... why do they need to ship these features to non pixel phones ? It's Google's special software sauce that make people buy pixels. Google doesn't ship advances Photos app tools on non pixel phones
Because they’re not Apple. It sounds nice to gate features to phones. But they’re trying to expand their subscription revenue to offset ads. It’s a much bigger market to target every android user.
Google ships the advanced photo products to non pixels after a delay, the pixels get a head start not exclusive access.
