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>so it's odd that manufacturers choose the default minimum brightness to be brighter than the sun.

The default brightness of a phone is several hundred nits where the sun is 1.6 billion nits.

To quote Einstein: “everything is relative”

Yeah I was really perplexed by that line. I had to stop and scratch my head.

Maybe they mean, "brighter than daylight ambient light levels indoors"?