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The person who belongs in extra hell is whoever decided not to implement support for heic natively in Windows.
Licensing bullshit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8ptbss/comment/e0dv1d4/?context=3
https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-player-why-cant-microsoft/
Explains it well.
Tldr: VLC is in France and doesn't have to respect copyright laws over software while Microsoft does and has to pay money for codecs per install.
Oddly enough, microsoft decided that. They are also apart of the group that owns the license to it, which includes apple and sony.
Windows supports something other than BMP?
You used to be able to open an heic in the native windows 11 photo viewer and go to "save as" and resave it as a jpg, but they removed it. So I guess its deliberate.
So Apple?