OK let me qualify the above statement before I get hung drawn and quartered
1) I'm not in any way trying to lessen your abilities as a photographer Pete (I know you haven't said that but Bamba's kind of getting there), I appreciate that the skill of a photographer is far more than just the camera he's using.
2) Good cameras do take better pictures though, in a wider range of circumstances. Certainly some of the pics on your flickr site just couldn't have been taken with a shit camera or a smartphone's camera (remember I'm looking at them at on a high quality 2560x1440 screen that's been properly calibrated).
3) That's not to say that 'inferior' cameras can't take good pictures, and I didn't say that they couldn't
4) From a personal perspective, me and Mrs AE have a massive photo album charting the last 7 1/2 years since AE Jnr was born, and that collection encompasses a wide range of devices, from a half-decent DSLR to relatively crappy earlyish camera phones etc. (And it's not just pictures of AE Jnr, as tends to be the case when you start taking more pictures, you start taking pictures of lots more things, so we've got a massive range of photos from all over the island.)
What's stood out to me is that, in the round, even rank amateurs like us have a better chance of capturing a really 'good' shot (in both the sense of it being a 'good picture' but also technically excellent) with a proper camera, especially in challenging circumstances.
(That said, there's a one picture in particular that Mrs AE took on her last phone (a crappy low end Sony jobby that she liked more than anything just 'cause it was small and easy to use) that's magical, with AE Jnr framed against the backdrop of the local park on a crap day with a rainbow in the background spanning out into the hills - it's not a high quality picture in a technical sense (grainy, fuzzy, exposure not great etc) but as a picture to look at, it's wondrous little slice of time.)
But that's something of a special case, generally speaking the best pictures we've taken have been on the more capable devices, just because they're better at what they do since they're designed to be cameras and therefore be good at taking pictures above everything else.
In summary, I'd say my point was that it'd be a shame for a generation to think that cameras are what are built into phones and that's all there is to it, in the same way that it'd be a shame if folks never appreciated that music doesn't have to sound like low bitrate MP3s.