Recently online-attended a Final Cut Pro summit conference which lasted 7 days. Some of the presentations were related to the iPhone 12 Pro camera, HDR capabilities and ProResRAW... it is a bit mind blowing, some of the pictures and movies were gorgeous and full of recoverable information: a picture could have been shot as a full white sky but can be under exposed afterwards and start seeing the clouds and other details that were there when taken.
On a pocket device... it truly demolishes the previous phones on that front (including the 8s of course!) and in all other fronts, cpu and gpu performance is unparalleled and in practical terms is also mind blowing: a AAA-lite like game that runs at like 10fps on an 8 runs at solid unstoppable unflinched 60fps on a 12.
I think cameras are important for these all-in-one pocket computers but to be honest, I very rarely use them overall... I don’t even use my phone as a phone either overall; I browse, read, check emails, reminders, chat, jog, spend time over here a whole lot more (50x more) than the time I spend making a phone call.
Issue is, these things being like a 60things-in-one devices... what should they focus on then? I think the screen resolution and performance are good enough so maybe they should stop focusing less on that and more on accurate GPS? What about speakers? I stopped caring about them 6 years ago (always in silent mode and always wireless earbuds)
What I mean is, it is impossible to please everybody because it does so many many tasks.
One thing though a decade ago, or even less, 5 years ago (I assume it was only an exaggeration joke) those cameras by today’s comparison are actually bad... plenty bad.
