I find this pretty wild.
Apple wants to put a camera in its phone that can take photos similar to what you accomplish on an SLR with a big lens with a big aperture. Can't get the optics to fit.
So instead: They put two cameras in the phone, each with a small aperture; perform intensive computation in order to create a depth map based on the offset of the two photos, then digitally apply gaussian blur to the right areas of the image.
Same effect?
Well made unofficial website.
The title says it all.
Nice overview of how iMessage security works, in a way that not even Apple can intercept messages. Interesting in view of WhatsApp's recent announcement of encryption and all the FBI / hacking hoopla.
Anyone interested in the Apple vs FBI debate or in encryption/privacy/security in general in how it relates to government and law enforcement should read this.
Could it be that they were full of it the whole time? (answer: yes)
Thorough and technical.
It's interesting to me that most people don't consciously know the unreasonable lengths Apple will go to deal with some detail nobody ever thought of.
Bear in mind that this is one of the biggest companies in the world and whatever they do will have a large impact due to their sheer scale.
Very nice video of Steve Wozniak talking about the early days of Apple and his design philosophies.
This image shows just how impressive the new iMac with Retina display is.
Interesting article on what was going on behind the scenes during the secretive development of the iPhone.
"Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you."
Very thorough.
Funny, yet unsurprising.
Being able to have a checkmark next to a feature in a feature list doesn't mean much.
A look into Samsung's way of doing business.
Pretty classy.
