The Verge:
Well you did it, mean-spirited internet humans. Tim Cook has deleted the Super Bowl picture that sent Twitter into a tizzy on Sunday night. As the Denver Broncos celebrated their Super Bowl 50 victory, Apple’s CEO made his way onto the field and took a photo of all the excitement (and confetti). He uploaded it to Twitter with a message congratulating the Super Bowl champs.
Now, either Cook didn’t take much time to review his shot or he just didn’t care, but it was a very blurry snapshot of what must’ve been a thrilling moment. Although he took a second, far better shot minutes later, the damage was already done — and the mockery and ridicule came flying. There were too many “Shot with iPhone” jokes to count.
There are several lessons here: Always check your photos before posting. The internet never forgets. Anyone can take good shots with the iPhone but anyone can take bad shots with it as well. And, if you’re the CEO of a company that makes cameras, make sure your shots are really good before you post them.
It’s like he’s human or something. How embarrassing for the rest of us, um, you know us, um…
Who gives a cat’s ass?
I disagree. It is ok that he posted a blurry photo. It is also ok that people made fun of it. If there’s a lesson to be learned, it is: Don’t let some jokes, whether they were intended as mean-spirited or not, whether you perceived them as mean-spirited or not, bother you.
Is there really no technology that can make it so a shot like that can’t be taken with an iPhone, though? The absolute worst problem a photo can have is to be out-of-focus. I feel like blaming the user is an antique idea. It belongs with a 2005 camera that didn’t have what is basically a 2016 PC strapped to it. If there is some ambiguity about the proper focus (as there can be in a shot like this of sporting action) why doesn’t the iPhone take 4 or 5 shots in succession with various focus settings and ask the user to choose the one that turned out?
At the very least, when you attempt to share a photo, can’t iPhone analyze it and say “this shot may be out of focus?”
“Is there really no technology that can make it so a shot like that can’t be taken with an iPhone, though?” I would hate that feature. A lot of creative ideas come from mistakes or things not intended.
But the sharing feature with suggestions is interesting.