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Kuo: iPhone 13 Now More Likely to Get Upgraded Ultra Wide Camera With Improved Low-Light Performance
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I just want the next iPhone “Pro” Max to support the Apple Pencil.
It would be nice if the notch went away. I thought I'd get used to it on my XS but I can't. I want it to die.
notch will be here until at least 2022-2023. even if the notch is shorter this year it's still there and will be until under display camera is ready. Clearly 95% of people could care less about the notch though
I upgraded from an iPhone X to a 12 Pro mostly because of the camera improvements. For example, low light performance is much better. Admittedly, I'm an avid photographer and notice such things, but I think even casual users would appreciate being able to capture decent shots when lighting is poor, since that's usually beyond their control. I don't expect the year-over-year camera changes to be worth another upgrade, though, unless they're accompanied by some other considerable improvements.
Yeah I would agree. I prefer the design of the 12 Pro vs my 11 Pro, but don’t care for the shinier sides, and honestly, for me in my location with limited access to 5G, the 12 Pro doesn’t offer anything compelling over an 11 Pro. The cameras are marginally better at best. The big news for the 12 series was the flat edge design and 5G.
You don’t know what’s a match for 99% of Apple’s customers. You’re pulling that ridiculous number out of your nose. If we had this discussion five years ago, you would probably have said the same thing.
Timmy? You know him personally since you were kids? You really don’t understand Apple at all.
Feel free to enlighten me, it's not that I've been a loyal user of their products since the late 90s.
Your post: "I don’t get it. Apple has a huge number of photo related patents. That includes a large number from its own R&D, as well as I believe, at least 2,000 it bought from Kodak a few years ago. yet, it just buys these things from off the shelf manufacturers. It should come out with much better cameras itself, even if they do cost a bit more. What‘s all that money for that they have? From the vast amount they throw in the trash from those worthless stock buybacks, they could take a measly $200 million, and develop something spectacular."
What's really funny is your assessment, based on nothing but pure speculation, that the patents Apple holds make a good business case (in both performance and cost) rolling their own, especially with respect to the CMOS sensor, than using an available camera module (say from Sony) with patented technology that is more recent than Kodak's that is pretty much obsolete. Kodak's sensor tech goes back decades, with Kodak going bankrupt in 2012, and on life support many years before that. Sony dominates the phone camera module market. And...especially the sensor business, which is most critical. Guess who makes the highest performing sensors in the professional camera markets?
Anyway... I'd love to debate this further as it's a subject that's dear to me. By any chance would you happen to be an electrical/hardware engineer and photographer? If so I think we'd likely have a better technical discussion.
