In The Era Of The Connected Camera, The Point & Shoot Commits Seppuku

The big brand camera companies are committing seppuku in front of our eyes. It's fascinating. Last week, I bought a brand new Canon S95 camera. It's a great point & shoot. Maybe the best out there right now. It captures beautiful 10-megapixel images. It's great in low-light. It's fast. And it shoots HD video. I anticipate I'll take about 5 percent of my pictures with it in the coming year. The other 95 percent will be taken with my iPhone. How do I know? Because I had the S90 last year and that was my exact usage pattern. Obviously, the 10-megapixel, $400 S95 is the superior camera when compared to the 5-megapixel, $200 (with subsidy) iPhone 4. But the fact that I always have my phone on me easily trumps the specs. But to me, there's actually something other than just the portability factor that leads to my usage being so heavily skewed towards the iPhone: connectivity.