> exclusively for the Mac
Come on. I wanted a tiny long-battery-life timelapse camera, but this is a dealbreaker. Why do people do this to themselves? Out of all platforms Mac is the least backwards-compatible. I checked that this software is not open-source; in the absence of other means of data transfer this camera is bound to become e-waste at some point in the not-so-distant future.
I'm 100% with you on e-waste -- I hate that we throw out so much of our tech so quickly. (I used my 2016 iPhone SE as my main phone until last year haha.) My plan is to document as much of this thing as I can, including open-sourcing most (all?) of it. I've started small with open sourcing the embedded scheduler:
https://toaster.llc/blog/scheduler/
FWIW I focused on the Mac to begin with because it's what I use and love, and this thing took long enough to make even with that constraint.
But otherwise if there's going to be a commandline Linux tool, that's most bang for a buck. Others can build upon it.