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Why Your Laptop Webcam Is Still a Piece of Junk

Thinner isn’t always better for computers

Owen Williams
OneZero
Published in
4 min readJul 7, 2020

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Webcams have been around for more than three decades, but as the cameras in our phones have become near-perfect, the ones in our laptops seem stuck in time: They’re mostly terrible and don’t seem to be getting any better.

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Owen Williams
OneZero

Fascinated by how code and design is shaping the world. I write about the why behind tech news. Design Manager in Tech. https://twitter.com/ow