Do you want your laptop screen be as thick as an iPhone?
It’s just basic physics: you cannot have 1-inch sensor with a lens right on top of it in 3-5mm of total thickness. Just the same way your eye is not flat but 2cm long.
the camera protrudes on iPhones making them not sit flat, why cant they add a little bump to the outter shell of the top of the Macbook to fit better cameras?
The options are 3rd party things to mount your phone that take up way more space.
an iphone is not 1cm thick and I absolutely would not mind a buldge on the top of the screen, it doesnt change how the laptop would sit. and i think the iphone whith their protrudeing camera so that they wobble when placed screen up is more of a design crime. like some chair or table outside a cafe that wobbels, Steve is dead clearly in design
Folded optics and metalenses would like to have a chat. They just started using it on the iPhone, I imagine either tech will make it to laptops in the next couple years.
Face tracking. Even for my self, sounds crazy but a handful of my terminal aliases attempt to capture my mood by scanning my face so I can make a fun chart of my emotion while commiting code.
The fact companies sell products to stick mounting gear on a Macbook to mount your iphone to capture better video will tell you theres a market.
The Macbook camera ships with the same chip as the iPhone 5S (2013). It has sufficient pixels for what it is meant for with most of the processing done in software. That last bit is key.
Why thin? The WxH of their phones is crazy, bend gate.... I'd take a thicker phone, cant belive the dropped the 13 mini size, it was my last refugee since they killed the SE.
It’s just basic physics: you cannot have 1-inch sensor with a lens right on top of it in 3-5mm of total thickness. Just the same way your eye is not flat but 2cm long.