[twoodfin]

That is a great analysis. But I'd put money down that he's wrong about the camera. It will have a "sensor package" which may actually include optics, but just like Face ID today, the raw data will be inaccessible to the user or applications.

I can't imagine privacy-focused Apple has any interest in selling a device that could be used to discreetly capture images. That caused no end of bad PR for Google Glass, and for the Apple of today it would be in service of a a marginally marketable feature at best.

I can certainly imagine Tim or Phil at the keynote: "When you want to take a picture, you have the best mobile camera in the world already in your pocket."

[oflannabhra]

Which makes me sad. I would easily pay a lot of money for this feature alone:

My kid does something adorable. I click a button and the last x seconds are saved from my perspective.

Snap got close, even Google Clips tried. None of them nailed it.

I understand all the privacy implications, and all the dystopian hand-wringing, but to be honest, that one thing would be pretty awesome, and I can only imagine what it would be like to look back 30 years from now.

[m463]

I think cameras will be the new guns, and some people will be ok with them and some will not.

The thing is, people with the cameras will wield power over their subject, and many will not like it.

I don't know if the answer will be laws, or polite norms, or further civilization of what people accept.

[jmole]

because the battery life requirements for recording continuous footage for a post-capture shutter button are pretty damn high, especially if you want the footage to look good.

i agree though, it's a killer feature for sure.