct. The below variations are also correct as is the original title.

1. a Future iPhone's Cameras (Singular Future iPhone)
2. an iPhone's Cameras (Singluar iPhone)
3. Cameras on future iPhones (Plural iPhone)
4. Cameras on a future iPhone (Singluar iphone - This is the best alternative to the original title which helps understand that both are grammatically correct)
5. Future iPhones' Cameras (when the subject word is already a plural, you can lose the 'apostrophe-S' and just leave the single apostrophe/quotation)

iPhones - plural s
iPhone's - the apostrophe s refers to the meaning of 'belongs to' but is still singular
iPhones' - Subject is plural and the apostrophe refers to 'belongs to'

Hope that helps.

Note: I am a non-native English speaker too.
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To me it sounds awful, really, it might be grammatically correct but it sounds really weird, I would not have chosen to put an article up with a title like this.

Just my 2 cents.
 
satchmo said:
No, but maybe you can point me to where you got that info.

BTW, Pixel 5 sold 7mil to iPhone 12's 200m. It's a bit easier to change yearly when you don't have to source parts and scale as much.
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Wot ?
200 meleones iphone 12?.. not shure what are you smoking, one in 30 people on earth dont have a iphone let alone a iphone 12
 
It probably "starts" 3 years in advance but the camera system is likely tweaked and changed up to the few months before production. I don't see Apple thinking 3 years ago let's design a macro feature.
 
anthogag said:
It probably "starts" 3 years in advance but the camera system is likely tweaked and changed up to the few months before production. I don't see Apple thinking 3 years ago let's design a macro feature.
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Features come first. You start with a functional spec, which defines what the product needs to do. Then, you produce a design spec, which defines how you‘re going to implement those functions. Then, you implement the design. Iterating the specs along the way as you find things that didn’t work out or discover new opportunities.
 
arian71 said:
Wot ?
200 meleones iphone 12?.. not shure what are you smoking, one in 30 people on earth dont have a iphone let alone a iphone 12
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Apple sells about 200 million iPhones a year. There are over 1 billion iPhones in active use. So about one in eight people on earth have an iPhone.
 
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SFjohn said:
I suspect we will see computational photography being added to DSLRs over the long run, to extend what amazing abilities they already embody.
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that is an interesting question, because even the newest (mirrorless) like eg the Canon EOS R3 do not really have any computational capabilities, unless you call creating a .jpg computational, which it is ...
Traditionally, professionals and a lot of amateurs actually take photos in RAW format, and then post process in tools like Lightroom and/or Photoshop (there are plenty others), those folks will not be interested in in-camera computations as all of that can be done on the computer anyway.
Not saying we won't see it, but to the best of my knowledge the camera manufacturers have not embraced it yet and it's not available in a single model (yet).
 
jz0309 said:
that is an interesting question, because even the newest (mirrorless) like eg the Canon EOS R3 do not really have any computational capabilities, unless you call creating a .jpg computational, which it is ...
Traditionally, professionals and a lot of amateurs actually take photos in RAW format, and then post process in tools like Lightroom and/or Photoshop (there are plenty others), those folks will not be interested in in-camera computations as all of that can be done on the computer anyway.
Not saying we won't see it, but to the best of my knowledge the camera manufacturers have not embraced it yet and it's not available in a single model (yet).
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Apple’s ProRAW approaches this more smartly: it lets photographers manually tweak stuff as much as they like, but also lets them opt into portions “what would Apple’s pipeline have done?”. iPhone 13’s photographic styles build on that as presets.

If camera manufacturers were smarter, this is where they’d go.
 
Jakewilk said:
We got an entirely new design last generation… What are you waiting for? A circular display?
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If you think the iPhone 12 design was entirely new vs the 11, then Apple's slick marketing is working great. They squared off the edges...
 
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