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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by izacus on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:08AM (#25506900)
Most likely because most of the difference is in the Qualcomm DSP attached to your phones SoC, not the actual camera module. The mobile phone images contain a lot of postprocessing which the webcams don't do.
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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by postalrat on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:11AM (#25506936)
Include the DSP then. You have twice the budget of the phone to produce the USB camera.
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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by est31 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:50AM (#25508252)
But you produce in lower quantities so your development cost makes up a larger slice of the pie, as well as other fixed costs deeper into your supply chain.
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