▲ ▼ Social media for uncompressed photos and videos
MKBHD a smartphone YouTuber recently published the annual The Blind Camera Test and as usual an unexpected contender wins the test like previous years. It largely comes down to image compression by the social media platforms.
I was wondering when many including myself are spending lot of money in buying a smartphone for its camera to post good quality photographs to social media, social media platform's compression defeats that purpose.
I understand that compression reduces Internet data consumption, but high speed Internet with unlimited data caps is not an issue where I live and others who are in similar circumstance might prefer a social media where photos and videos are not compressed.
Although a consumer who wishes to see only full quality photographs might be willing to bare the high network charges, high bandwidth, low latency and even faster computation / colour accurate display required to display full quality images on their phones; how much they are willing to pay for such a service would matter the most as storage costs is the important if not the primary motivation behind compression for the business.
e.g. Snapchat signed $2 Billion and $1 Billion contract with Google and Amazon respectively in 2017 for their cloud services which it recently amended - https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/06/snap-admits-its-cloud-commitment-was-too-much.aspx , though not all of that money would be just for storage it shows how much more money Snapchat or similar platform would need to spend if they deliver photos and videos without compression.
But I personally feel there would be takers for such a service like yourself.
Thanks for the insight, I guess then this will be a niche service for those with high speed Internet connection and a flagship smartphone.