Maybe some good news for Sony : Apple Inc could be looking to switch to Sony sensors for secondary camera

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kupomogli said:

Pemalite said:

Apple would likely be paying at-most $20 for both camera's, so it's not horribly high-margin for image sensor manufacturers, it's the high-end sensors like what are found in the Lumia 1020 that would push any sort of decent margins.
But it should help the bottom line and make things look rosy to shareholders at-least, basically means squat to us general consumers though.

Hopefully it also means better cameras in the iPhone, the current ones are absolutely shocking to say the least!

Yeah, the profit isn't that big per sale, but think about how many apple products are sold.  That's several millions, and that's just when the product launches. 

The iphone 5 already sold around 90 million pieces and the iphone 5S is already at 12-13 million and the 5C at around 5-7 million. Seeing how all available models reach between 45 and 50 million per quarter that can be a significant increase for Sony. I expect that Apple will also use high quality image sensors from Sony for their front camera. And the top-tier model will probably receive those 20MP sensors that Sony used in Z1 and Z1 Compact