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

iPhone camera quality is good. Here’s hoping for even better quality camera for the future iPhones.
 
Jakewilk said:
I’d love to hear you ideas for unique designs
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No notch, under-display touch ID (or at least on the button, which Apple already has), maybe a folding option, (I understand the tech is too young for Apple - but this is what I appreciate about innovative competitors)... that's basically it. Just get rid of the notch! I think the iPhone 12/13 design is superb I just don't like how they hold features back and string people along for years. That's why iPhone is just now getting 120Hz and is still stuck with a notch. I'm low-key super impressed with the 13 mini though.
 
Why does the planning take so long for cameras when they are able to make a new watch last minute?! /s
 
LonestarOne said:
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.
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Yes, that sounds realistic. I'd like to add one thing: after figuring out, what could be possibly done regarding new functions, gadgets and so on, they spread these functions over the next generations. So the "new" iPhone is in reality not only a x-year old design, they withheld features in purpose to make the next generations still attractive and to increase sales. I consider the last changes marginal. The distinction runs all over camera-specs and so called wonderful photos. Sure, the screen got sharper, the CPU faster. But be honest: have you all here in that forum changed your smartphone-using habit in the same way the specs improved? Would my old iPhone 6s still do 90% of the daily jobs for you? I'm curious about your answers! I guess iPhones upgrades are for the most of us more a self-gratification than a real improvement to make your life easier that would justify the high prices. Apple's marketing hit us!
 
ignatius345 said:
I 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.
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I really don't think of folding as a gimmick. All I have seen and tried about the fold (and even more so from the Flip) is that it is useful, good protection on the vital parts and really the next step before the phone become biomechanically integrated through glasses, earbuds, a watch, or something else. But hey, each to his own!
 
5232152 said:
I really don't think of folding as a gimmick. All I have seen and tried about the fold (and even more so from the Flip) is that it is useful, good protection on the vital parts and really the next step before the phone become biomechanically integrated through glasses, earbuds, a watch, or something else. But hey, each to his own!
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Apple already sells a watch that has a phone in it. You do know that, don’t you?
 
If you’re going to whine about “design”, tell me why no manufacturer makes a decent case with a clip on it, so I can carry my phone on my belt, the way God and Captain Kirk intended.
 
5232152 said:
I really don't think of folding as a gimmick. All I have seen and tried about the fold (and even more so from the Flip) is that it is useful, good protection on the vital parts
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Fair point. I think it has to be done really well though or it becomes unreliable or just plain cumbersome. As many times as I'm fishing my iPhone out of my pocket every day, I could see where unfolding it would get old fast.
 
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