I've never seen a camera in a phone better than a $500 camera, never mind $1000. They are way more useful (portable, always present) and do lots of cool proces

I've never seen a camera in a phone better than a $500 camera, never mind $1000. They are way more useful (portable, always present) and do lots of cool processing to get usable images in low light etc., but image quality is not competitive with a good lens on even an ancient DSLR. Shallow depth of field in particular - phones generally do it with software, and it's always jarring how fake it looks.