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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by Alupis on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:12PM (#23263492)
HEIC isn't simple, and isn't common.

Apple should convert to JPG or PNG when exporting the image to anywhere anytime.

The same problem happens with webp images too - totally unusable almost everywhere, even in photoshop.

Apple wants to reduce storage space photos take up. Fine - but they should convert back to a standard format when exporting the image to be used on some other system.

With that said, it seems the issue is from students that didn't upload the image from their phone (where Apple correctly converts to JPG), but rather transferred the image to their computer, then uploaded into the AP Exam.

If that's true, then this is absolutely on Apple. Why would they export in a format that literally nobody else supports. What are these people supposed to do with a folder full of HEIC formatted photos, that can't be uploaded anywhere else, edited with any program, or opened even opened on some Operating Systems?

Apple should assume nobody else uses HEIC because... well, nobody else uses HEIC.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by simonh on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:55PM (#23264170)
Nothing starts common, you have to start somewhere, and it is an ISO standard format.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by Alupis on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:44PM (#23264953)
A file format, used by one company, isn't going to change the world.

JPG and PNG are here to stay. Love it or hate it... they are the lowest common denominator for image formats.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by lazyjeff on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:30PM (#23265639)
File formats change fast. It was not too long ago PNG was the newcomer, and people were touting how much better it was than GIF for non-photographs (alpha transparency, better compression, etc.). It has been successful, and now almost all applications support it. Same thing with moving from AVI to the MPEG formats in video.

New formats are a good thing, and fast adoption of them is good for users.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by simonh on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:56AM (#23269666)
>used by one company

Samsung have started changing over as well, it's the default on their latest phones.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by a1369209993 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:26PM (#23266242)
> it is an ISO standard format.

So is COBOL[0]; that doesn't mean you should ever use or support it.

0: https://www.iso.org/standard/28805.html

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