abdou

co-founder of @moduresearch.

[Art Vandelay☘️ @Fab0o0o]

Ik the Suni Lee thing is a funny bit but what ACTUALLY got into bro this game…

Never moved like that before this game & hasn’t moved like this since🤔

[abdou @thatabdou]

.@SugaSeanMMA ur robot is wilding out

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A robot wearing a blue clown wig in China appeared to strike a young child with a spinning kick, causing the child to double over in pain.

[Malik @MalikMcYeet]

Greedy ass nigga got low battery mode on at 95%

[Speed⭐️ @ishowspeedsui]

WORLD CUP VIDEO OUT NOW!!!!⚽️

[abdou @thatabdou]

for someone who speaks with this much certainty, it’s weird that you don’t understand design vs manufacturing.

do you think they just slapped a sensor off-the-shelf into the phone? where is the firmware? where is the ISP? how does the image go from the device into the app?

if the zipper in a nike jacket is made by YKK, is that a YKK jacket? you sound dumb

[abdou @thatabdou]

@crazytina851 @cumpisshomosex @Cartidise this is incorrect. it’s being post-processed by the app, using an Apple format shot on an Apple sensor and processed using an Apple ISP.

i’m confused who you think makes the phone and the software that the app is built-on? hint: it’s still Apple my guy

[abdou @thatabdou]

to address your final point. users are much smarter than people give them credit for.

i think most people understand that if you put a different lens onto a camera you get different results. Apple’s campaigns have always featured a touch of “how far can we push the device”.

if they show a Macbook running Logic Pro in a multimillion dollar recording studio, they aren’t saying “if you buy this you can do this”. they’re saying “this is what’s possible with the same device”.

if you understand and love the technology, it’s easy to see how cool it is that we are now at the point where a phone can be used as the camera body for a broadcast setup. to say otherwise is to pretend that one can take a 2010 flip phone and attach it to the same lens with similar results.

the campaign is about progression of the hardware.

[abdou @thatabdou]

correct, but i’m confused how this pertains to the original debate?

the post OP responded to is talking about how the “shot on iPhone” campaign is highlighting the abilities of the camera and processor. and OP attempted to invalidate that by saying it was software based successes.

theo called it out, and i’m affirming that the software, hardware, and processing pipeline is still mandated by Apple regardless of third party extension.

where does the default iOS camera app come into this? it’s well known that an app built for a wide range of user expertise and shots needs to have more post-processing / configuration forgiveness than an app for professionals. i’d be extremely surprised if that wasn’t the case.

i’m sure you’re aware, but i’ll state this just in case anyone else is reading this far: the default camera is not a representation for the full range of the actual camera / pipeline itself. it’s just an app built on top of it. often times the two get confused a lot.

[abdou @thatabdou]

respectfully, “a lot of the modern processing happens in the camera app” is not correct.

can an iOS app tweak things like capture quality, exposure, focus, device selection, format, etc via AVFoundation? yes

can an app do their own post processing on “raw” capture data? yes, and apps like halide and blackmagic are great at that.

but neither of those two things remotely come close to having an effect on how the image gets captured / how the signals get processed. there is a incomparably massive amount of Apple hardware and software steps between the photons hitting the sensor, and the final “raw data” that gets surfaced to us at the app level. those steps are out of developer control (in the scope we are discussing which is iOS apps).

theo is correct in saying that the OP is way out of depth (pun-intended) with that response

[abdou @thatabdou]

@Cartidise @cumpisshomosex my job is making third-party camera apps. last time i checked… iOS apps have no direct access into the capture pipeline, they don’t write the ISP, and they definitely don’t override camera sensor firmware.

im genuinely curious what enabled you to confidently post such nonsense

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

Days Without Zionists Using Black People as Human Shields for their Nazi Agenda: 0

[abdou @thatabdou]

@benjamin_horne idea: get ice cream outside of lower manhattan

problem solved

[abdou @thatabdou]

@sierracatalina “2 weeks for the MVP”

[abdou @thatabdou]

hot (and probably incorrect) take: LLMs are fun to use because they have 0 baked-in concepts of time.

you could probably ask an LLM to help you build a dyson sphere.

would it succeed? no.

but will it work it’s little heart out attempting to do so? yes.

[abdou @thatabdou]

@lenne0816 🤣😭

[abdou @thatabdou]

okay so:

- Apple has Carl Zeiss
- Meta has Ray Bans and Oakley
- Google has Gentle Monster and Warby Parker

boring.

which company is gonna be bold enough to slap wearable technology into some 3M safety glasses

[HTHAZE @hthaze]

this this funny fuck you guys

[abdou @thatabdou]

@hellbetterthnsf amazing shot

[abdou @thatabdou]

@jonaswillett1 @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers will def check them out! just moved to another area of the city so gonna use it as an excuse to walk around and explore

[abdou @thatabdou]

@jonaswillett1 @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers all good. i rock with what you do, and please keep adding to the map. it’s fire 🤝🔥

[abdou @thatabdou]

@michaelmiraflor @jonaswillett1 yes it’s supposed to be an insult (sorry if that wasn’t clear). gatekeeping is wack.

thought experiment: ask yourself if the michelin guide was a net good or bad. and then interpolate from there to what we are discussing here.

enjoy the surf