“We’ve been partnering with Sony for over a decade to create the world’s leading camera sensors for iPhone,” Cook tweeted, and thanked Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida for showing him around the Kumamoto facility.A photo shows Cook being shown his company’s own smartphone, which is objectively very funny.Apple largely keeps tight-lipped about the specifics of the hardware components that go into each iPhone, so outright confirming that it’s used Sony camera sensors for over a decade is notable.A Wall Street Journal report from 2015 said that Apple was using two Sony sensors in the iPhone 6, and past iFixit teardowns have referenced specific Sony model numbers.Tim Cook’s visit to Sony’s facility suggests this partnership isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and a recent report in Nikkei Asia offers some clues as to what the companies are working on for future iPhones."