“If HEIC has no haters I’m dead.”

Over on Bluesky, Melanie Walsh asks: Favorite and least favorite file formats? I’ll start. Favorite: TXT Least favorite: HEIC The answers – both replies and quote posts – are really interesting because most of the time they’re not about inherent capabilities of each format, but: how well supported it is in the general ecosystem? how painful it was last time I used it? who’s using it and for what? if there is one app I use it with, do I like this app? (interesting in the context of PDFs which some people love, and others hate) Of course, Walsh put a finger on the scale with her initial example, but HEIC stands out as a favorite least favorite. I understand this is mostly out of its limited support, raising a question whether Apple spent the right amount of time socializing and incentivizing its adoption – even on a Mac, you can’t escape blank stares the moment you drag it into many websites/web apps: HEIC on the other hand, Apple’s way of making photos smaller and everything else more…