Mit Statements von Ex-Mitarbeiter_innen ? insbesondere die, die nicht freiwillig den Job gewechselt haben ? muss man immer ein bisschen aufpassen. Nicht jeder zeigt rückblickend Klasse. Trotzdem glaube ich, das Ex-Google+-Chef Vic Gundotra am Wochenende schlicht falsch verstanden wurde.
Sein initialer Facebook-Post lautete:

The end of the DSLR for most people has already arrived. I left my professional camera at home and took these shots at dinner with my iPhone 7 using computational photography (portrait mode as Apple calls it). Hard not to call these results (in a restaurant, taken on a mobile phone with no flash) stunning. Great job Apple.

Darüber gibt es wenig zu diskutieren. Für Aufregung sorgten seine Kommentare unter dem Beitrag:
Here is the problem: It’s Android. Android is an open source (mostly) operating system that has to be neutral to all parties. This sounds good until you get into the details. Ever wonder why a Samsung phone has a confused and bewildering array of photo options" Should I use the Samsung Camera" Or the Android Camera" Samsung gallery or Google Photos"
It’s because when Samsung innovates with the underlying hardware (like a better camera) they have to convince Google to allow that innovation to be surfaced to other applications via the appropriate API. That can take YEARS.
Also the greatest innovation isn’t even happening at the hardware level – it’s happening at the computational...