原推:In 1997
For $1,000 in today’s dollars
0.3 megapixels
500 shot battery
2,900 cm^3
Data capture density: .05MB/cm^3
A 2019 iphone
For $1,000
Films 4k at 30fps for 24,000s before conking out
83 cm^3
Data capture density: 71,000MB/cm^3
A 1.4 million-fold improvement (90% per year) https://t.co/PEhR89wQwu
10 years before the iPhone, Sony released a floppy disk digital camera: https://t.co/kY52TXlLZq