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'Posterity' is a stretch? Snapchat would dispute that.

In fact, if a phone really wanted to take good pictures (and not just market 'megapixels') they'd have focus, light balance, shutter speed controls. About all they can do is take still portraits.

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Snapchat is a terrible example; they don't actually use the camera to take pictures, they just take a screenshot of the camera on-screen view.

https://www.techjunkie.com/snapchat-compress-photo-quality/

...and that's how people use their phone cameras. Very low-quality; very temporary.

Not everyone.

Snapchat has 170M daily users as of 2019.

And how many daily users do you think the Camera app has?

189 Million

That’s the estimated US iPhone install base. Apple said it was above 900M globally in January.

Not surprisingly so if you've worked with Android's Camera(2) APIs

> if a phone really wanted to take good pictures (and not just market 'megapixels') they'd have focus, light balance, shutter speed controls

Any high-end smartphone can manually control the focus, white balance, shutter speed and shoot RAW. On the iPhone you need a third-party app to access it, but plenty of Android devices include that in their default camera.

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