• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    Apple definitely chose it to be a dick.

    What other image format supports HDR and modern compression algorithms? AVIF also requires a special codec. This is just codec stuff, I really don’t see it as anyone being a dick. Android can also use these modern formats, with the same requirements if you want to open them on Windows.

    Kinda surprising to me that people so frequently recommend using Linux here, yet taking 30 seconds to install a free codec on Windows is apparently a big deal.

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        12 hours ago

        Let’s try this again: in a world where Apple is not a dick, what modern image format do they use that isn’t subject to these same codec requirements?

        If they were doing this just to be dicks, they’d spin off one of their own formats like they did with ALAC. They didn’t, they used HEIC which was also used by Android (which is now using AVIF).

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          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. 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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            11 hours 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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              10 hours 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.