[piskov]

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.

[w-ll]

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.

[piskov]

You do understand that larger sensor means not only thicker package but also larger width?

Would you like 1cm black border around your display like it’s a pc from 2010?

Short answer: all this would make an ugly laptop.

That’s why they created belkin magsafe iphone camera mount

[w-ll]

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

[piskov]

iPhone is not only 1cm thick, it’s actually more: 1.275cm to be precise with the bump.

Also camera hole has a diameter of 1.6cm.

[ricardobeat]

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.