My understanding is that really raw phone data also have a lot of lens distortion, and proprietary code written by the camera brand has specific algorithms to undo that effect. And this is the part that phone tinkerers complain is not open source (well, it does lots of other things to the camera too).

Frankenstein all the way, you just have to continuously build from whatever part is cheap at the moment.

I moved to qobus. It’s not owned by untied states capital.

when discussing when China could catch up to the US in the semiconductor race.

BS. Untied states are not competitive at all for a long time. They should say China is catching up with Taiwan.

And it’s not a race, there’s no finish line, improvements have been happening for 50 years now and can continue for decades.