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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by _bxg1 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:59PM (#23262176)
It suggests that they didn't even bother to try the app on an iPhone, which is what probably half of their target users reach for when they need to take photos. That belies a significant degree of laziness and/or incompetence.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by generationP on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:16PM (#23262522)
There is no "app". There's a website, from what I understand. Not everything needs to be tested on mobile. In their place I'd have left an option to upload non-supported formats "just in case" to leave a trail, without guarantee of acceptance; but this is not something I'd have expected them to do.

I'm also wondering how many iPhone users have that .heic setting at its default value, as opposed to having switched to .jpg.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by _bxg1 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:40PM (#23262926)
I was using "app" in the broad sense.

> Not everything needs to be tested on mobile

It does when it requires taking and uploading a photo in the year 2020. Especially when its target users are high school kids. What adult is going to use anything other than their phone to take an off-handed photo to upload somewhere these days? Much less a child who probably almost never uses a traditional computer.

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