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Android users have had just about enough of temporal dithering
A new AOSP bug report got dozens of backers in just days, highlighting a problem that's been growing under our noses this whole time.
On July 9, an official bug report was filed to Google's Android issue tracker system, outlining the ways that system-wide temporal dithering was negatively affecting users. It's a clever engineering trick that saves companies R&D dollars, allowing them to use cheaper panels and still get away with saying their phones or displays show "billions of colors," even if they technically can't. While only a single-digit percentile of people may be negatively affected by color dithering (we don't actually know the number), Google has shown that it can care for even just a relatively small percentage of users with these kinds of accessibility settings.
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