MakeShift
I am finding that I am using my iPhone and IPad more to assist me with song writing. I tried carrying around a note pad for a while to quickly jot things down, but I found that when I needed it, I didn't have it with me. It seems like most of the phrases or lyrics that I use in my songs come to me when I am not really expecting them. Convenience is king, and having the ability to quickly voice record a sentence or phrase in the voice recorder or the notes section has saved many quick phrases that I would have normally lost before I could get to a scratch pad.

I am finding that I am using more of the song writing apps as well and the near rhyming apps in particular for assistance. I don't see more tools in the tool box as a problem and I have started to look for ways to use new technology to assist me in what I already do.

As far as cameras, I still love and use my DSLR Nikons. However, my iPhone has saved my butt on the occasion that I am not lugging the Nikon with me. I have been known to use both while shooting as well. I often slip in a shot with the iPhone while shooting with the Nikon. Sometimes it even comes out better. I guess I never had any issues with clinging to old technology or old cars.

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sharke
Here's an example of my iPhone 4S camera at work - a quick indoor snap taken of a sphinx cat. There was just one lamp on in the room. OK so it's not professional quality, but for a quick indoor shot taken on a phone (I didn't even try and hold the camera steady), I think it's pretty good. At the very least, it's infinitely better than any of the indoor family snaps that were taken on film cameras of a similar price range when I was growing up 
 

You have a sphinx?!! I so want one of these. 
 
When and where I grew up, these were the kind of cameras you'd see most of the time.

 
Considering that that's what the iPhone's camera replaces, there isn't much to be said against its quality...

mixmkr
I don't think there is anything wrong with Cake sticking another iron in the fire, as long as it doesn't compromise any other iron....which I highly doubt it will. Regarding the phone thingie... I love having a couple of extra features on the phone, as I use it at work all the time.  I can take a picture and email it to a customer, hold the camera on the backside of an item and get a serial number I couldn't see, and as a quickie reference pad, and on and on.... oh the free little flashlight too, use the heck out of that.  Using it for the internet sucks. Too bad the current generation doesn't see those features and puts 2500 pics of selfies on FaceBook instead.Unfortunately, I see too many 45 yr old females, MARRIED, doing the same  :-(