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Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos
Sockatume writes: If you've been browsing Apple's site leading up to the iPhone 6 launch, you might've noticed something a little odd. Apple has edited the handset's protruding camera out of every single side-on view of the phone. (The camera is, necessarily, retained for images showing the back of the device.) The absence is particularly conspicuous given the number of side views Apple uses to emphasize the device's thinness.
You always see the button side of the phone. The camera is on the opposite side. 1mm is likely to be obscured simply by the positioning in the photo.
If they cared so much about it to doctor the photos in a completely obvious way, why wouldn't they just make the case 1mm thicker instead of risking the lawsuits?
This whole article is troll bait.
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"Is that a camera protruding from your back or are you happy to see me?"
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Soon the Apple fans will come and show us all how some physics theory about light absorption when you point something at camera from the right angle will make the light bend just so slightly and cause an illusion that makes the phone appear to have no camera pointing out.
it's never a good idea to be photographed with an extra bulge. just ask Anthony wiener
We are the new iPhone into the fantastic super Americans where the women are attracted to our tight streamlined forms that accentuates our (camera) bulges.
Meh, most people will put a big, thick case on it and it won't even matter.
You're thinking of perspective - and you'd need a very odd angle and wide angle lens to hide it. Here's a more realistic side shot which is already fairly up close and wide angle:
http://cdn1.mos.techradar.futu...
I don't think most people are particularly going to care (unless the protrusion is likely to make the phone wobble when set down somewhere), but it's slightly humorous to see Apple editing it away / leaving that ring off for product shots / conveniently leaving it out of product renders.
( Or, if you're still convinced that they didn't edit it away, they at least went to the trouble of trying to hide it without making it seem like they're trying to hide it. )
I don't know how their design people allowed a protruding lens in the first place. It really runs contrary to Apple's design sensibility, but I guess we're seeing the first evidence of what happens to Apple without Jobs. The protrusion is ugly, and it mars the flat, smooth design.
And for what? Assuming that they can't make the camera any thinner, make the phone slightly fatter, and make use of the extra space. It's not as though the iPhone 5 was obscenely thick and needed to be made thinner. Hell, just fill the rest of the thing out with additional battery, and give us more battery life.
You're looking at it wrong!
Apple could literal curve their logo into a dried turd and people climb all over each other to buy it.
...that they are holding it wrong?
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This blatant image distortion by the cwhoreporate media gives young apples an unrealistic body image. We can stamp out this misfructopy in our generation! Sign the petition!
Fuck you Apple and iDiot phones you prooduce
You mean like that new HTC phone with the CURVED BACK?!?
Photos are taken from a wrong angle due to someone holding the phone wrong.
After all... It's the word of Steve. A known benefactor of humanity, through past and future incarnations as an Earth Sprite.
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You know who likes that new HTC phone? The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
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If they are photoshopping the Iphone image to make it look like there is no bulge when in fact there is one that seems like a deceptive trade practice to me.
What is that, the thickness of 2 business cards?
Does it have a watermark?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
They're trying to hold onto all those little details that Jobs insisted on through the design and marketing of his babies. Without his vision, they're just a headless giant wandering around, trying to piece together their origins, refusing to progress into territory that seems in any way distant from the shadows cast by the deeper artistic vision that cannot be conveyed or captured. Expect lots of this sort of thing.
-ubuntu others as you would have others ubuntu you.
In before "cameragate".
Here's a more realistic side shot which is already fairly up close and wide angle:
That photo is taken from below the phone. You don't only see the blurred camera, you see the blurred back of the case. So it does nothing to show that a real edge on perspective photo can't hide the camera bulge. The fact is that it MUST be able to, because it the camera bulge is showing you can just move closer to the phone.
There is no photo editing needed. This story is a conspiracy theory, nothing more.
Apple could face big penalties for this, especially in Australia. It would count as advantage by deception.
My guess is the apple lawyers would argue the side views are of a cross section....
