Other Why isn’t Apple pushing the boundaries of camera tech on the Pro?

[Dulcimer]

You would think one obvious way to differentiate the base and Pro series is to give the Pro a bigger camera sensor, bigger/better lenses, etc. Not just rely on mostly software/computational gimmicks to upsell.

Pure laziness to just give the base model the same camera/lenses as last year’s Pro. I realize they do this to save on sourcing/engineering costs but it’s just laziness. Give us a fat camera array in the back of the Pros with 1-inch sensors and maybe even moving lenses for better long range shots. Innovate!

 

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Objective evaluations of smartphone cameras (e.g. DXOmark) indicate that Apple is not falling behind any manufacturer in this regard.

 

[1096bimu]

Because bigger is not more "pushing boundaries"
there are ways to "push the boundary" other than making the sensor bigger, which was never really a boundary pushing exercise since full frame digital camera sensors, and bigger, have existed for decades.

This happens all the time with Apple now days, "why isn't apple making progress?"
They are, just not in the limited ways you understand.

Also if everybody is just making the sensor bigger, how is making the sensor bigger "innovative?"
The whole point of innovation is doing things differently, that means making it better without just making the camera bigger, which is exactly what they have done. And yet you're here saying they need to do exactly what everyone else is doing in order to "innovate", what?