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Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com)
A rumor from The Korea Herald suggests that Apple may be planning on introducing its first triple camera smartphone this year with the rumored 6.5-inch iPhone. The rumor comes buried in a piece mostly about Samsung, which is also expected to introduce a triple-camera smartphone with next year's S10. The Next Web reports: To be clear, this isn't the first time we've heard word of a triple camera iPhone, but the three previous reports have pointed to a 2019 release, according to MacRumors. One of these reports was from Ming Chi Kuo, an Apple analyst who has a solid track record. The fact that's it's mentioned offhandedly in the Korea Herald report makes me think the date may have been a mistake. No matter how good AI and processing get, there's only so much you can do within the physical constraints of a small smartphone sensor. In theory, using multiple cameras and combining the information with some smart processing could help you somewhat replicate the image quality of a larger sensor.
Phones with 3 cameras. Razors with 5 blades. Monkeys with 6 asses.
No room for an sd slot, removable battery, or headphone jack. But 3 cameras, sure.
Fuck everything, we're doing five cameras.
Real Men shave with dull hatchets and take pictures with one lens. Everything else is for pussies and people with pussies.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
The AI does advanced math on the 3 images so that all fit together into a trendy image.
Take the "3" images into AI software and select the light and what has to be in focus.
The 3 images give the user more light information and focus to select a part of the image they really think will make them look artistic and skilled.
Click when when ready and the "AI" will save an image.
AI created software bokeh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with a tap/click of the user.
3 images blended by software into one image just has to look better after an AI has stacked the images together.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
A phone with no headphone jack is like... I hear Apple is entering the highly competitive cutlery and tableware market. Their initial foray will be called the iFork. Thirty percent lighter, it will feature an innovative, single-tine design, streamlining the movement of food between your plate (works best with the new Apple Plate,) and your mouth. Why only one tine when other fork makers are using three, or occasionally two? Because... COURAGE.
A year later Apple will offer the iFork 2, with a head that swivels 355 degrees allowing the freedom to grasp it at nearly any angle, and following the famous words, “one more thing,” they will wow the breathless WWDC crowd with the new iSpoon, which will be a rounded rectangle, with a rounded square hole in one end, that expands on contact with a liquid to hold a larger volume than seems possible, like a gull has. Featuring a proprietary gallium aluminum magnesium nickel alloy, the iSpoon will retail initially for $199.95, and have a base capacity of up to 3.7ml, and be fully rechargeable.
Several years later, Apple will discontinue the iFork, introduce the Apple Knife, Knife Edition, with a side for buttering avocado toast, and a side for cutting tofu, (since by then Apple will become a pure vegan company,) though third-party attachments will become available to allow for cutting of meats and cheeses, but Apple will say that using one violates the Terms of Service and the warranty, and makes puppies cry. Then they’ll offer a holiday bundle with the Apple Spoon, a rose-gold Apple Knife, (the first that is NOT Knife Edition,) and bring back the iFork, in the form of the new iFork SE, a throwback to people who REALLY liked the old iFork, and while internally it will share many of the same features as the Apple Spoon, it will reinvigorate the market for third-party add-on tine sleeves, owing to it having identical size and shape to the original. The set of three will, with Apple iFinancing, for well-qualified buyers, be available for twelve easy, simple payments of $39.95. Available initially in the US only.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
No mention of putting the cameras on opposite ends of the phone so you could use it for stereoscopic photos. That would be cool.
J
For instance when computers started dropping floppy disk drives.
Bullshit. CDs/DVDs/Flash drives completely and affordably replaced the functionality of floppy drives before they were removed. Bluetooth headphones don't replace corded headphones because you have to charge them, they rely on their own DAC, and the battery gives them a limited lifespan. The dongle doesn't replace the jack because you can't charge and listen at the same time.
People aren't against technology moving on, people are against it moving on before there are adequate alternatives.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Just like they did when Apple removed the parallel port, RS232, modems, Firewire, ethernet, headphone jack, replaceable batteries, Flash support, user-expandable DRAM, VGA ports, the original iPod connector, etc., etc.
/. does. It's pretty hard to find a more anti-innovation website. Apple is worth $800B specifically because they ignore /.
Shitting bricks is just what
So Apple screwed up on the floppy drive too. Meanwhile, people who used sensible devices like Thinkpads had a floppy option until flash drives *were* invented, or at least the laptop came with a CD/RW. Apple has a long history of abandoning users, that part is clear.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.