[The_Colonel]

Target customer group doesn't know how to use a computer, for the most part.

VGA is not that bad for phone pictures. If you scale down a photo from decent camera to VGA, it can look fine. The problem is that for VGA cameras, the resolution is the smallest issue - colors, sharpness, dybamic range are likely tragic.

[hulitu]

> VGA is not that bad for phone pictures

You're right. It is the terrible jpeg compression which destroys everything.

[The_Colonel]

No, it's not the JPEG compression.

This is an example of an image from my daughter's VGA camera: https://imgur.com/oMNkrUm

The image has ~100 KB which is plenty for this resolution. But the input data from the sensor is awful because the sensor and the optics are awful.

[skyyler]

Yeah, people really don’t seem to understand that most kids currently in high school have only used a desktop computer to play PC games, if at all.