Must have tools...

The new technology, I guess !! I feel happy with my pocket cameras (Canon and Cookpix) but sometimes I use my ipad also !!!

Ultimately this is nothing new ;-)

I once had Pentax Auto 110, and that was sort of an amazing innovation!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_Auto_110
Bad image quality of course, but still.

...creates goosebumps ... somehow ;-))

Ha ha ha! =D

I wonder why(?) =)

I just have a dumb phone that makes phone calls !

......oh and next to no cell phone service in the rural area I live. !

I usually edit and share my mobile phone shots at home or at some other place where I have WLAN connection. Although, here in Finland we do have very good 4G network.

The point is to have a good enough pocket camera all the time and everywhere. Very similar idea as what Kodak Eastman introduced already in late 19th century ;-)

Simple pocket cameras are more or less obsolete now because smartphones can do it better. I still haven't got a smartphone though, I wonder how long I can hold off...;-)

Optical zoom still is the advantage where especially so called "1" sensor cameras" can compete. But what is the real advantage on smartphones are all the extra one can do with them.

For example I warmly recommend trying Snapseed editing application on a smartphone ;-) It turns also editing mobile and fun, and that software also keeps EXIF, which for me is an important feature.

Modern day photography is no longer "living in the past and memories". It is about being global and right now, or at least within last 24 hours.

"Right now" is something that's quite beyond me when I shoot RAW- I have to download and run the photo through Lightroom which I couldn't do on the hoof. That's where smartphones come in, of course. The whole concept and aesthetics are different from old fashioned photography.

Well, shooting RAW for much better quality is also a good reason why "real cameras" are still a better option for any "more serious" photography. And of course bigger sensors also makes it possible to do million things more and better than any pathetically tiny smartphone camera sensor can do.