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I am having trouble following your thoughts on reasons. > They buy a phone because it has a higher resolution screen and then run it in low-res because that's

I am having trouble following your thoughts on reasons. > They buy a phone because it has a higher resolution screen and then run it in low-res because that's the default and they don't know the difference. ...neither do I. I have a generic Pixel 4a, $350 off the shelf phone, works great (really - it's nice). I've scoured for this setting, where is it located? I can't find a setting to change screen resolution available on my device, or even if it's possible. It looks great though just the way it is out of the box, I don't know the difference either. > Kids in California fail AP tests because they don't know what a file format is and try to submit HEIC images to a web form that only takes JPEG and PNG Apple dealt them this card - you're blaming people for not knowing that a single vendor has introduced a new (image) format by default which really, nobody else is dealing with (I guess?) the way Apple folks are; is it fair to lay this blame on the kid, or does it really belong to Apple trying to push a standard before it was globally (widespread, 80% of the web) adopted? PNG took years to get into tooling, if you recall - it just didn't poof appear, there were many years where JPG and GIF were the only upload formats - in 2020 you're now taking PNG for granted. :) Some day HEIC might be there.

ogre_codes 6y ago
> I can't find a setting to change screen resolution available on my device, or even if it's possible. It looks great though just the way it is out of the box, I don't know the difference either. This was Samsung I think who launched a phone, bragged about it's resolution, then shipped it with that resolution disabled so they users would get better battery life out the door. Terribly user-unfriendly and a horrible example since users who buy a high end smartphone would expect the phone ship with it's advertised resolution enabled. > Apple dealt them this card - you're blaming people for not knowing that a single vendor has introduced a new (image) format by default which really... IMO if you are passing out blame, look squarely at the developers of the web app who failed to create a standards compliant site. If your service is only capable of receiving specific mime types, you specify it on the input element. `accept="image/png, image/jpeg"` If you fail to do so, you will get arbitrary, random file types. If this were a desktop computer, a student might have sent photoshop images or TIFFs. If they'd specified what file formats their web app accepted, the iPhone would have sent JPGs.
- causality0 6y ago
  Many flagship phones ship this way now, including everything current from Samsung and LG.

ogre_codes 6y ago

> I can't find a setting to change screen resolution available on my device, or even if it's possible. It looks great though just the way it is out of the box, I don't know the difference either. This was Samsung I think who launched a phone, bragged about it's resolution, then shipped it with that resolution disabled so they users would get better battery life out the door. Terribly user-unfriendly and a horrible example since users who buy a high end smartphone would expect the phone ship with it's advertised resolution enabled. > Apple dealt them this card - you're blaming people for not knowing that a single vendor has introduced a new (image) format by default which really... IMO if you are passing out blame, look squarely at the developers of the web app who failed to create a standards compliant site. If your service is only capable of receiving specific mime types, you specify it on the input element. `accept="image/png, image/jpeg"` If you fail to do so, you will get arbitrary, random file types. If this were a desktop computer, a student might have sent photoshop images or TIFFs. If they'd specified what file formats their web app accepted, the iPhone would have sent JPGs.

causality0 6y ago
Many flagship phones ship this way now, including everything current from Samsung and LG.