I could be wrong about the reason I'm getting worse directions from Google Maps. It just seems so very familiar.
As for improved cameras - cell phone cameras haven't been bad enough for years for me to dislike even the lowest end ones available. This is the same principle that caused me to buy a decent ghetto blaster, many years ago, rather than an expensive stereo system - I couldn't hear the difference, with the music I preferred. So no need to spend more to get what would only be a status symbol ;-) Obviously YMMV.
I also know, from my time at Apple, that the cameras with the best stats often use an extreme amount of phone resources, especially memory. The result was (usually minor) performance issues, often in other apps, when you'd used the camera recently. My job was to fix performance issues, so I got to see a lot of them.
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Date: 2024-10-10 07:02 pm (UTC)As for improved cameras - cell phone cameras haven't been bad enough for years for me to dislike even the lowest end ones available. This is the same principle that caused me to buy a decent ghetto blaster, many years ago, rather than an expensive stereo system - I couldn't hear the difference, with the music I preferred. So no need to spend more to get what would only be a status symbol ;-) Obviously YMMV.
I also know, from my time at Apple, that the cameras with the best stats often use an extreme amount of phone resources, especially memory. The result was (usually minor) performance issues, often in other apps, when you'd used the camera recently. My job was to fix performance issues, so I got to see a lot of them.