© Apple

What if, sud­denly the world go around, and peo­ple start to think that our cam­era should be capa­ble of play­ing music, albeit from the mem­ory card, or stream your iTunes from your iPods?

What if, sud­denly, cam­era engi­neers finally fig­ure out how to inte­grate a multi-touch full body dis­play at the back of your cam­era and design a highly usable cam­era inter­face, just like your iPhones/iPod Touch, and — for god’s sake — rea­son­able enough to open the cook­book and let peo­ple develop apps on it — just like your iPhones/iPod Touch?

The prob­lem is, the other side is doing such a great job at those, and have already accom­plish all that, at the same time, slowly imple­ment­ing highly use­ful cam­era tech­nol­ogy and fea­tures into their cam… (oops, I mean) iPhones & iPod Touches.

That other side if of course none other than Mr. Steve Jobs & The Apple Design & Engineering team, and our side is none other than the obscure anony­mous folks with no names and no faces to credit too.

In just a few months time after they first revealed their next gen­er­a­tion, 5-megapixel, back­lit sen­sor iPhone 4 cam­era sys­tem, they announced today that their next ver­sion of the iOS soft­ware 4.1 will include an HDR fea­ture, directly built into their cam­era app.

Now, let’s savor this moment and allow us to think, what, in recent time that our dear Canon, Nikon, Leica, Olympus & many other imag­ing giants have done even so much as a built-in HDR fea­ture? Let alone the multi-touch dis­play thing, I’d set­tle for just an easy-to-use but­ton lay­out & soft­ware oper­a­tion inter­face. If they really think they can’t do it, they might as well con­sider mak­ing an iOS app and an iPhone/iPod Touch dock inter­face at the back of the cam­era and let us just enjoy tak­ing pic­tures again.

Right now, my iPhone is prac­ti­cally a bet­ter cam­era than my EOS. I’d like to see it change.