Ouch! A former Google exec just dissed Android photography big time

Android phones might have larger screens, bigger batteries, and headphone jacks, but there's one thing the iPhone has going for it that's consistent every year: better cameras.

It's not just Apple fans that thinks so, either. In a post shared on Facebook, ex-Google SVP of Social Vic Gundotra declared the iPhone 7 Plus's photos taken with its Portrait mode "stunning" and the "end of the DSLR for most people." He then blamed Android's open source design for its photography shortcomings. Ouch.

The iPhone 7 Plus's Portrait mode is really impressive — the dual cameras and image signal processor crunch billions of computations on each photo where the "depth effect" is applied — but Android phones like the Galaxy S8 and Google Pixel have caught up in other ways. Hell, the OnePlus 5 even apes the iPhone 7 Plus's dual cameras and Portrait mode. Read more...