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The big reason is that JPEG XL is a seamless migration/lossless conversion from JPEG.

You get better compression and services can deliver multiple resolutions/qualities from the same stored image (reducing storage or compute costs), all transparent to the user.

So your average user will not care but your cloud and web service companies will. They are going to want to adopt this tech once there's widespread support so they can reduce operating costs.



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