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It seems to be useful to save space while shooting RAW.

> The biggest update for me personally this year is the new JPEG XL compression for RAW images. This means I can take far more RAW images than before without worrying about instantly filling up my phone or cloud storage. Even when increasing or decreasing the images by multiple stops of light, the data in the JPEG XL images is all there, even at 25% of the file size. Wildly impressive.

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Fundamentally XL for them extends their ability to continue to rip people off on what they charge for storage, a very lucrative business for Apple. Helps that little 128gb go a bit further.

Apple storage is indeed undersized.

But most of us work around this with a $2.99/mth iCloud+ subscription which gets us 200GB storage on the cloud. Not a deal but a trivial enough cost to not worry about running out of storage.

As a non pro user, this is perfectly ok for storing all of my 33k photos since 2007.

> rip people off

I pay 99 cents/month for a well integrated system that has never lost my data.

What alternatives provide that convenient service?

Yes, I could buy a giant HD. No I do not want to run a backup service.

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