IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. - eviltoast
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 month ago

    What other image format supports HDR and modern compression algorithms that don’t require a license?

    There, ftfy. You answer the question.

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      1 month ago
      1. are you implying that there is indeed no better choice?
      2. webp, but that’s google. jpeg xt, but i see virtually no one adopting that.
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      1 month ago

      I dunno, JPEG XT maybe? At a loss here.

      Why did Android also use HEIC, did they choose this just to be a dick like Apple?

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        1 month ago

        Seeing how Android adopted it 4 years later, it’s pretty obvious that Apple made it the de-facto standard. I agree with you, something like JPEG XT or really any other open format would have been a great choice, but they made HEIC the standard, which requires a license. Dick move.