Just for the record, I've not seen any picture taken with this feature that would make me want it. I would turn it off as soon as I got the phone. I've watched these and other demos and not liked anything I've seen.
I'm usually pro Apple but this feature...meh
Its too bad that we can't outfit phones to our taste. My phone would be devoid of the forward camera/flash, and about two thirds of what Apple installs as part of the current iOS.
One of things I've tried to get past is feeling the need to be enthusiastic about every feature Apple comes up with. I guess its a holdover from the days when I evangelized for the company, and tried to make a case for everything they did in order to show people just how much cooler the company's products were than the alleged competition.
Back when it was Mac vs PC, it was pretty easy, especially as OS X matured. Each new iteration of the operating system was faster and had a list of new features that a typical computer user would need, even if they didn't realize it at the time.
Now, with the iPhone taking the majority of headlines for the company, I find myself just standing back and saying "whatever" for just about every feature they come up with. Sometimes I find the new feature useful - like the control center. Prior to the iOS release that included it I found myself saying "Who cares? All these features can be accessed from the Settings. Why use up a valuable swipe gesture on this when we might need it later for something more important?" Then I got the update, messed with the control center a bit, and found it was a time saver for me.
But that kind of thing becomes rarer for me as iOS matures and the phone ecosystem is merging with all the "social" crap. I will never take a selfie - ever - so I don't need umpteen million features to make it easier to take, share, flash, etc. I don't use Twitter, Facebook, the Nike+ nonsense, HealthKit, HomeKit, Watch apps, etc, and I wish that stuff could be excised from my install. I will never use Siri - ever - so I don't appreciate it defaulting to scan all my correspondence for information. (I also don't like the fact that iOS at random times decides to turn on certain services that I don't use - ever - like location services. How helpful. For the NSA.) News seems like it might be... ok, but on my iPhone 5 the sample covers are so tiny I can't even see what is available to me. Plus, why look at a magazine on my phone when I have a 27 inch iMac at home? (Not to mention the subscription information is then used to help build a user profile, which.... you're welcome, NSA, again.)
I've had to get past my disdain for the social integration of the iPhone and realize that with every new iteration of the phone and the OS, that despite all the spyware that the company tries to slip by me the iPhone basics keep getting better. I want a phone has excellent call quality, and can browse, do email, and do multimedia text messaging. Excellent pics are a bonus.
Therefore, as long as I can turn off the stuff I don't like watching me, and hide the stuff I don't use, they can come up with all the features they want that are really just "features", I'll buy a new phone every two years to take advantage of the better hardware.