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If I had to bet my own money on what really happened, I'd guess that it's something along these lines:
DEVELOPER: Camera initialization is adding 200ms to app startup
TECH LEAD: Holy crap! We need total startup to be less than 500ms or users start to think things are slow
DEVELOPER: What if we initialize the camera early?
TECH LEAD: Can you do that without recording? It would be very bad if we were recording things.
DEVELOPER: Yes.
TECH LEAD: Do it.
Conspiracy ensues.
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If I had to bet my own money on what really happened, I'd guess that it's something along these lines:
DEVELOPER: Camera initialization is adding 200ms to app startup
TECH LEAD: Holy crap! We need total startup to be less than 500ms or users start to think things are slow
DEVELOPER: What if we initialize the camera early?
TECH LEAD: Can you do that without recording? It would be very bad if we were recording things.
DEVELOPER: Yes.
TECH LEAD: Do it.
Conspiracy ensues.