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cyberax11/04/20254 repliesview on HN

Camera makers: please just use Android and allow us to sync photos automatically.


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numpad011/04/2025

First part hell no second part hell yeah. I wouldn't want to deal with current equivalent of Android 2.3 or 4.0.4 or eMMC failures or 5 minute bootup delay from battery insertion to first shutters with high end $1.5k cameras.

What's needed is USB-C host on iPhone. Then USB MTP or MSC to extract and upload. Which, is arguably already there. I think what's really missing is iOS/Android side willingness to ingest offline files.

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kalaksi11/04/2025

You don't need Android for that (thank god).

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Jaxan11/04/2025

There were cameras with FTP or WebDAV support, when connected to WiFi. I guess it’s just not really popular?

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fennecbutt11/04/2025

Ironically, Android started as a DSLR OS.