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My cynical take is that they are intentionally:

A) Making the camera protrusion ungainly so that most people think "I'm going to put a case on this to make it look and feel better."

B) Changing the shape of the protrusion periodically to force people to get a new case.

Therefore adding an invisible extra $40-50 profit on millions of iphones sold.



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