Yeah, 100%. About 99% of the customer base just wants to take a good photo with the smallest effort possible. Which makes it even more remarkable the company cares enough to include this kind of functionality in a consumer product.
Whenever someone wants a new feature or gets disrupted by the loss of a previous feature, people go, "you have to think of the consumers. Consumers don't use those features, because consumers are stupid. I can't see why anyone would ever add/keep a feature that's not going to be used by those consumers."
The comment I replied to didn't go nearly that far, but it's an argument I've seen so often that I feel compelled to point out that "consumers" are not the only target audience for Apple - they are trying to also market themselves to creators, as well as professionals, and they absolutely know the difference and notice when things like these become available.
> people go, "you have to think of the consumers. Consumers don't use those features, because consumers are stupid. I can't see why anyone would ever add/keep a feature that's not going to be used by those consumers."
Well, I don't think "people" generally do that. It's nothing to do with stupidity; just lack of need and interest.
> The comment I replied to didn't go nearly that far
Not just "didn't go that far", it wasn't anything to do with that. It was just articulating pleasant surprise.
If I were to return this thread to its objective origin, I would agree that if you're selling a mass-market device, it's surprising to cater to a fractional percentage of that user base. I don't see how that's contentious.
Apple sells a very enticing mix of feeling and product, the good old Jobs distortion field. They always had an enormous influence on what's cool, what's premium, what you should want, what's the baseline, etc.
And it's entirely possible that they got to the point that they are now saying pro stuff is cool. Even is 99.x % of users won't really use it.
