> That means according to the author there is a space between just storing bitmaps and just using a png decoder where there were no good goto solutions before and they found a good solution with QOI.
What space? I feel like that's an assumption you're making and it might be true or it might not be, but even if you're right that's very vague and I want more specificity.
QOI lies between uncompressed images and entropy coded compressed images. It also happens to work heuristically quite well for such a simple spec. Maybe its defining feature is its simplicity, foremost (and as a consequence of that, speed, secondarily)
What space? I feel like that's an assumption you're making and it might be true or it might not be, but even if you're right that's very vague and I want more specificity.