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		theodric on May 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Students are failing AP tests because the College ... Typical Apple, trying to force some technically-superior crap down our throats rather than attempting to play nice with the rest of the world. Nobody else uses HEIC. I daresay most people don't even know what it is. Why not play nice with others by default!?

xvector on May 22, 2020 | [–]

Blaming Apple for this is ridiculous. It is trivial to validate input, and it is trivial to do so in a way that the iPhone will upload JPEG by default.

gbear605 on May 21, 2020 | [–]

Samsung uses it too. And the iPhone automatically converts it to jpegs, but the College Board’s form disabled that functionality.

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