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Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by 0points on Friday September 20, 2024 @04:17AM (#41599883)
Crystal clear case of faked obsolescence, a major cause for environmental damage.

Costing the planet our future sustainability in the name of greed.

And all you have to say about it is a snark?

Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by appendix-rock on Friday September 20, 2024 @04:56AM (#41600092)
Words mean things. Please use the right words.

1. As another commenter points out, your device works exactly as it did before.

2. Nobody on the face of the earth is making a decision about whether or not to buy a new phone based on JPEG-XL support. The fact that you’d even entertain that either means you’re in too much of a bubble or you’re so blinded by Apple hatred that you’re willing to believe any contrived thing that paints the company in a negative light.

Stop it.

Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by adityaathalyo on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:27AM (#41600224)
> Nobody on the face of the earth is making a decision about whether or not to buy a new phone based on JPEG-XL support.

"Nobody" - is that you speaking for everyone?

Stop it.

Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by FollowingTheDao on Friday September 20, 2024 @07:10AM (#41600801)
I literally read someone on Twitter saying they wanted to upgrade from a 13 pro max to be able to have access to JPEG XL.

adityaathalyo, welcome to the club of people who cannot bring up ecological concerns about tech on HN.

Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by JyrkiAlakuijala on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:22PM (#41603465)
I will buy an iphone if it supports jpeg xl, and exactly because of that reason. ProRAW or DNG on top of jpeg xl, I wouldn't buy yet...
Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by ksec on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:33AM (#41607464)
I actually commented exactly the same thing. [1] In full support of JPEG-XL.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538352

Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by 0points on Saturday September 21, 2024 @06:13AM (#41608918)
> Words mean things. Please use the right words.

What the ... You are ignoring what I wrote while not contributing anything. What did you fail to comprehend? You should be addressing what I wrote. Apparently many other commenters did understand me. What does that tell us? You are just being a jerk.

> Stop it.

Seriously. You are not discussing things, and you are not sharing an opinion here. You should be the one taking a break and consider your behavior.

How does it feel defending one of the richest companies in the world, and realizing they wouldn't care if you dropped dead?

Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by Gud on Friday September 20, 2024 @04:37AM (#41599990)
This is not “fake obsolence”. Your old devices works exactly how they did before.
Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by pooper on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:10AM (#41600138)
I will give you another unrelated example to demonstrate fake obsolescence on an iPhone. For example, on the iPhone 13 Pro Max, You cannot set the battery to stop charging at 80%. You can do this with the new iPhone. I don't remember either 14 or 15, but you can't do this with the 13 Pro Max. So can you say that the iPhone 13 Promax is actually supported for so many years with the latest and greatest iOS When apple doesn't actually bring these new features. Back to the older version of iPhone?
Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by tzs on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:30AM (#41600530)
FYI, you can get most of the same effect on your 13 Pro Max by plugging your charger into a smart plug, and using Shortcuts to make an automation that turns off the smart plug whenever the phone battery goes about 80%.

I use that on my 10th generation iPad and used it on the iPhone X that I had up until about two months ago when it got replaced with a 15 which does support the "charge to 80%" option. It works great.

The only minor annoyance I ran into was that the phones where the OS supports the 80% limit it will occasionally go to 100%, which they say is necessary to keep the battery level indicator calibrated. With the smart plug method you'll have to handle occasionally disabling the shortcut (or charging with the charger plugged straight into the outlet).

Just make sure to pick a smart plug that can be turned off from Shortcuts.

Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by Asmod4n on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:29AM (#41600525)
By default all iPhones stop charging at 80%
Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by tzs on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:41AM (#41600602)
The "stop at 80%" option is 15 and later.

I think you are thinking of the "optimized charging" option, which tries to guess how long you will be leaving the phone on the charger and then pauses when it reaches 80% until it gets near the time it thinks you are going to take the phone off the charger and then charges up to 100%.