Apple Introduces Moving 'Live Photos' for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus

[manu chao]

So in other words, GIFs are new again?

It means making GIFs has become as easy as it will likely ever get.

 

[ErikGrim]

Missed opportunity not to brand this "Potter Pictures"

 

[maxsix]

So lame...

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.

 

[rtdunham]

Can i email them? Message them? I cant message iphone slow-mos…

 

[acearchie]

It means making GIFs has become as easy as it will likely ever get.

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!

 

[acearchie]

As a father of three young kids this is the type of gimmick that I would use and compel me to upgrade. Hate to say it but it's true.

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!

 

[erzhik]

As a Lumia 1520 user which supported Live Images for more than a year, this is an incredible gimmick that nobody will use.

 

[QuarterSwede]

As a Lumia 1520 user which supported Live Images for more than a year, this is an incredible gimmick that nobody will use.

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.

 

[n8cousins]

There are also a bunch of new Dynamic Wallpapers on the Apple site, under the iPhone 6s section.

 

[ecsos]

So in other words, GIFs are new again?

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.

 

[acearchie]

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.

Good spot! I reckon that certainly is the case!

 

[TnIan]

Anyone know what the file format is? I assume it'll be Apple-proprietary, so what happens when I upload my camera roll to a Dropbox account? Does it retain the "Live Photo" format, or strip the video and save as a .jpg, or what?

 

[tennisproha]

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.