Better local integration would also be useful. (Axis cameras have supported writing (and recycling) video on a local SMB share for a very long time, with nothing special required on the back end -- but they're not consumer products).
Improved image quality would also be useful. There always seems to be a certain softness and definite lack of fluidity in consumer cameras that has been solved in things like cheap smartphones and GoPros for a over a decade.
Tight integration with local home automation systems like Home Assistant would be great, so I can observe and control all of the things from a central point using my pocket supercomputer.
But otherwise: If all one wants from a camera is for it to take OK-ish pictures and send them down the pipe, then that's a reasonably-solved problem.
At home, I don't use Apple Home or SmartThings. It is unlikely that I ever will.
I own an iPad that I use every day and my phone is a Samsung, but I already have already adopted enough ecosystems with Google Home, Alexa, and Home Assistant, and I'm working on minimizing or eliminating two of those because they're clown-based.
But I am a geek that likes to tinker with electronics and software. I recognize that I am an outlier.
But I will cheerfully pay extra for stuff that Just Works with Home Assistant without using the clown, and that would probably apply to cameras as well.
I was wondering if that's already available or not.
What I meant when I said there's very little real innovation is exactly that - the fundamentals are good enough (and have been for a few years), and the bulk of product innovation is in how to make cameras smart with AI - which only makes them slower. I like my cameras dumb and fast.