This made me think of the story about SnappyCam, whose author handcrafted a JPEG encoder in Arm NEON assembly to enable iPhones to capture still images at 20fps

This made me think of the story about SnappyCam, whose author handcrafted a JPEG encoder in Arm NEON assembly to enable iPhones to capture still images at 20fps on the iPhone5 (before burst mode was a thing in iOS), and was subsequently acqui-hired by Apple: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/06/apple-buys-iphone-camera-app-snappycam-and-gets-australian-algorithms-whiz https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/06/apple-buy... https://newatlas.com/snappycam-iphone-app/28558/ https://newatlas.com/snappycam-iphone-app/28558/