This is a terrible article full of outright falsehoods with no examples. It seems like they just quoted a bunch of older "get off my lawn" photographers who ei

This is a terrible article full of outright falsehoods with no examples. It seems like they just quoted a bunch of older "get off my lawn" photographers who either don't know how to use the latest iPhones or haven't even tried them. Pretty much everything they're talking about is either outright wrong, or it's behavior that can be turned off in the settings or influenced in the camera app, or just go use an alternate app. Some of the complaints in the article are as simple as the person complaining doesn't know how to control exposure compensation or automatic exposure lock on the iPhone. Both of these are things that have not changed in a long time on the iPhone. Portrait mode is imperfect for sure, but the author doesn't seem to understand that a large aperture on a traditional camera is also liable to produce weird effects in a picture and will most certainly do things like make things in the background disappear. Using that wisely separates a good photographer from a bad one. There is a RAW mode for people who are complaining about that. Maybe it's not "RAW enough" but the same thing has happened in the DSLR/MILC world for a while too. Sony was doing processing on their RAW files a long time ago. Some of the stuff going on with DLSRs/MILC is targeted very heavily at spec sheet chasers these days and far less so artistic/working photographers. It's gotten a bit out of hand lately. I have a bunch of pro level photo gear and a lot of it has lost a lot of fun over the last 10 years.. the smartphone photography has gotten a lot more interesting. I've printed 60" wide photos on one of my cameras and it's 10 years old now. Zero reason for me to upgrade it for any realistic improvement in megapixels and the other things the camera companies are selling, for which they want $4000. Likewise ultra expensive new lenses which improve performance in the corner of the frame but weigh 2x as much as what I have already. The spec chasers love all this stuff to death but if the subject of the photo isn't in the corner no viewer cares, and not many quality compositions focus on the corners. And it's certainly not worth upgrading a $1000 lens to a $2000-3000 lens. Even MILC is in many ways a sideways move and often focuses on the same stuff smartphones are doing. The 3 lens smartphones have gotten really really compelling for anyone who really thinks about how they shoot. If you're not chasing printing big prints you can take the smartphone and get the same results as having to take an entire bag of expensive camera gear that cost you thousands. The biggest weakness of the smartphones is flash & external lighting.. but there have been hacks & add on devices to control external flashes for quite a while now too. As in years. A lot of that is the same kind of stuff you used to have to do with "Pro" photo gear. No matter what the camera is someone will always complain about the camera being the cause of their bad photography. It is almost never the camera's fault. It is almost always a problem between the floor and the shutter button. Be a maker not a taker, etc..