| > view them in preview on my m1 Mac mini Now send it to anyone, in any way. iMessage? Doesn’t work. Received on an iPhone? Won’t work. Android? Definitely not. Etc… There is no one file format that works across ecosystems. Apple is even internally fragmented, with some formats working on MacOS that don’t on IOS. > Of course it looked different That is broken!! This is precisely what I mean: HDR is often incorrectly decoded as SDR in Apple operating systems. This is worse than just sending an SDR JPG because the HDR-to-SDR conversion is unpredictable, and making the HDR image was a waste of time and bits. Note that I didn’t say HDR video! I meant specifically HDR still images, the type that JPEG XL can encode. Right now, in 2024, if I want to send someone HDR anything, the only robust method is to make it into a video and send them a YouTube link to it. That’s a sad state of affairs. |