I've been wondering how the "Camera" should no longer be an app. Like Camera is a technology, and sure you can do the traditional thing of taking pictures, but by no means is that the only function of that technology on a personal computing device.
To begin with, it's a great cognitive offloading tool. It's the tool you use to take save receipts, books to read, food you've eaten, things you've done. Sometimes even medical readings if you're tracking them over time.
Photos are visual memory. The timeline acts as a tool for eidetic memory, or photo-recall; but mixing that with photos I take for Photography has interesting side-effects. The photos app is fundamentally not a note-taking app, so it's not smart enough to serve as one and thus curtails the technology's ability to serve as the center piece of computing that it is.
I think the next killer camera app is not one that helps you take better pictures, but one that combines taking pictures with it being a photographic memory.
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