Apple is really going downhill, not just to have it protrude in the first place, but to realise it is any issue later and try to edit it out so clumsily after everyone has already seen it.
Time for Tim cook to apologise, again.
Yes, the "bulge" is clearly photoshopped out. I can only suspect the reason is that they want to show that the rest of the phone...the 95+% of the surface area is the stated thickness. During the keynote, the "bulge" was discussed. They could have shown the whole side view and position arrows or other marks to indicate the thickness. But, frankly, that would have been ugly, wouldn't it? Certainly, not Apple's way.
Now, iPhone / Apple fans aren't going to care that Apple marketers took this liberty with the images - they are going to buy it regardless.
Only those who want to find fault with Apple, for whatever reason, give a rat's ass that Apple might engage as something so underhanded as to photoshop out the "bulge" to clarify their marketing point.
What IS more interesting is how much attention Android fans are giving to something which they claim no interest in owning.
Now, I will digress.
Nobody (except true Fanbois) on the Apple side argues that Android phones might have had some features that found their way into Samsung and other Android phones first (i.e NFC, Google Wallet, etc). But, it took a company, like Apple, with the marketing clout and financial resources to get buy-in for actually using those features (such as NFC through Apple Pay). Apple only introduces features into their products for which they believe there to be a market or to remain relevant in a market. And, if a market doesn't yet exist, they know how to create it and they make it appear easy to use - as only Apple can.
The addition of NFC, for example, was probably done because they could now make it useful (vs "bumping" phones to transfer video..big whoop) by tackling mobile payments. Apple Pay addresses the process by never sharing credit card data, having unique, one-time, transaction number, and the ability to use a fingerprint to authenticate in a fraction of second. Well, those are the claims, anyway. They managed to get the major banks and store brands to jump on the bandwagon. And, in doing so, it appears Apple may have succeeded where Google and Samsung could not even with their more "technologically" advanced hardware and software solutions. Usability is the key to public acceptance - not technology. And, they seized upon the opportunity posed by "hackers" breaking in and stealing credit card data from major outlets to gain appeal for their solution.
Now, what remains to be seen is whether Apple allows others to play in the Apple Pay sandbox or not. If they don't, they might successfully corner the phone market for the average person with Apple Pay and an iPhone 6C provided the POS vendors elect not to integrate other mobile payment schemes into their terminals.
I realize that this is slashdot and all that shit, and it is a requirement for members here to hate Apple.
I see posts here talking about holding their iPhone 6 and it shows the bulge... interesting, where di you get YOUR iPhone 6???
I see a lot of posting that it is obvious that Apple edited the photos - but the only link is not to an Apple site, but a hater site.
I went to Apples site and looked around - there were no side views to be seen - hmm.
So, it's typical Slashdot bullshit - pile on the hate, with nothing to support the theory.
If the biggest concern is a picture in marketing materials has been altered, people are grasping at straws for drama. After all no one in marketing alters pictures of actors, actresses, models, cars, motorcycles, musical instruments, etc etc etc (your sarcasm alarms should be going off now).
Tomorrow, Apple will be posting a tool to put back the camera in the images of your browser cache.
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I'm sure it's a huge cover up, that's why there's a picture on http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/ that blatenly shows that yes the camera does slightly protrude. Who gives a fuck?
APK showed you don't on hosts 8x and on harmonic filters here http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
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It's not just in your pants!
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Yeah, it's just odd that they decided to obsess over the thinness and sacrifice design and battery life. That camera is going to get scratched if it's sticking out like that.
Actually maybe it is by design, maybe the protruding lens is designed to space the phone of a flat surface so you can pick it up easier...because it's so thin.
Apple designers obviously not keen on curvy women, they like em nice and anorexic.
Maybe they should have tried hiding it behind a pencil.
Does anyone know of any iPhone 5/5S users who complained that their phone was too thick?
