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Subscription to the camera on your own phone, capped # of photos per week and only basic adjustment/editing features for the entry tier.

User serviceability is intentionally not a focal point especially when it comes to anything a person has to use day to day. Any kind of tool or appliance- and especially electronic devices, forget about it. Luckily there are off the beaten path companies like framework and fairphone, but these are hard to market to regular joes and some are unavailable in a lot of regions.

Tech enthusiasts like presumably a lot of this comment section is are lucky there's at least something out there.

Dey took 'er jerbs!!

They killed his dawg

They ...

One must recognize that if those changes were truly not popular they would not have stuck.

Making them increasingly difficult to hold ("but design!" They cry) so you "accidently" have to buy a new one again.

1. If this hasn't been done already, being able to unlock the bootloader
2. Adding "AI" integrated into the OS with vague benefits even though the processing is done on the cloud (like Windows) just so the OEM can spy on you better
3. Forced volume limiters: The phone won't let you stay at max volume for more than 5 minutes a day, even if connected to a BT device set at substantially under max volume
4. Making it take more clicks to disable Internet, Bluetooth, other connected features
5. DRM built into Android itself
6. Being able to sideload
7. Ads within the OS

All of these are already on their way to being implemented:

1. Already the case with the vast majority of phones
2. Pixels already have this. Samsung is focusing on this in 2024. Several Chinese OEMs already have some version of this.
3. This was an idea Google attempted to implement in Android 14. Seems like it didn't go through that year, but there's always this year.
4. Google already made it harder to do this in Android 12. Apple also does this with the toggles only disabling WiFi/BT until tomorrow. Other OEMs are good for now.
5. After widespread disdain for Google's Web Environment Integrity BS, Google is quietly pivoting to this stupid change.
6. Google is now making it harder to do this on all Android phones. Now, you can only sideload apps targeting an Android version at most 8 behind the current one. This disables lots of little FOSS projects that were light on system resources.
7. Most Chinese OEMs already do this, although you can usually turn it off. Samsung used to do this, but backpedaled. Also bloatware exists.

If you want the good camera, you need to get the giant version of the phone.

If you want a phone that fits in human hands, you can only choose from subpar cameras.

80 cameras and nothing to do and no where to go

I don't use the ultra wide camera but I absolutely use the telephoto camera

My phone has two cameras. I hardly use 1.