Comments on: If only Apple made a digital camera

What happens when electronic devices too complicated for regular human beings become the norm, not the exception?

[BetterthanurX]

Couldn't agree more

These are the reasons i have yet to find a replacement to my
current phone (everything out there is either boring or lacking in
something) and the reasons i use a mac more than i do a PC. Lets
hope things change.

[jabbotts]

nah, your on the right track

"i use a Mac more than i do a PC"

Your on the right track. In this case I'm a little behind; I know far too much about IT to still be using a PC.

[Lefein]

Kudos

Product integration is nice and all, but it has gone much too far in recent years. I just wish I could use my PSP as a cell phone and be done with it.

A digital camera shouldn't have a half-inch thick instruction booklet.. It's just silly. It also shows a lack of focus on quality in the electronics industry.

[JohnMcLeod]

If Only... Oh wait, they did.

Apple made, I believe, the first consumer digital camera. The Quicktake if I remember correctly. Friends who owned them loved them. As the category matured, Apple left the market. Now imagine with today's technology what you could get from Apple in a digital camera. It's nice to dream.

[Andrew J Glina]

No

They sold the first. Kodak made it but hated it so much that they didn't want their name on it. I used one and they were right.

[BMoake]

I don't understand the shine.

What is the big deal? The cameras couldn't be easier to use. Find one that does what you want. If you don't like the extra features, don't use them.

My camera has a lot of features I have never used, and probably wont', but it does everything I want/need it to.

[BMoake]

I don't understand the shine.

What is the big deal? The cameras couldn't be easier to use. Find one that does what you want. If you don't like the extra features, don't use them.

My camera has a lot of features I have never used, and probably wont', but it does everything I want/need it to.

[BMoake]

That was supposed to be

Who needs proofreading!

[BMoake]

That was supposed to be whine

Who needs proofreading!

[e3954]

Confusing tech

Technology product manufacturers are constantly looking for something new to offer customers. If there isn't anything absolutely mind-blowing "must have" just about to make its appearance, the marketing folks take over and take features/benefits and try to make them indispensible on existing technology products. Indispensible, that is to say, in the minds of us consumers. That's why we now must have HD TVs, never mind the very great possibility that when this technology finally "arrives", the stuff we bought won't work without modification (at our expense, of course)if it works at all. After all, TV manufacturers still have to sell lots of TVs to stay in business, and if there isn't anything really importantly new, well then they just create from marketing techniques, something and make us feel that we have to have it.

[jty12388]

3D pictures

Who do you think fault really lies on here? If you walk into BestBuy and theres two cameras that are the same price do you pick up the 4 megapixel or the 6.2 megapixel? Do you really know which one takes a better picture? No, the average person just sees a bigger number and possible a Sony logo and that must be the best one. So if manufacturers don't throw the right number at you they don't sell their product. Besides if they did not constantly make changes and improvements we would not be moving forward and someday I might want a 3D picture. I have never picked up a digital camera that I could not figure out how to use without an instruction manual, but if its that hard for you I have a really simple solution for you. Go to your local RadioShack and find the guy thats been there for a few years. It shouldn't be hard due to the small size of the store. Answer a few simple questions including what your main use for the camera will be as well as how technologically inept you are and they will show you the camera that is right for your needs. If your really bad I bet he will show you how to take pictures right in the store. The bottom line is that all the numbers means that there is competition. Competition means better products and lower prices so don't complain. If you can't figure out the easy to use cameras on the market today maybe you should get a sketch pad.