Anders_ASUS
It has to be emphasized that we have nothing to do with Gcam. You can't expect it to always run perfectly because it's not a supported software. It's all up to the port developers to make it work when they feel like it. We haven't blocked anything and we're not allowed to actively trying to make this software work with our phones. It has to be done by people who have nothing to do with our organization.
The comparisons between our software and Googles are not fair. Everyone know that Google are the best when it comes to camera software for phones. It would be much more interesting to see comparisons to similar prized phones, both running stock camera software. Then we may talk.
If you want to find out how to run a stable GCam on your ZenFone 6 with Android 10, then you need to talk to the port developers. I know that it works. It's all i can say.
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Read the whole thing, would you?
I know that other manufacturers are stepping over the legal line to help GCam ports, those manufacturers are based in China where copyright rule is like air and I get that ASUS can't afford to get into legal trouble. This is something I understand, but...
I would like to remind to you that breaking GCam with Android update with no good reason is like updating Python from 3.7 to 3.7.1 with no major feature changes and suddenly all the libraries won't work and Python rep comes out saying that the libraries are not made by Python so no support. A good example of software upgrade done well is Python 2 to 3. Sure, as in this GCam situation, thing are not backwards compatible, like print 1 in Python 2 and print(1) in Python 3. Python never ported one library from 2 to 3, but the are not crossing their arms doing nothing and defending with their mouth.
Let's compare Python 2 to 3 with ASUS Android 9 to 10 (in terms of GCam situation), don't mind if I point out the facts.
Feature upgrades: Python Yes ASUS No
Software that is broken: Python third-party ASUS third-party
Software that was fixed by first party: Python none ASUS none
Saying it is not their fault: Python No ASUS Yes
Breaking backwards compatibility without warning: Python No ASUS Yes
Summary | Feeling of end user: Python Good ASUS Not-so-good
(Feel free to argue that this is not the case besides GCam. This shows the split personalities towards first-party stuff and third-party stuff)
Telling us that GCam excels than stock camera so it is not a fair comparison, so compare with other phones with stock camera is like if Python breaks matplotlib in updates then says of course matplotlib plots better graph with inbuilt print() function so should compare Python's print() with C's println()
May we now compare Python with ASUS once again to drive my point home
Third-party software superior to first-party: Python Yes ASUS Yes
Allow the use of third-party software: Python Yes ASUS Tacitly-no
Blaming the comparison for not fair: Python No ASUS Yes
Summary | Feeling of end user: Python Good ASUS Not-so-good
(I am a hobbyist programmer in Python and C, and if you don't know the terms wiki them. I believe only making such analogies can we make the mods realize how they must change to have a better image in everyone's eyes, after all, a mod commenting with the content basically a GTFO will certainly not be a good sign. I am always open for further discussion / debates.)
