The cameras of the iPhone 12 Pro have brought us new features such as improved lenses, a LiDAR sensor or the more recent possibility of using the ProRAW format; But According to Ming-Chi Kuo’s latest report, we won’t see as many new functions in the cameras of the iPhone 13 and 14.
The analyst backs the data in a price war between two suppliers of the lenses that are part of the iPhone cameras, Largan and Genius Electronic. As evidenced by MacRumors, who had access to the Kuo report, this war could affect the profit margins of both companies and consequently affect the arrival of improved glasses.
Linear improvements by 2023, although with plenty of scope for change
Thus, Kuo sees a stagnation in the evolution of iPhone lenses which could be extended until 2023, with this year’s iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 of 2022 showing few significant improvements. At least from a hardware point of view, there can always be improvements on the software side.
Being a rumor with long term effects, I would treat this data with some skepticism. Something like a price war between two suppliers can be set fairly quickly through tuning, and at Apple, they always have the option of simply finding another supplier that meets their ambitions without getting into a price war. Also, looking at Apple’s agenda by 2023, it is very likely that the iPhones we will have in two years will be quite different from the ones we will have now. Who knows what kind of lenses we’ll need back then.
