IPhone: Why so many photo apps?

I'm confused by Apple's logic for organising photos on the iPhone. I use an iPhone, a mac and MobileMe. What I would intuitively like to do is to capture photos on the iPhone 4 camera and have these sync to an album on MobileMe, then later iPhoto could pull down the photos from MobileMe. At the moment if I take a photo it goes in the camera roll. I can then send to MobileMe, but there is no subsequent indication of which photos in the camera roll have been uploaded. So I need to go to the gallery app and check. Then when I sync with the mac the photos get backed up to iTunes, but I have to open iPhoto in order to sync to that program. Then I need to sync iPhoto to MobileMe to get the files there. There is also no easy way to get all my photos onto MobileMe from iPhoto.
Why can't Apple just have the camera app and inside that arrange photos by date, with an indicator showing if the file has been saved to MobileMe, Flick or Facebook? Having a camera, photo and gallery app seems unnecessary, even for people who don't use MobileMe.
Am I missing something? Is there a better approach?

Thanks for the reminder, I've posted the feedback. I take it you agree with me and have no better solution? It's one of my pet peeves along with Apple's confusing variations for MobileMe/Apple ID logins: Some services want just the username and others want the whole email.

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