Working in an industry that sometimes requires photos to be taken for documentation purposes, cameras that are cameras alone have been abandoned for years. The camera on a phone or tablet is considered good enough, with the most attention recently given to wearable cameras or drones.

Innovation happened, but not within the existing camera form.

Having used phones 15 years ago, it wasn’t. There may be some cases where a phone could live on longer, but two years was generally a decent cadence to buy a new phone.

Once you get to the 5-10 year mark, cameras on phones were generally good enough for most users.

By the time that phones were good enough not to upgrade every two years, cameras in phones were good enough for most consumers.

I’m not taking it as you being hateful against me personally, I’m just being realistic given the market compared to your wants.

Phone manufacturers have come up with ways to handle depth of field which involve more than one camera, which invalidates a phone with an amazing sensor attached to a lens. The market isn’t going to provide the device you want.

Without the lens, the camera still costs a lot of money and a lot of that is due to the sensor and the image processing which comes from that.

Phones have become less modular, not more.

But the issue is that the phone and camera would need to be updated together. A large cost to the camera is the sensor and it doesn’t need to be updated at the cadence of the rest of the phone.

I’m not. Camera hardware lasts significantly longer than phone hardware.

Sony seems to have a decent idea by providing a decent way for their cameras to interact with phones and computers, but I can’t imagine marrying the two.

The problem is that Galaxy’s Edge got descoped later in the design process while Eisner made decisions early on in the design process to ensure a cheaper park.

Galaxy’s Edge feels emblematic about the issues of design under Iger versus Eisner.

Eisner vastly expanded park capacity, but he didn’t just focus on E-ticket attractions. He intentionally built some parts of the parks to entertain but cheaper to add capacity and give people a place to be entertained if they didn’t want to wait in long lines.

In contrast, most of Iger’s expansions were generally a lot more costly and didn’t have the throughout of previous E-ticket attractions. This ended up pushing Disney into being a more premium experience.

I feel like this is a symbol of the difference between the Eisner and the Iger CEO tenures. Eisner built out a massive expansion of the parks under his leadership, doubling the gates in Anaheim and Orlando while planning international expansion. Iger didn’t, choosing smaller expansions with premium experiences over capacity expansions.

It is part of the reason that Universal has been able to grow so much, Disney doesn’t have the capacity that it needs to meet high end theme park demand.

Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.

The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.

This wasn’t built to be a great service, it was built to be a French controlled one.

That’s typical for most construction projects.

If I’m going to build a building or a bridge, the number of people required to build is far more than the number of people required to maintain.

It looks like we’re starting to hit the same issue with websites. You need a maintenance staff for websites, but no where near the level of staff required to build the thing.

No country wants to build a tech infrastructure that they don’t control.

I don’t know if it is purposeful. It just seems to be a side effect of the market going all in on AI.

Even during the halcyon days of CD sales in the late 90’s, there was a decent amount of filler on a lot of albums. It didn’t help that albums were the product while singles were what were advertised.

Yeah. My previously covered medication now has a $10 copay.

That hasn’t been a thing since 2001.

It was a great way of showing off YouTube talent. There were meaningful trends on YouTube for a while and these videos were a way to celebrate what went viral for the year.

That these videos are harder to make speaks a lot to how YouTube has changed as a platform.