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We’ve discussed the idea of the cameras being lined up at the end before. Then in order to shoot spatial video and photos we would have to hold the camera vertically. That will be a muscle memory challenge. The same problem in shooting landscape for any photo.  A question, if that’s true, is how will those three sensors fit along the top if they’re all horizontal when the phone is vertical? Will they be smaller? Can Apple fit the same size sensors in? Remember that the normal camera is a lot bigger than the sensor due to the sensor based vibration system.

So, what about the others? A complaint about the ultra wide this year has been that the lens isn’t better so we have higher resolution soft images. I’ve found it to be a bit sharper, but not by what I was hoping. The sensor is also smaller than the main. Will the tele camera suffer from the same problem? I hope not. I was really hoping for the other sensors to be the same size as the main. The ultra doesn’t really need the camera stabilization, but the tele does. Will we get it?

i’m not interested in the nonsense 100x mag some other cameras give, or the 200mp sensor. They’re really gimmicks. Yes, you get an image, but you don’t get a good photo. So if you’re just interested in getting a poor image of something that otherwise can’t be gotten, fine. But I want a quality image, not a surveillance photo.

we’re seeing the cameras equal the 4:3 format for the main camera for most images. Even APS-C is reachable. But we need a real range of lenses to be really competitive. The sensors get better with time and the lenses do as well. What I’d really like to see is an ultra wide 2x zoom - 12-24mm. The mid, a 3x with 24 to 72 and the tele with a 4x at 72 to 288. It’s all doable with wide zooms normally being shorter than tele zooms and all are a fair number. There’s no theoretical reason why this can’t be done, but the camera bump would have to be bigger as well. Though I always wanted Apple to put a small Bayonet mount on instead. Then we could have real lenses instead of add-ons that just lower the quality. 

My wife, my daughter and I have been in the subscription model since it came out. This is great. Much better than the usual version. Ny paying monthly, you can stop payments when you give up your phone without a problem. Before, it was a hassle, unless you gave your phone back to Apple. Also, as much as I can recall, you couldn’t renew it when it ended. Now you can renew it for as long as you like. For less expensive products, it might not pay, but for more expensive ones, having an extra year or two of warrantee would be helpful for these who keep their devices linger. 

Now Trump gs said that Microsoft is negotiating for ir. But Trump says a lot of things that aren’t true, just what pops into his head. So we’ll have to wait and see. I don’t recall Microsoft making a comment on it.

Trump was the one who wanted Tick Tock banned in the first place. Now, he wants it because he thinks the viewers will want to see HIM on it. What a hypocrite.

mattinoz said:

programmer said:

Multi-chiplet gives Apple options.  The ultras so far have been dual chips of the same type, but that doesn’t have to be the case.  And they might be able to do edge connectors on more than one edge.  More expensive and higher power though, so mostly for desktops and servers.  Imagine one chip with just CPUs, and one with just GPUs… and connectors on two edges instead of one.  That would create a lot of permutations — all CPU, 3 GPU + 1CPU, 2+2.  Put a core or two on the GPU chiplet and then you could have “GPU only” combination.  Lots of options, which makes for some interesting possibilities for the pro desktop/server lineup.

None of which means that consumer machines wouldn’t still be single chip SoCs.

CXL would give more options and space to work with in the machine   Including more options 3rd party GPU. Could make sense of Apple nVidia team up. Rumours around model training. 

A  Mac Pro with MPX modules returning could make sense of a machine designed to be modular but basically not modular due to the pipeline they knew was coming 

No way. That’s not going to happen. Apple has moved in the opposition. They won’t use a GPU that runs through the PCIe bus as other video cards do. Using that would riyn performance. People need to understand how Apple’s chip work before proposing these “solutions”. The entire point of what Apple does is extremely tight integration. The RAM that’s used with the CPU is used with the GPU. But not the wat IG uses it on Intel chips. Going to a third party GPU would destroy Apple’s entire concept. Apple wants to use their own GPU the way they’ve been using it.