That is the point, Apple is predominately offering camera improvement as headline feature, so that is what you are consuming, small camera improvements. If it wasn't for the camera, the whole iPhone keynote presentation could not extend beyond 5 minutes to show how fast the new A processor is, and a few new tricks of software level.
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Case Allegedly Designed for Upcoming iPhone 13 Pro Shows Significantly Larger Camera Module
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Of course, if Apple were to cut a deal to work with anyone now, the ones that didn’t win the contract would sue to force Apple to work with them anyway. What odd days these are that what I’ve typed isn’t utter nonsense
Actually, I’ll say it. iPhone is the camera I always have with me. I want them to do whatever physics and math allows them to do to improve that camera each and every year, so that the day will come when I don’t have to regret not having my DSLR handy when my kid does something worthy of a photograph.
Oh wow. Seeing how big the camera modules are here, make me want to keep my 12 Pro Max longer than 2 years. I hope that’s not the final product.
I said it.
I want to stop carrying around my RX100. Despite it being several years old, it still takes better photos than my 12 Pro Max.
I just gave my wife the iPhone 12 Pro and am using the iPhone 7 until the 13 comes out. If the battery and cameras don’t improve much I’ll just get a 12 mini.
I'm not too thrilled by the LACK of Mega Pixels ............... Not even a LEICA lens or at Least a Zeiss Lens. I expect more for the Price $$$$$$ We Pay
More megapixels is pointless unless the sensor gets bigger. More megapixels in the same sensor size makes for a worse image.
I have a 20Mpx semi-professional DSLR and I'm hardly ever limited by the resolution (only if I shoot in studio conditions). I can't imagine how the iPhone could benefit from such a resolution. The increase in the number of pixels would result in less area available to capture light (the photodetectors used for each pixel are surrounded by other circuitry, which means that if you fit more detectors in the same space, you need to reduce the area that actually captures light), which in turn would result in higher signal to noise ratio.
For a phone, where you shoot in less-than-ideal lighting conditions almost all the time, the balance between pixel count and pixel size should be skewed towards bigger pixels. The extra pixels are no use if they're only sampling noise.