822: iPhone 17 Photography with Tyler Stalman

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My #1 request for Apple improvements would be to elegantly support a combined RAW+JPG file format for photos.

Apple could do this the Apple way - creating a new proprietary file format which works like a JPG everywhere, but also has a version of the RAW photo hidden inside.

This would allow everyone to always actually have the raw data so in the future, days, weeks, months, or years, if or when they decide to get a little more advanced, they have the data ready and waiting.

Imagine 1, 5, or 10 years from now being able to apply “then current” AI technology to fix blurry photos or do other amazing processing in ways we haven’t even seen yet, to priceless, old family photos, for example, of those no longer with us.

P.S. I know there a “kinda, sorta” ways to do this now (most standalone cameras already have an option for RAW+JPG), but I’m referring to Apple making it completely foolproof, automatic, and out of the way until you need it, consumer friendly.

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Wouldn’t that increase the file size by 10X, or more?

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Probably not, with good lossless compression.

But would be a good rationale for increasing the amount of free icloud storage, eh?

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Apple spends $ hundreds of millions each year leasing cloud storage from AWS and Google. They are Google’s largest corporate customer.

And you think there is a even a chance that they would lease 7.8 Billion GB more to double the amount of free storage for iPhone users?

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This was my favorite episode in a long time. Tyler has a great way of conveying essential information and nuances as well. Many thanks for this episode!

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My comments were wishful thinking, satire, not anything I would ever expect (hope, yes) Apple to do.

OT, but if you want to understand how evil Apple can be, read the book “Apple in China”

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:+1:

And my response was just supposed to be funny.

+1 Good book. Reading it now.

But I’ve read enough about Apple over the years to have formed my own opinion about it.

“An unnamed senior vice president of software engineering at Apple wrote in a 2013 email that allowing iMessage features to work for iPhone and non-Apple phones alike “would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones,” according to the government’s lawsuit.”

‘Green bubble shaming’ at play in DOJ suit against Apple

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