> who’s to say what Apple could do when given an image from a high end camera sensor instead of the tiny one in an iPhone?
Ruin it. But they wouldn't, because there'd be no need.
The thing about a big high-end camera sensor is that having one means you don't need to fake bokeh. You can put a good fast prime lens in front of it and get the real thing. Phone cameras have to post-process their way to it because the physics of their small sensors mean they simply aren't capable of capturing enough off-axis light to produce true bokeh.
My wife has iPhone 8, I can't find portrait mode on it (I'm coming from Pixel 3 so I was wondering how it looks on iPhones).
When I scroll the photo modes there is no such thing as "portrait".
Or maybe it is only for the Plus models with two cameras?
As well, who’s to say what Apple could do when given an image from a high end camera sensor instead of the tiny one in an iPhone?
And lastly, why not just enable power users to turn it off? Sure you can say manpower would be better directed at other problems, but who cares if post processing capabilities are on the camera if you can turn it off? Those who want it use it. Those who don’t don’t.