The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think

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• sepi@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, it's not.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This feels written by an LLM trained on exclusively Wikipedia and apple marketing

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow, they’re really trying hard to justify their €2,000 sink into a nonrepairable phone.

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This article gave me zero idea what a square front camera is.

  Does it mean that the sensor is a square instead of a rectangle? I’m confused.

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  • sanzky@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yes. it is a square sensor that the phone crops automatically to be a a rectangle. so it can take photos on landscape or portrait no matter if the phone physically vertical or horizontal.

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    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well well, isn’t that amazing /s

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But… why? Just give me the full image.

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    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      so in other words it’s automatically removing some of my image in order to fake being portrait or landscape?

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• stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe if I used my selfie camera more often than never.

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use it sometimes, when I need to connect a USB to the back of my PC I use it to see where the port is

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• Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This reads like an ad, with the romanticized stories.

  We take photos to preserve memories, but selfies feel distinctive for their intimacy.

  Feel distinctive; You sure it’s not the wider view angle leading to morphed images?

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• Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had something longer typed out, but this is just… So dumb

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• cercello@mastodon.bida.im ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @along_the_road
  Lowest of low bars here.

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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s definitely a bigger deal than I think. Given that the baseline of selfie camera expectations is “nothing.” So any utility would count.

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• t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  During the iPhone 17 launch event, Apple revealed that its customers took 500 billion selfies last year, a massive figure that shows just how normalized the practice has become.

  Selfies were often mocked when they were deemed the purview of Instagram-obsessed teenage girls, but these days it’s not unusual to see everyone from seniors to a gaggle of sports bros gathering around a single phone like an object of worship.

  Yes, now everyone is Instagram-obsessed, not just teenage girls. The ageism and misogyny was wrong. The negative assessment of people being vain was not.

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