It's not just Reg readers who recognize the less than satisfactory quality of built-in computer webcams. Appparently, the world's biggest PC maker does too.
The work-from-home revolution thrust upon much of the world in 2020 forced us to stay in contact remotely, so Zoom, Teams, WebEx, and others became the medium used to keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues. This reporter has a face for radio so the preference was to keep it turned off, but as we all know, sometimes that just isn't an option. This rich topic of the generally-crap state of built-in webcams reared its ugly head at this week's Canalys Channels Forum in Barcelona when Steve Brazier, CEO at the market watcher, got straight to the point with the Lenovo exec on stage: "Why is it that PCs have such lousy webcams?"
"It's a good question," said Luca Rossi, enterprise vice president and president of the Intelligent Devices Group, and all-around good sport. "I think the simple answer is that until before COVID, nobody was even asking how many megapixels [does] your internal camera [have], the face front camera. In phones, obviously, we know this is very important for selfies."
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