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by ustolemyname 1120 days ago
Few people have screens as high resolution as even a mediocre phone camera.

Before someone brings up future screen tech, there are additional reasons that's not a trivial workaround. Additionally there's a higher benefit to having high resolution cameras which have a wide field of view and the user may want to zoom in on the physical data vs a screen where the zooming happens in software.