Long before Apple put a terrible camera in the iPhone, it put a terrible camera into a camera: The 0.3-megapixel (640 x 480) Apple QuickTake. The camera had no way to focus, and zooming was done by walking closer to your subject. Neither could you blast away like we do with the digicams of today: The QuickTake 100, built by Kodak, could fit just eight pictures into its 1-MB memory.
The problem was that the market was immature, and the QuickTake was one of the first consumer digicams on the market. Compare this to the successful strategy of Apple since the iPod: Wait until the market has been established, then make a simpler, better product than anyone else.
Mines been lying in the loft, it’s now my 7 year olds latest toy.
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