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Does Apple claim to be the first with these camera features?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:57:46

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Apple historically waits for technology maturity rather than innovating first; introduces features when they can deliver better user experience than existing solutions.

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57:45first but what they do is they kind of just wait things out to make sure that the technology like if they're going to do something they're going to wait until they have something that they think is considerably a better user experience than what is already out there. Like they're not gonna do something unless they have a contribution that they think is actually worth doing.

58:08Go ahead, Guy. Yeah, one more thing on that note. So Samsung and Apple had some patent disputes back in the 90s. And David Brady just sent me a link to this video that he's like, is this Adam Tao in it? It's a Newton video. And one of the things that the guy says in this video, It's like an hour-long documentary. He said, Steve Jobs hated the Newton,

58:31but it was the Newton that saved Apple because the patent disputes with Samsung, those patents were already for the Newton that became the iPhone. So the iPhone wouldn't exist without the Newton patents. And then the ARM technology, the actual chips in there, they sold those stock for 800 million bucks and that's what kept Apple afloat. So I'll put a link to that documentary in the chat.

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