I see no reason why Apple felt it necessary to slim the device down even more - when they could have just had the same thickness as the 5/5S resulting in no silly bulge for the camera.
Plus, they could have put a bigger battery in the case and maybe get an hour or so extra time out of the thing. Which I can imagine would be a lot more useful than shaving a couple mm off an already perfectly slim enough phone.
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What you call "claryfying their marketing point" I call false advertisement. As your second point about Android people, first that's not true (I for one is an Apple customer on other products), and second, if you let a bad apple (haha) in the basket, you know what happens. If Apple can play false advertisement without retorsion, other companies will follow to remain relevant, and before we know it, all advertisements will be smoke and mirrors and full of lies, including those for non-Apple devices, and it would have started by letting one company get away with it. Wether you care about buying the device or not is irrelevant about the legitimacy of pointing that the ad is fake, as this is relevant for the health of the whole industry.
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I went to Apples site and looked around - there were no side views to be seen - hmm.
http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/design/
I don't have an opinion on the protruding lens, but enough with the typical Slashdot attitude. Jeez.
On the smaller phone (iPhone 6) the lens is 50mm from the far (button) edge of the phone and protrudes 0.8mm. The phone is 7mm thick.
Thus there is a triangle formed on the top of the phone which is 0.8mm tall and 50mm base. Now, if you make the triangle 7.8mm tall you form a triangle with the front plane of the phone, a triangle with a base (7.8/0.8)*50 of 487mm.
So if you take the picture from less than 487mm away (half a meter) you can take a picture which doesn't show the camera and doesn't show the face of the phone (thus is "edge on") without using any photoshop trickery. The phone body will simply block the camera from view.
And that's surely what Apple did. It's not hard to do.
Also note: you don't have one, troll. It doesn't come out for a couple more days.
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I see two VERY big shots of the camera. I doubt very much they are trying to hide it in other pictures.
have curves.
In my day, we called them codpieces.
Now get off my lawn, peasant!
Have gnu, will travel.
Steve Jobs would never have allowed the bulge. He micro-manged everything down to, literally, the millimeter. He would not like the way it looks, feels in your hand, and has no tactile usefulness. Although, perhaps it could be argued that it would help people not cover the lens with their finger.
:/
A group of us asked a waiter who was about 60 years old to take a picture of us the other day with my iPhone. He struggled with it for minutes and kept putting his finger over the lens. I tried to help him but finally gave up. Got some great pics of his finger though
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
99% of iPhone users buy a case for their thin devices.
I've been away for a while. I'll be honest...I left. I needed a break after /. started going down-hill. I picked a heck of a time to come back. This is neither "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters". This is a pathetic ad placement that is obviously a revenue generator for /.'s parent company. In going back over a great many historical articles, I see nothing better. I'm done. I wish /. provided a means to delete an account so I could disassociate completely.
You people do realize that by the time you put the phone in a case, there will be no camera bulge? The thin-ness of the phone (minus the camera protrusion) means this thing won't be a beast once you put a case on it. Bravo, Apple!
She saw Russia from her back garden which, given the location of her garden and the curvature of the Earth is unbelievably amazing!
Hello Hymie,
If a statement is clearly unbelievable, and the utterer should have realized it is clearly unbelievable, then examine the possibility that this statement is of a class of statements itself an element of the set of statement classes not meant to be taken literally.
In this case the statement is an instance of the class of figurative statements.
For example: Humans will often describe some location a few miles away as being "a stone's throw" away even though, unlike you, they cannot physically throw a stone a few miles. In the present case Ms Palin's statement conveys to humans (at least to humans who do not make every effort deliberately to misunderstand) that Alaskan residents are in closer physical proximity to the borders of Russia than is the mean proximity for American residents in general.
Ok then, try this image where the camera is clearly visible from a straight on side shot.
http://images.anandtech.com/do...
The excuses and outright lies that you Apple shills come up with are absolutely hilarious.
I realize this is slashdot and all that shit, and that it is a requirement for members here to make unqualified blanket generalising comments.
