Comment by binarymax
7 months ago
If they owned the digital camera space like they should have, who’s to say they wouldn’t have eventually released a smartphone. It probably would have been an absolutely incredible camera first, and some mobile internet and phone features second.
One can really dream up a fascinating alternate timeline of iKodak if they didnt shoot themselves in the foot.
And even if they didn’t, maybe it would be Kodak sensors in iPhones instead of Sony sensors. A lot of possibilities.
Note that Nokia was already "great camera, first smartphones".
Sony did a rather short-lived modular camera phone.
It had a magnetic mount, where you could snap on external lenses.
I'm pretty sure they still have some variant of the concept, except that it's an external camera that uses your phone as a viewfinder.