Camera control button making its way to three new Android manufacturers

Lastly, Nubia president Ni Fei made a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo where he teased an upcoming phone. This phone will apparently feature AI, a better screen and, you guessed it, a camera button.

I said before that the camera control button was being “copied”, something lots of people took offense to. Apple is certainly not the first company releasing a phone featuring a camera button, but what precisely this camera button does is somewhat new.

Other phones have had similar buttons in the past but they didn’t see competing brands rush to introduce their own versions of those buttons. Apple, perhaps on account of being such a massive corporation, often sets trends in the industry without even meaning to.

The VR industry, for example, picked up the pace once Apple Vision Pro came out. Former Oculus CTO Hugo Barra said that he used to joke that Apple entering the VR industry would be the best possible thing for VR’s growth.

The same seems to be the case with the phone industry. You might hate the iPhone with a passion and you might wish for Apple to go bankrupt but you can’t deny that other brands rush to mimic the company whenever they can. Something that hasn’t always turned out for the better: I hate the notch and I dearly miss the headphone jack.

And like I said before, all the more power to them. Not everyone can afford an iPhone for a gimmick they might be interested in. And that’s precisely what the camera control button is in my opinion: a gimmick not worth the upgrade from iPhone 15.