I see some posts here talking about holding their non-Apple phones with a camera bulge and it shows or doesn't show the bulge, and I see one post that talks about seeing the bulge in his iPhone 6, and where he also explains why he has an iphone 6 (http://beta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5713131&cid=47921957). There are probably more posts either way, but I couldn't be bothered to look for more.
I went to Apple's site and saw the side view photo on the page about iPhone 6 (it's the 5th photo). And here is a linked to that image, clearly hosted on Apple.com (https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/overview/images/design_details_right_large.jpg). Although it looks like it may be a render, rather than an actual photo.
So, it's the typical Slashdot bullshit - pile on the pseudo-skepticism, and doesn't bother to make any decent effort for fact checking.
Claiming that it's typical for Slashdot to hate Apple is a very standard straw man argument that was probably designed to 1) represent yourself as the voice-of-reason amongst the biased haters, 2) represent yourself as the plucky underdog, fighting against the uneducated masses, 3) rally together the Apple lovers, fighting for a common cause. Either way, it doesn't pan out. There are a lot of commentors on slashdot, plenty of them like Apple just fine, and plenty hate Apple like the plague, and even more just don't give a shit one way or the other. So please just drop that bullshit, I've seen this argument too often both for and against Apple.
You should be ashamed, given that you have such a low UID.
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Gee-Noo is pretty bad, but I've heard worse:
-Lunix
-MySqueal
-System VI (talking about the text editor)
-Batch script (instead of Bash script)
I often hear Genome also but that one I like, I think that's how everyone should say it. Gnome sounds like someone sneezing.
lucm, indeed.
If your idea of MacOSX is "Unix done really well", then we do live in different realities.
Distortion field mucho?
Apple is all about manipulation in marketing. They are not the first of course but they do it the best. Making you want something is in every goal of a product company.
The more you can inspire that impulse buyer the more dollar signs you will see. Because all sense of value, practical use and price goes out the window.
"No you didn't, because we didn't use harmonic filters 'back then.' We used a cosine shaping filter 'back then' on analog cable modems. Ya, I used to work for Stream as a Time Warner technician, you nitwit. Still wrong, as always!" - by Khyber (864651) on Monday September 15, 2014 @10:47AM (#47908815) Homepage
Oh, really? Better read how DOCSIS works along with the fact cosine shaping filters ARE what I said they are, below (harmonic filters), stupid:
"Now about that root raised cosine shaping filterÃfæ The purpose of that filter is to minimize the RF harmonic energy produced by the cable modem so that it does not produce interference with adjacent devices. The way it does this is by acting as a low pass filter by removing all of the high frequency components of what would normally be a very Ãfoesquare waveÃf looking signal."
From http://volpefirm.com/docsis101...
LMAO!
* WoW - you have TRULY PROVEN YOURSELF to be a mere "by rote" dumbass who doesn't even *UNDERSTAND* the principles behind tools he merely "uses" to work with, allegedly... pitiful.
Lastly - DOWNMODDING THIS days later, EVERY TIME I POSTED THIS PROOF, proving you utterly full of shit here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... and here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... ISN'T PROVING YOU RIGHT EITHER - it shows YOU are a TOTAL loser!
APK
P.S.=> LOL - Now, top that off with the FACT I utterly ANNIHILATED YOU on hosts this week too, 8 times -> http://mobile.slashdot.org/com... & you couldn't even BEGIN to validly technically disprove my points on them too? Man - lol, YOU FAILED - hugely... apk
"No you didn't, because we didn't use harmonic filters 'back then.' We used a cosine shaping filter 'back then' on analog cable modems. Ya, I used to work for Stream as a Time Warner technician, you nitwit. Still wrong, as always!" - by Khyber (864651) on Monday September 15, 2014 @10:47AM (#47908815) Homepage
Oh, really? Better read how DOCSIS works along with the fact cosine shaping filters ARE what I said they are, below (harmonic filters), stupid:
"Now about that root raised cosine shaping filterÃfæ The purpose of that filter is to minimize the RF harmonic energy produced by the cable modem so that it does not produce interference with adjacent devices. The way it does this is by acting as a low pass filter by removing all of the high frequency components of what would normally be a very Ãfoesquare waveÃf looking signal."
