That's true, but that's an argument about the iPhone and not Photos. On the iPho...

pfranz on July 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Apple's operating systems mistreat the user

That's true, but that's an argument about the iPhone and not Photos. On the iPhone, there's literally a switch to instead save as jpg/h.264...which do have their own patent problems (there have been various successful patent collections on jpeg and h.264 is subject to the same MPEG LA group HEVC is).