Custom formats are great when you want to keep your info locked up, (like game graphics, etc.) but they won't do you a whole lot of good when you are creating a paint program for example, where you need to be able to read/write other common file formats to interface with the outside world. Not being able to do so would severely limit the usefulness of such an application.
Reading/Writing File formats
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