It's working on all HEIF photos. As intended. It's not available in JPEG and ProRAW.
So what if it is money grabbing? The purpose of a corporation is to make as much money as it can.
Right. I didn't make a simple claim that people shouldn't voice their opinion. But nice try.
Lol, wut? This isn't a hardware decision, it's a software decision. The lovely people over at Apple have purposely stopped users accessing a software feature based on a generational hardware designation. Apparently a Pro user/buyer from 2023 right up to September 2024 is of no interest to them now the new phone is out. That's a disgusting business practice.
Tim’s Apple is the epitome of greed! You are very correct, and there’s no reason this couldn’t have applied to any photo you even bring into iOS; even if you took it with your Android!
Not sure why it matters if it is a hardware or software decision.
You are exactly right. Glad to see I am not the only intelligent person here.
Yes!!!!! I've always wanted to be part of something bigger than myself!!
The latter kind of makes sense. ProRAW is designed to give the most possible editing latitude at the expense of the image looking Apple-fied out of the box (whether you like Apple's processing or dislike it). The new Photographic Styles are kind of an in-between of a straight up HEIF and ProRAW, it allows for some expanded editing latitude but not to the degree ProRAW does.
Can't get blood from a stone. Sooner or later customers wake up. iPhone 16 sales not doing well according to analysts. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/30/tech/iphone-16-presales-apple-intelligence
And that happens, Apple will adjust, get smaller or go out of business.
The Verge doesn't say one way or another that it's just software, just that it's due to a reshuffled computational photography pipeline. Apple's computational photography system utilizes a number of components of the SoC, including the image signal processor. It's not purely software. The ISP does a significant amount of the work assembling the image output which is then manipulated by the Neural Engine and other components. Since the pipeline had to be reshuffled to implement Photographic Styles it is entirely possible it required changes to the ISP and how it outputs the image for that reshuffle to occur, and that older ISPs might not be compatible.
So? You got everything that was promised on your old phone when you bought it. They never guarantee you get new features. You paid for what you got, not for what may be added later.
Exactly.
