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Accidental Tech Podcast

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Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2013

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to be a good connector designer.

0:03.1

Do we have anything to talk about tonight?

0:05.3

I don't know, I guess.

0:06.2

I mean, there were new iPhones and stuff, but it's really funny how unsurprising it was.

0:11.3

Even even the parts that we expected to be surprised by we were wrong.

0:17.0

Actually, so I guess therefore it was surprising in those ways.

0:21.3

And I thought the camera stuff was mildly surprising.

0:23.7

I hadn't heard anything about that.

0:25.0

Obviously it's to be expected that there will be better, newer, faster camera things.

0:31.2

But I didn't know the magnitude of it all.

0:33.8

And I don't think anyone did.

0:35.1

And it seems pretty compelling.

0:37.0

That's because it wasn't like really camera hardware.

0:39.8

So much as it was applying even more software to the camera problem.

0:44.9

Because I mean, there is a point of

0:49.1

diminishing returns with camera hardware and phones because, you know, optically speaking,

0:53.2

you only have so much room to work with there, right?

0:55.6

But if the computing power keeps, you know, going up and up,

0:59.6

okay, let's do something with that.

1:01.0

That may be the better place to get benefit from it.

1:03.4

And that seems like it's what it is.

1:05.0

And that's why we wouldn't have heard about that or thought about that.

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