New technology has radically altered the camera industry every ten years or so since the 1820's[1]. Just consider the givens of Apple's camera: solid state storage, CMOS image sensing, in camera image processing, live scene preview, auto-focus, auto-aperature, etc. Not to mention the radio transmitter infrastructure that makes instant image sharing possible and the electronics technologies that make always carrying the camera in one's purse a benefit rather than a burden.
The article also ignores the limitations that any small sensor camera has due to physics. Photons arrive within a poisson distribution. The Nyquist limit is hard. Magical designs can't change that.
None of which is to say that the new camera won't be good for some definition of 'good'. But the enabling technologies of snapshots are not changing. Neither is the pace of change in photography.
[1]: and image making since at not all too dissimilar intervals since the Reneissance e.g. printing press, oil paint, camera obscuras, optics, perspective].
The article also ignores the limitations that any small sensor camera has due to physics. Photons arrive within a poisson distribution. The Nyquist limit is hard. Magical designs can't change that.
None of which is to say that the new camera won't be good for some definition of 'good'. But the enabling technologies of snapshots are not changing. Neither is the pace of change in photography.
[1]: and image making since at not all too dissimilar intervals since the Reneissance e.g. printing press, oil paint, camera obscuras, optics, perspective].