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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.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
"Is that a camera protruding from your back or are you happy to see me?"
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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. )
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.
Except that these are software renderings...
You mean parallel universe (the iUniverse)
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?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
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?
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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".
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.
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).
The subject of the photograph does not have zero thickness. The camera focal point could be along the plane of the front of the subject, which would make it *not* along the plane of the rear of the phone.
Imagine I am standing long the plane of the front of a building, am I also standing along the plan of the rear of a building? Am I looking at the building at a flat 90 (whatever that means)?
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?
You didn't think the reality distortion field was just a figure of speech, did you? It's been the primary subject of research for Apple to try and reform the Beatles since their revenues fell so heavily when they split up. (The whole Apple suing Apple thing was just a smokescreen, man).
"theverge" is not a hater site.
"nothing to support the theory": aren't the photos good enough to support the claim? You want links to Apple's site? Here: http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/ see for yourself. Check the photos under "iPhone at its largest. And thinnest."
Either you are blind or an Apple fanboi. So stop flaming slashdot.
...in for a pound: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9...
Thank you for there link, I followed it and found none of the "edited" photos you claim are there. I found ONE photo that showed the iPhone from an angle that showed the camera bulge and the bulge was there...
So, flaming slashdot - what a concept - lol... I am sure all the hate posted here is legitimate and justified. I see you are proud enough of your comment to stand behind it and not post anonymously - oh wait... I will stand behind my years posting here and my reputation and not hide behind "Anonymous Coward"...
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.
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.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
Artistic license or great Conspiracy? It is a sort of mixed message isn't it. The "from the side" images don't show this bezel protruding - along with an "artistic" shadow.
As for the other images - they all clearly show the camera bezel. https://www.apple.com/iphone-6... This isn't like it's a great selling feature - meaning - is it material or just marketing?
Scroll down to the "Streamlined: inside and out" and "Elements of Design" and you'll clearly see the camera "protruding."
It's quite possible that the side view looked "strange" with a little hair-thin spec that was removed "for clarity." Kind of like cereal "enlarged to show texture" (or make you hungry) ?
Gosh - having a phone so large it requires an external monitor you wear on your wrist? Or a thin bezel sticking out from the back? Oh the horror.
In my day, we called them codpieces.
Now get off my lawn, peasant!
Have gnu, will travel.
From Apple's page at http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/:
http://images.apple.com/iphone-6/overview/images/design_details_right_large.jpg
The perfectly orthogonal side view shows no camera protusions whatsoever.
http://images.apple.com/iphone-6/overview/images/design_details_right_large.jpg
Looks like Apple's site to me.
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.
I went to Apples site and looked around - there were no side views to be seen - hmm.
Lying, totally inept, actually blind and visiting Apple's website in a text only browser, or trolling.
Your pick.
The six has a flat back, Mr. Always Corrected.
No it doesn't, not according to Apple's website - see the bit where they compare thickness - the smaller 6 clearly has the protruding lens. Also you can quite clearly see it in engadget's hands on video.
AC points out that there is a side view and provides a link. frnic:
Your original claim was that there was no view from the side. There clearly is. So it sounds like you are accusing someone of having created fake photos, rather than showing photos from the Apple site.
The camera bulge is not visible in that photo. Maybe, as some suggest, the angle is such that the lens is not visible. Or maybe the photo was edited. But you were trying to deny that there were any photos from the side - the AC pointed out that there is, it's the fourth image on the page. That's true whether coming from an AC or a logged in user.
I don't see anywhere in the AC's post where he says the photos were edited. Nor did he claim that there were no photos in which the bulge is visible. So one can at least wonder if that photo was edited. You were trying to claim there was no photo to wonder about.
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.
It especially doesn't make sense in light of the fact that there are numerous images of the iPhone that show the camera, and in each one, it is obvious that the camera protrudes. So, why go through the effort to hide it?
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.
Do you rate Apple.com as one of those "rumor mills and third party sites"?
You seriously don't see any side view images of the iPhone?
Counting by images, the 2nd, 5th and 7th iPhone images on http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/... are all side views!
Please try harder!
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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.
The iPhone users in my office don't use cases.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
The truly affluent don't fatten their devices up with 'cases' because they're going to replace it before it matters. Cases are fashion, and for the kind of fuck who spins off into a rage when someone scratches the fender on the car he's leasing.
You annihilated nobody.
By the way, I know your address. Expect a few 'well-being' check ups, if not a visit from myself, personally, with the white coats in tow.
So 'secure' in your HOSTS that you forget that your personal info, which can do a lot more damage, is already out on the net thanks to people you've pissed off.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
No, he didn't show shit. He posted nonsense without any backing links. He deliberately went off-topic to keep talking.
He's not going to be talking for much longer. People he's pissed off have his info, I have it now.
Do I dox or do I take care of business myself?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Like all the rest of the modern corporate scum, AAPL refers to us as "consumers". What a filthy word. The decline in the U.S. standard of living parallels the use of that word... OBTW: Mozilla is changing the name of FireFox. They are going to call it StinkyPig. ;-D
Dear Microlimp: I give you 2 valid product keys for win7 and you reject both of them. Piss off you wankers!!!
That's not news, that's just par for the course.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Every photo on that link that even would remotely have aspect on the camera, shows the "bulge".
And we're talking about 0.8mm here, which is absolutely retarded anyway.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
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.
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!