You couldn’t offload and use the refocus feature without their software and 4MP was half what smartphones were doing in 2012 (rapidly increasing above 8MP after that). Fixed lens so you couldn’t improve the image quality with glass - that’s totally understandable given the product but it is still a limitation to the visual quality.
That’s a bad recipe for casual and professional users alike. Can’t ingest into your workflow quickly, images are low res, can’t improve the image, and your smartphone was better just missing one, admittedly neat, feature. If that existed in phones people would use it like crazy I imagine.
Too narrow of a use case IMO, too many compromises for one feature, hence why it failed.
The image(s) were also trash unfortunately and a PITA to process. Barely usable even in ideal circumstances.
eh??
Processing was as simple as "click on the thing you want in focus". and 4MP was just fine for casual use it was targetting
You couldn’t offload and use the refocus feature without their software and 4MP was half what smartphones were doing in 2012 (rapidly increasing above 8MP after that). Fixed lens so you couldn’t improve the image quality with glass - that’s totally understandable given the product but it is still a limitation to the visual quality.
That’s a bad recipe for casual and professional users alike. Can’t ingest into your workflow quickly, images are low res, can’t improve the image, and your smartphone was better just missing one, admittedly neat, feature. If that existed in phones people would use it like crazy I imagine.
Too narrow of a use case IMO, too many compromises for one feature, hence why it failed.