Indeed. If you read between the lines, there are some hints that internal design / engineering issues + supply chain snafus left Apple with a mismatch between t

Indeed. If you read between the lines, there are some hints that internal design / engineering issues + supply chain snafus left Apple with a mismatch between their new camera system and the SoC that supports it. To me, the clearest signal of this is what Halide can and can’t do with the new Pro sensor. In ideal lighting, the Halide-processed 48MP JPEG shots look insanely good, with strand-of-hair-level detail. It’s hard to imagine Apple wouldn’t have wanted to show off the ability for ordinary users to take these shots. But capture speed is several seconds, and if conditions aren’t ideal, even that isn’t enough to get a clean shot. Like MKBHD said about Google & the Pixel: Apple needs a generation or two for computation to be optimized for the capabilities of their new sensor.