

HEIC faces a few struggles with adoption:
- It’s patent encumbered.
- It’s not free as in “free beer”, someone has to pay for it.
- It’s not free as in “free speech” - you can’t use, modify, and distribute software or formats without restrictions due issue #1.
AV1 and AVIF don’t have any of these issues –someone correct me if I’m wrong or missing something– so anyone is able to include/distribute the software and modify to their needs.
Apologies, my point was not clear enough.
My response was aimed at your first sentence:
This makes it read like the likelihood of a god existing is 50/50. In reality, based on evidence, its much closer to 100% chance there’s no god; 0% chance there is one.