Should Point and Shoot Cameras Fear iPhone Features and Connectivity?
By emeadows
September 17, 2012
September 17, 2012
- Apple’s new iPhone 5 features an 8-megapixel camera that also shoots 1080p HD video. The camera touts an LED flash, face detection and can take wide panoramic shots.
- According to Businessweek, this makes the iPhone camera equal to many available point-and-shoot cameras.
- But it goes beyond that, offering “the things people care about — sharing photos, using filters, and having a device by their side at all times,” which “trump most of the features and settings camera makers offer with their standalone products,” suggests the article.
- In other words, the point-and-shoot industry may be in even more trouble than before.
- “The introduction of a stronger camera in the iPhone 5 and the new iPod touch — which comes with a very camera-like wrist strap, just to drive home the point Apple is making about how they think people will use that device — is just another step on the point-and-shoot’s accelerating journey to obsolescence,” writes Businessweek.
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