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I think you missed the point when you compared a $4000 laptop to a phone that tops out at $1,500 (which actually comes with 4 cameras)

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In that case why don’t they have a back facing camera with three lenses and a flash just in case someone wants to take a picture on vacation with their MacBooks? I guess they should also have an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a gps chip just in case I need to use it for directions....

cause they want them to buy an iPhone as well, and iCloud sync to the MacBook.

That’s the only reason not to have a gyroscope on your laptop?

For $4000, it should be waterproof and come with a bodysuit for surfing the web, WHILE I'm surfing in the ocean. It's all related stuff.

I guess this is more a rhetorical question as taking pictures with a back facing camera is an extreme^10 edge case while doing video calls with the FaceTime camera for most users is a daily or at least weekly occurrence.

It’s not that I don’t think the criticism is valid about the camera, it’s just the idea of saying it should have the same hardware as a phone

Why not? Apple sells ~200M iPhones a year, so they already are ordering millions of FaceTime cameras for the iPhones. Why not buy 10M more of the same model and put them in the MacBooks?

Not at all. A laptop and a phone have different needs. I’m never, and I truly mean never, going to use a laptop to take a quality photo.

Why should Apple put a top of the line camera on it? Is the new Mac Pro worth less because it doesn’t have a camera at all?

Just to be clear, I don't think Apple should put a back facing camera into their laptops. However, they should consider updating the FaceTime camera as it is regularly used by most people.

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