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They came back a few days later to say yes they were autistic.

Some information coming out of the antitrust lawsuit against Google:

"Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution. If you don’t get the results you want, and you try to refine your query, you are wasting your time. This is a twisted shopping mall you can’t escape.

Why would Google want to do this? First, the generated results to the latter query are more likely to be shopping-oriented, triggering your subsequent behavior much like the candy display at a grocery store’s checkout. Second, that latter query will automatically generate the keyword ads placed on the search engine results page by stores like TJ Maxx, which pay Google every time you click on them. In short, it's a guaranteed way to line Google’s pockets."

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

Read my whole review, all 5,000 words of it, here: http://lux.camera/iphone-15-pro-max-review

These photos were taken w/ Halide and the stock camera app in ProRAW & native RAW. We have a big update out that lets you use the Action button in a neat way, too. ➡️ @halide

Thanks for reading!

Me? I’m left a bit frustrated: Apple doesn’t let us devs use what makes this phone so great (24MP capture, special binning modes, night mode). I’m really being humbled by the creative challenge of a 120mm lens.

But I’m cheering for how meaningful the progress is this year.

Apple will have to prove the worth of virtual lenses to me—and I do miss a physical 2× or 3× lens. But you can’t deny that this iPhone upgrade is one focused on depth, instead of spec sheets or gimmicks.

The camera experience for everyone is meaningfully upgraded.

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And it's only that sound.

Where does that leave the pros? Well, we are left to enjoy the long tail.

It’s got a proper camera button now*. It’s nicer to hold. USB-C video output, ProRes Log. And a has a lens that will really make you work hard for a great composition.

* sort of

And that’s coming from an iPhone 14 Pro, mind you. Nobody upgrades their phone every year.

You’d get an iPhone that suddenly does all things camera WAY better. Not just on paper — in practice. Zoom out of an airplane window? Here, individual trees.

#fédichat La preuve qu’un chat est liquide.

I’m a big camera nerd. I shoot with @halide, ProRAW, the works. I was snapping 48MP shots for a year.

Most users didn’t. What they’ll see:

- Going from 12 to 24 megapixel for all their shots
- Effectively doubling their zoom range
- Portrait mode is basically always-on

Detroit’s Mark Twain Library, which was closed in 1996 for renovations and never reopened.

📷© Vintage American Photographs

#archaeohistories

I realize that might sound a bit loopy.

On paper, isn’t this the same hardware as last year’s iPhone 14 Pro? It gets a new telephoto lens and that’s it, surely?

On paper, sure. But iPhone cameras are all about all the parts integrated into one greater whole.

I think the iPhone 15 Pro is probably the biggest step forward in iPhone photography for most users since the addition of a second camera in the iPhone 7 Plus.

I think the iPhone 15 Pro is probably the biggest step forward in iPhone photography for most users since the addition of a second camera in the iPhone 7 Plus.

iPhone 15 Pro: the shots. A thread.