[MBCook]

Section in the article: “The iPhone 16 family could let you shoot in JPEG-XL”

I’m with you. No normal person is waiting for this. Are any techies? Like maybe 2?

The article says the JPEG would be a third the size they are now. OK. That’s nice.

But only 12.5% of Internet users can seem ‘em. All of ‘em Apple users.

https://caniuse.com/?search=jpeg-xl

So what’s the point? Just use HEIC. It’s supported by the exact same browsers. All Safari and nothing else.

This seems like a really sketchy rumor to me.

[eviks]

You forgot that that 12.5% could change "overnight" if Google change their hostile stance, and adding it as a default in a very popular phone increases the chances of that happening, so add a few zeroes to that 2

[somethingsidont]

> But only 12.5% of Internet users can seem ‘em. All of ‘em Apple users.

That's a positive for Apple. "Why can't I view the new family pics?" "Oh mom you need to get an iPhone for that"

[viraptor]

> The article says the JPEG would be a third the size they are now. OK. That’s nice.

That's also significant $$$ when you're serving petabytes of image traffic every month. Even if it's limited to iOS.