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Oddly, reminds me of when Apple first pushed/forced HEIC on all of it's users, without letting them know of course. Because of that, it caused thousands of students to fail their AP exams.
Big problem with HEIC is it requires H265 licensing because it's effectively a single frame of video. This is why Windows won't open HEIC by default is Microsoft didn't want to pay for the licensing
My Samsung phone pushes out HEIF photos by default
It's sad.
Adoption rate does matter. HEIC currently has a 13.99% adoption, and WebP has a 95.92% adoption rate in web browsers.
So when considering support in softwate, it's more reasonable to pick WebP as default, rather than HEIC.
There are of course other considerations, like compression efficiency, format features, patents, ...
My Samsung was recording videos in Hevc by default the other day and it was a pain to edit them in Da Vinci Resolve. Luckily Kdenlive handled them without any problems
Apple just loves having their own media formats
HEIC still catches me out from time to time. So many things just don’t support it