From http://volpefirm.com/docsis101...
LMAO!
* WoW - you have TRULY PROVEN YOURSELF to be a mere "by rote" dumbass who doesn't even *UNDERSTAND* the principles behind tools he merely "uses" to work with, allegedly... pitiful.
Lastly - DOWNMODDING THIS days later, EVERY TIME I POSTED THIS PROOF, proving you utterly full of shit here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... and here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... ISN'T PROVING YOU RIGHT EITHER - it shows YOU are a TOTAL loser!
APK
P.S.=> LOL - Now, top that off with the FACT I utterly ANNIHILATED YOU on hosts this week too, 8 times -> http://mobile.slashdot.org/com... & you couldn't even BEGIN to validly technically disprove my points on them too? Man - lol, YOU FAIL - hugely... apk
So much for all the Apple 'beautiful design' bullshit.
That's from the opposite side of the phone where the camera is closer to the edge where the persecutive won't hide it as much.
Apples images show the exact same thing.
Apk did post backing links. He proved you wrong with this link http://volpefirm.com/docsis101... showing cosine filters are harmonic filters as he said. You said they weren't. They are. You fail.
Quoted in black & white here http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
LMAO - You FAIL... lol!
APK
P.S.=>
"By the way, I know your address. Expect a few 'well-being' check ups, if not a visit from myself, personally" - by Khyber (864651) on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @11:03AM (#47927097) Homepage
Making threats now? Ok - tell you what: SHOW UP HERE TO MY FACE - lol, try it!
(Trust me on THIS: I will fucking END you, You little pisspot bullshit artist).
I hope you do - I am truly the LAST person you want to fuck with (that's assuming you can even SURVIVE the area I live in first to get to me))... apk
Apk literally quoted you fucking up on hosts and harmonic cosine filters here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... and apk backed himself up with valid DOCSIS documentation against your crap and you ran. We're not blinded by delusional thinking like you are. Are you blind or just deluded?
That's not news, that's just par for the course.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Excuses, excuses. If a picture is taken directly edge on, then there is no way the camera can be hidden from view, regardless of which side it's on.
A curved back makes complete sense in a phone because it's easier to hold and less likely for you to drop it. That's why almost every single mobile phone ever made up to Android/iPhone had them.
A curved back makes complete sense in a phone because it's easier to hold and less likely for you to drop it. That's why almost every single mobile phone ever made up to Android/iPhone had them.
You may like them, but the feeling is far from universal.
In the real world it can. It's called perspective. It's why things faraway look very small. I happens because everything we or a camera sees comes in from an angle. You cannot see something at the far edge cause the near edge is in the way. This is just simple geometry. But you are clearly too stupid to understand that or the fact that if apple was trying to photoshop out the lense from the profile images, they wouldn't leave it in a different profile image.
Back in September 2011, Macworld UK reported that the "iPhone_4_is_the_world's_thinnest_phone,_not_the_Samsung_Galaxy_S_II".
That was because Apple obtained an adjudication_from_the_UK's_Advertising_Standards_Authority that Samsung cannot claim their Galaxy S II (thickness 8.71mm) to be the "slimmest smartphone in the world" and that the iPhone 4 (thickness 9.3mm) should have that exclusive honor as the Galaxy S II has a bulge at the camera that reaches 9.91mm !!!
So, the iPhone 4 Remained_The_Thinnest_Phone_In_The_World and kept being lauded for it..
You're not going to let such a great record be marred by a tiny protrusion now, are you? You're just looking at it wrong..
iPhones are best!.. Just ask Apple!
Your holding and looking at it wrong!