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This comment seems completely at odds with history and how people actually acted prior to the smartphone revolution. Film camera sales proceeded on a steady in
by hug 2y ago
This comment seems completely at odds with history and how people actually acted prior to the smartphone revolution.
Film camera sales proceeded on a steady incline from their invention until the introduction of the digital camera.
Digital camera sales increased year on year for every year of their existence prior to the introduction of the smartphone.
Approximately everybody wants to have photos of their precious memories, and the idea that people wouldn't have kept buying digital cameras if smartphones didn't incorporate them is, to be frank, a little bit silly.
The primary difference between digital cameras and smartphones was that every family I knew had a digital camera, where every person I know has a smartphone. And every single person I know uses the camera on their smartphone very regularly.
- benoau 2y ago> Approximately everybody wants to have photos of their precious memories I guess the idea is all your memories are precious. What the parent poster said certainly resonated with me: most of them are not. Writing is also a big part of history, which also gave us the ability to preserve our most special events since over 6,000+ years ago. This is the first century that isn't permeated with unknowns because few made any deliberate attempt to record things - and we had the option to paint on a cave wall for 10,000s of years before that too.
- hug 2y agoThat's not my point at all. My point is rather more mundane than that: People like cameras and taking photos. That's why they kept buying them as standalone devices until smartphones were good enough to replace having a standalone camera. If the king of the universe suddenly decreed cameras on phones verboten, people would go back to buying standalone cameras, not back to floral written descriptions, commissioning a portrait on canvas, or cave paintings.
- swiftcoder 2y ago> The primary difference between digital cameras and smartphones was that every family I knew had a digital camera, where every person I know has a smartphone The real difference is the rise of social media. Digital camera photos were taken for you, for your family and close friends. In the post-facebook world we live in now, smartphone photos are taken for other people - a curated snapshot of your life to show off to acquaintences and strangers. Something of the intimacy of photography has been lost.