Happiness is only real, when shared. Can we talk about the elephant in the room? Instagram deliberately lowers quality on Android users.

Can we talk about the elephant in the room? Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, deliberately lowers quality of uploads for Android users, compression happens on the server side, so there is no excuse, also they are using the same version of libx264, so again no excuse.

Does Apple pays Instagram to do this? Is this legal?

Why Does smartphone reviewers like /u/Marques-Brownlee , /u/ThisIsTechToday , UnboxTherapy never talk about this?

If is not illegal and it is not a disloyal, unfair action, why Google doesn't do the same for YouTube? Like deliberately lowers the quality of whatever it is uploaded from an iPhone or any other Apple product?

Here is a link of an article written in spanish that made some tests to prove what I’m saying.

https://www.xatakamovil.com/aplicaciones/instagram-para-android-procesa-peor-imagenes-videos-ponemos-a-prueba-aplicacion

Basically, doesn't matter what you use to shoot a video, even if you use a Red Camera, or a Canon DSLR, even if you shoot your videos on an iPhone! if you upload that video using an Android it will look like garbage, if you upload exactly the same video using iPhone it will look crystal clear.

Tik Tok for example doesn't do this, and the overall quality of the app looks a lot much better than Instagram because of the same reason, Android and Apple users can upload crystal clear videos if they have a good camera.

Why nobody is complaining? I love pixel phones, and I love the camera picture style, but there is no sense on having this quality if I can not share it with anyone.

If this was fixed a lot of people, influencers, and creatives will be able to switch to Android.

“Happiness is only real, when shared"



Submitted August 27, 2020 at 06:49PM by fugi-fuki https://ift.tt/3hAq1mh https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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