The 2006 article saying phones would kill cameras aged poorly when I went to Yosemite

I keep a stack of old tech mags in my garage for laughs. Last week I found a 2006 piece claiming by 2015 nobody would carry a separate camera. Then I remembered my trip to Yosemite in 2015. I brought my Canon T3i AND my flip phone for calls. Everyone in my group did the same. The article said phone cameras would get 'good enough'. Well, good enough for what, texting a blurry elk? My 34 shots from that trip still hang in my office. My phone pics from the same trip look like wet paper. So who was right? The article or the people who brought both anyway? Anyone else keep gear an old article said was doomed?

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lee.cole10d ago

My buddy Rick still brings his old Nikon D90 on every camping trip, even after his phone got that fancy 48 megapixel sensor. Two years ago we were at Glacier and he dropped his phone face down on a rock, screen shattered to hell. But his D90 was fine and he got this insane shot of a mountain goat that he now has printed on a massive canvas in his living room. The phone companies sold us on convenience, but they didn't sell us on durability or actually caring about the photo. That 2006 article was right about one thing though, we stopped caring about carrying around a pocket camera, we just never stopped carrying a big one.