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KitKat should have included camera optimizations

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A longtime sore spot of Android devices has been the camera. For years now, people have lamented the fact that the images produced by Android devices haven’t quite stood up to some of their competitors. Don’t get me wrong, I think that what Google did with KitKat is great. The optimizations for lower-end devices without much RAM are something that will be extremely beneficial to the operating system. But the chink in the armor of Android devices has long been the camera experience. Even the new Google Play editions of devices have had the same camera problems. But now that we’ve just been introduced to the 14th (unless you count some of the really incremental updates) version of Android, it’s high time that Google worked on some camera optimizations. The camera experience problem certainly isn’t with the hardware. We’ve seen the same hardware capture incredible shots on devices that run a skinned version of Android. The problem comes with the software. More specifically, with stock And