Fun fact (and obscure feature):
If you edit a pic on your iphone, even just slightly cropping it, the system saves it as a jpeg.
This to me is a testament to 2 things: phone manufacturers have a problem with feature discovery; these students are lazy and unable to operate even the most basic Google search, which would have resulted in this or many other quick solutions to make the file compatible.
Frankly? They better be smarter next time, instead of putting the burden on the developers (who actually baked in the right exception)