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by tortasaur 2071 days ago
The title implies that LIDAR was $75,000 until Apple put it into the iPhone, but it's just clickbait. The answer to the headline is that it improvements to the tech made it cheaper over the course of a decade. It's like saying "a computer used to cost millions in government funding, but Samsung somehow put one in your pocket"; it skips quite a few notable steps for dramatic effect.