[wyager]

Agreed, Apple is really pushing consumer display technology. It's tough to find FALD 1600 nit displays outside of the XDR or the MBP. Apple has also done a lot for consumer color science.

However, as far as the iPhone producing HDR HEIF photos - as I recall from some brief reading, it seems like possibly an intentional choice from Apple to do this in an opaque, nonstandard way, so other image pipelines can't easily take advantage of it. I don't really want to give them credit for that.

[jiggawatts]

They did it in a nonstandard way because there is no standard way!

This is my point. Also the HEIF files are just a still frame of a standard video format in a standard container format.

The lack of third party support is 100% laziness.