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Good to know--I didn't run it through my Pixel. Some devices will do a relative projection from Display P3 to sRGB, which means that it will look "relatively" like it would in Display P3 but projected onto the sRGB color space.

Edited to add: and some other ones are doing something even less fancy, which is just to ignore the color profile entirely and just assume sRGB and display it incorrectly, taking for example what would have been the maximum red point for Display-P3 and making it the maximum red point in sRGB.



Since you brought up your Pixel: what is the point of adding something 1% of your customers maybe can see instead fixing that horrible horrible compression that makes uploads from android (80% world wide market share) look like crap?

(Not an android user, I just want to figure out how a company of your size prioritises between bugs and features.)


I can't speak for OP but say this does effect 1% of users today, what percentage does it effect in 6 months, or a year? Not bad to be proactive.

And regarding android compression issues, although resources are always finite, I imagine in this case the android team is fairly separate, so they may very well be working on that compression issue while iOS is pushing forward into new terrain.


Instagram should hire some faster Android developers if that is the case, it's been an issue since 2012:

https://www.xda-developers.com/a-look-into-instagrams-compre...


> I imagine in this case the android team is fairly separate

This is likely it, right here. So many people forget that larger companies have different teams working on different things. I bet a lot of their "iOS people" that are working on this project have no clue how the Android app works, and Instagram likely has a separate team working on the compression issues.


"Working on" since 2012?


I don't use IG, so I wasn't aware of that problem or how long it had been around. That said, the general sentiment stands: one of their teams working on one thing doesn't show that they don't have another team working on something unrelated.


> (80% world wide market share)

Not of instagram user. Not of app users.


Well, given how Instagram has treated its android users can you blame them?

I've seen a number of SV companies releasing ugly and buggy android apss then use their lowering android user base as a proof that android users use like their services.

To be honest, things could be worse. You could be a tinder user in win phone...




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