It doesn’t. It designs part of the chips that go into their phones.

Google also designs chips that go into its phones, and Microsoft has also designed chips and security co processors that have gone into PCs.

(Of course, I’d never consider a Microsoft “security co processor” secure, nor an apple or google one).

[edit] I also do not see your point of apple being better (or more virtuous) than google or microsoft for designing their own hardware, for 2 different reasons:

• Currently Microsoft and Google have immense control over the software of PCs and phones. Apple wants to have full control of both the software and the hardware, and making their own hardware is a big step towards that goal. It means they’re restricting you (the user) from using the hardware you bought for your own purpose.

• Making custom hardware does not make a company more or less virtuous. Manufacturing/designing capabilities are just spending money in the respective industry. As I mentioned before, both Google and Microsoft have designed their own chips, and they also have designed chips for their servers. I would also argue that we should stop humanizing companies. They don’t have human traits, they’re not virtuous, they’re just there to take your money and go.

Apple gets money from both their monopoly on user data and their high prices. That’s why it’s above Microsoft and Google in market cap, even though it doesn’t have nearly as much infrastructure and reach.

Disclaimer: never use Brave browser, it’s really bad. The CEO is an asshole, and they promote crypto and scams, while still showing their own ads. They also got caught sneakily adding affiliate codes to URLs. (https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/)

Use firefox or any firefox derivative with ublock origin (yes, even on android)

Yes, and no. No app will display the image if it wasn’t already capable of displaying webp, period.

However, there are many places (mainly websites where you can only upload certain formats, but it can also be apps) where the underlying infrastructure supports webp, but they do a simple extension check first with a list of file extensions that doesn’t include .webp. In those cases, changing the extension to .jpg will get the image through the filter, and the underlying system will detect the format using the magic number at the beginning of the file.

The same thing can happen when your OS has no associated app to open .webp, but the app it uses for .jpg can also display .webp.

I mean like 89% of the shit on Reddit is some OF model advertising.

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