I've long maintained this is a user design flaw, not a user flaw, and that it's 99.8% the manufacturer's fault. The fact of the matter is that this is a *phone*, so people are going to naturally hold it and use it the way they hold and use a *phone*. It would be utterly trivial for the makers of these phones to make it so that the video comes out at the proper horizontal ratio no matter which way the phone is held, but the fact is that the don't to save meager cents per phone. Even a "warning" to people *while* they are shooting that they're not holding their phone correctly to take video to be displayed at the common ratio would be trivial to add, and better than what we have now. Hell, there is almost zero reason to ever shoot a video in vertical mode, why it's ever been an option and gotten to this point is really absurd.
Of course, I could rant too about the "seriousness" of people taking videos or even pictures using a phone (buy and use a real fucking camera already - pics and vids shot on a phone are pretty much just for the instragram/vine crowd anyway), but that will just pull me off into too much of a tangent.
Of course, I could rant too about the "seriousness" of people taking videos or even pictures using a phone (buy and use a real fucking camera already - pics and vids shot on a phone are pretty much just for the instragram/vine crowd anyway), but that will just pull me off into too much of a tangent.
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