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Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by illiac786 on Friday September 20, 2024 @09:36AM (#41601892)
To be fair it’s less bad than what some other vendors are doing, which is stopping to provide updates. Not saying apple is an angel, they intentionally generate ewaste by withholding such features…
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Re:Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means... by danielheath on Friday September 20, 2024 @07:17PM (#41606303)
I spend a lot of time using my phone, and can afford the latest & greatest - but I use a 6 year old apple phone, because it's _perfectly fine_. A 10 year old apple phone is "just barely usable".

When I was in the android ecosystem, a 4 year old phone was "just barely" usable, and phones stopped being "fine" after about two years.

I'll give apple shit for a lot of things, and they could definitely do _more_ about e-waste... but this is as likely to be "we put the image encoder on the camera module, so it would have been slightly more work to backport to old phones"

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