In web.com, JF Mezei
suggested:

Yet, any Android phone that runs the Google camera app has the same
portrait mode. It's just done differently but the end result is the same.

This is where "qualitative" comes into play. Often, the Apple side of
the fence has a less "amazing" implementation but what it does, it does
it better. Android tends to be first with many features but implemented
with less quality.

That is a reasonable statement.
But is it correct?

I only speak facts.
And I'm very reasonable since I'm a logical thinker.

Most iOS users appear to be so inextricably emotionally attached to
whatever the Apple Marketing Machine tells them to think, that their own
words indicate that they can't even think facts on their own.

Contrary facts seem to befuddle them.
But the Apple Marketing Machine message soothes them.

So, maybe it is true that the Apple portrait mode ends up with superior
results in the final form (that is, in the photo itself).

Maybe it is true.
But maybe it's not true.

Has *anyone* shown facts either way in this thread (or in the thread
dedicated to this topic)? Nope.

So everyone is just guessing.

What we need is very simple, since it's a fact that both Android and Apple
iOS phones have portrait mode.

We need to find a reference that does a blind test of the results.
It's pretty easy to do the test.

1. Person 1 shoots a set of portrait mode photos with iOS.
2. They shoot the same set using Android under the same conditions.
3. A different person, a digital photo expert, compares the results

It's a simple test to run, and, depending on the conditions and the
expertise of the digital photo expert, they can pronounce whether there is
any meaningful difference in the quality of the results.

It's a valid question.
Does anyone have a pointer to such a reference?

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