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   Tobias Bernard (tbernard@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:40:19 JST Tobias Bernard

   Wait the camera bumps were optional this whole time?? https://www.theverge.com/news/631826/google-pixel-9a-specs-price-availability

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     Tobias Bernard (tbernard@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:40:18 JST Tobias Bernard

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     • Jakub Steiner ⭐

     @jimmac Not sure I buy that it's because of physics anymore, when Google just shipped the same camera for 5 years and nobody complained, because it's all software anyway...

     My completely unscientific hot take is that the huge camera bumps are mostly a camera quality placebo and a way to upsell people on the more expensive phones.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:40:18 JST Børge

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     • Jakub Steiner ⭐

     @tbernard My take would rather be that it's likely that new R&D has made the bump less necessary than before @jimmac

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     Jakub Steiner ⭐ (jimmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:40:19 JST Jakub Steiner ⭐

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     @tbernard Stop with the 'sensors / optics don't have to be big'. The fact you have outsourced your photography doesn't mean physics don't apply for the rest of us ;) The camera is like 90% of the utility of that device from hell for me.