It means making GIFs has become as easy as it will likely ever get.
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Apple Introduces Moving 'Live Photos' for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus
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Apple is a very smart company. This feature is a gimick that will be very popular with the easily amused, and young children. Anything that involves Mommy and the Kids get's a lot of attention. Even after the newness wears off, it's a conversation starter and that's enough for Apple.
I think the other benefit is file size (hopefully).
GIFs are notoriously low res as they are usually huge files.
If this can stay 4k-ish but be a reasonable 10-15 mb I can see this be a very interesting feature!
I don't think it's a gimmick at all if you find yourself using it a lot.
I think the main benefit is that there is no change to my workflow (not an external app) so all it is is a value add. I look forward to giving it a try!
Is it as easy to take (one button you enable)? Could you use them on the lockscreen and have them auto sync across devices?
Apples biggest advantage is their ecosystem. If you live in it it's fantastic.
There are also a bunch of new Dynamic Wallpapers on the Apple site, under the iPhone 6s section.
It probably is a variation on gif. There was a company a while ago that got bought up by Apple and I bet this is the result, the company was a man with an app called Snappycam which claimed to have rewritten the jpeg compression algorithm from scratch to be more efficient and fast.
It's not technically a GIF since it will include audio.
I'm also wondering what the file format would be. If its .jpg how will it play on non apple devices.
I'm also wondering what the file format would be. If its .jpg how will it play on non apple devices.