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[Who on earth needs a 48 megapixel camera???]

Who on earth needs more than 64K of RAM or 2 5-1/4” floppy drives? Apple and Samsung have provided a massive price umbrella for hungrier, scrappier competitors. The $800 smartphone may soon join the ranks of $1500 personal computers and $200 DVD players - a real relic of a price point except for perhaps 1% of the entire product market.

I understand that the knee-jerk response to people scoffing at this is who needs more than 64K RAM, 128K floppies, etc? But is that really analogous? Continuous, incremental improvements in PC memory and storage added so many new features that most users now take for granted, e.g., multimedia capabilities, video playback & editing, photoshop, etc. Does getting up to some huge megapixel level benefit the typical smartphone user snapping photos of Disneyland or his kid’s basketball game? I don’t think they’re shooting the Hollywood’s next blockbuster superhero movie on a Xiaomi phone. Can you tell the difference between a 48 megapixel photo and a 24 megapixel photo? I sure as heck can’t.