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 FACT: The iPhone camera app is getting too complicated, with prefs, settings, mental calculations all over the place. 
 @c3f6e3f1 Not sure how you’d do it but Calculator is nice and simple until you put it into Scientific mode by rotating the device. 
 @c3f6e3f1 I prefer being able to ignore too many options than to not be able to find them at all, which seemed to be the playbook during Jonny Ive’s reign.

‘Oh, it’s complicated? Make it undiscoverable!’ 
 @c3f6e3f1 The stunning photographs you can now achieve using those settings used to cost me thousands to achieve - both hardware and software. I use all the settings but my wife uses none of them. Now that’s just how it should be no?