iPhone 16 Pro Rumored to Feature 48MP Ultra Wide Camera

[H.E. Pennypacker]

So, you want them to stop improving the cameras?

Did you read my post? I didn’t say they needed to stop improving the cameras bro. I said I’d like to see some new innovations and less time spent on an already pretty good camera for the daily driver.

 

[hagjohn]

Did you read my post? I didn’t say they needed to stop improving the cameras bro. I said I’d like to see some new innovations and less time spent on an already pretty good camera for the daily driver.

You do know there is more than 1 R&D person at Apple, right?

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

You do know there is more than 1 R&D person at Apple, right?

No really? Shocking! Do you think he/she will think about something besides the cameras for the iPhone 17?

 

[Surf Monkey]

aptX

Yeah, it’s really frustrating when a Chinese DAP is better at Bluetooth, file compatibility, playback quality and EQ availability than Apple’s iPhone when Apple touts how great a music player it is. News flash: iPhone is a horrible music player. It’s a serviceable transport but beyond that it’s way behind the curve.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Did you read my post? I didn’t say they needed to stop improving the cameras bro. I said I’d like to see some new innovations and less time spent on an already pretty good camera for the daily driver.

Agree. There’s been a camera Cold War going on with phone manufacturers for a while now. It’s just a continuation of the same thing that happened with point and shoot cameras. It’s all basically a pointless exercise in marketing. Apple chasing megapixels says it all. Megapixels couldn’t be more irrelevant at this point. What they should be developing is better optics, which they are s l o w l y doing. Their focus on software image processing is questionable as well. You can’t make a crap image into a good one with AI. What you get is drastically over processed, over sharpened, over saturated garbage.

Apple could take a lesson from Nikon. Don’t change what works for the sake of change. Only alter features when you can show a real world, compelling reason to do so. But that don’t sell iPhones, so…

 

[svish]

Higher quality photos combined with better low light photos is a win. Always nice to get camera improvements

 

[RandomTox]

nothing new. only cameras get better year after year.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Did you read my post? I didn’t say they needed to stop improving the cameras bro. I said I’d like to see some new innovations and less time spent on an already pretty good camera for the daily driver.

Not much to add anymore. It was easy to add crazy new stuff every year when smart phones were a new thing. Not so much anymore.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Not much to add anymore. It was easy to add crazy new stuff every year when smart phones were a new thing. Not so much anymore.

Yes and no. The narrative is that smart phones are beyond significant innovation but is it really true? Or is it simply that the industry itself has become conservative in their effort to maintain mountainous profits and not spook investors?