I don't doubt that, but most consumers are not professional photographers. They want results that look professional.

A digital camera is a no-brainer combined with a printing station where the phone just docks. They already have a version of this, but if they control hardware they could make it really solid—no compatibility issues, no headaches, just exactly what you want: an easy way to capture high-quality memories that don't get lost in the void of your camera roll.

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jfim 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Phones already do a lot of processing of images to make them look better than what a digital camera would capture out of the box, and Kodak already makes such a dock, it's called the Kodak dock: https://www.kodak.com/en/consumer/product/printing-scanning/...

	▲	rekabis 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		$200CAD. Ouch. A little cheaper than an Epson EcoTank printer, for sure (about ⅔ the price), and likely much better prints. But it’s a single-purpose machine, not something that can print off _anything_ in colour on Letter/A4 sized paper.

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dingaling 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> A digital camera is a no-brainer

A digital camera might be straightforward but the magic is in the lenses. You could make the most fabulous CMOS sensor known to man but if you put it behind a 3mm-thick, hugely aspheric plastic lens like a phone uses then you might as well not have bothered.