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[–] 25 points 1 year ago

No, it's not.

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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    @along_the_roadLowest of low bars here.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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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