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Comment by Perz1val

8 hours ago

Then they deserve you taking a photo with a second phone

Well, I did, after the fact, but it's only because I had a work phone on me (that doesn't yet actively block sharing to non-work devices).

I doubt most people have a second phone on hand, ready and able to capture actual screen shots when your phone is preventing screenhots.

There might be a market for a USB-C camera to take phone screen photos to immediately upload back into the phone.

  • Yeah, few moments ago it hit me there could be a market for a phone case with in-built camera(s) that photograph your screen at a shallow angle on demand, and transform that into a screenshot automatically.

    However, my idea happens to hit a very new limitation: for some reason, "privacy filters" are suddenly a thing. New phones have them built-in as some new magic display function, and for everyone else, there's this mad marketing push to get people to buy and use privacy foils in place of glass/foil screen protectors.

    IDK what's up with those. Since when "shoulder surfing" with smartphones is a real problem, and why do marketers and product designers bet there's so much latent demand for it?