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Inclusive Smartphone Cameras: The Line Between Innovation and Reputation
Google and Apple have made smartphone cameras that embrace diversity, but are their intentions as pure as they seem?
When you buy a new phone a lot of thoughts enter your mind. Is the screen big enough, or maybe is the screen too big? You may consider features like battery life or processor speed. A lot of people make considerations for the camera of their potential smartphone purchase. As a computer in our pocket, the smartphone has rendered many other gadgets useless. One of those devices is the point-and-shoot camera. Our phones have now become our primary photo-taking and video shooting tools.
Perhaps this evolution of consumer behavior is why improvements to the camera are the focal point of every new smartphone announcement regardless of manufacturer. Capturing life’s moments has become the stock and trade of the modern smartphone. And despite how far we have come in mobile photography, there is much more to be accomplished. Smartphone cameras have notoriously been chronically poor at capturing subjects with darker skin tones, creating inaccurate results and washed out facial features. This has been rampant yet underemphasized. With the advent of AI and Machine Learning photography, Google and Apple are attempting to change this reality.
