• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days 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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          8 days 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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            8 days 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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              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.