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smart phone displaced cheap camera market with image quality that is "good enough" for every day photos. especially those that will only be used digitally. they
by SonicSoul 11y ago
smart phone displaced cheap camera market with image quality that is "good enough" for every day photos. especially those that will only be used digitally. they did the same thing to hand held voice recorders. how is this "completely insane" ?
- paulmd 11y agoThe low-end camera market has always been dominated by "good enough" right from the beginning. Things like box cameras have always been enormously popular, see: the Kodak Brownie line. Disposable cameras were another "good enough" product, and actually remain extremely popular in less affluent parts of the world to this day. And the thing to remember here is that the smartphone is displacing another "good-enough" product, the digital point-and-shoot, not high-end DSLRs. It's just a matter of convenience to have it in your smartphone instead of two separate devices. Smartphones do not replace a high-end camera system - but those were never something that everyone owned/carried in the first place. The vast majority of cameras out there have always been the cheap variety that mom uses to snap pictures of her kids.