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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.
No, they have infinite money and are a prestige job for developers. The chances that they were unable to hire talented programmers on the singular most popular smartphone is essentially zero.
In the US, but worldwide Android leads 74% to Apple's 25%
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I was talking about the device, not the OS.
Apple is the largest smartphone manufacturer and so it stands to reason that Google has heard of them and hires talented people to work on the software for their devices. So statements like:
Is just nonsense completely divorced from reality.
I'm not sure what you're saying. If you write software for Apple mobile devices, you're creating it for iOS. If you write for basically any other smartphone, which represent nearly 75% of all devices worldwide, then you create for Android.
In the US they probably have a huge number of potential customers on iOS, so bringing experts and designing for their iOS experience makes sense, as you point out. But saying that platform is the most popular worldwide would be factually incorrect. You don't write apps for hardware (there might be some small tweaks to take advantage of available hardware like on Pixels), you design for the platform.
Also, it appears that the design for iOS is sound, and OP just fundamentally misunderstands how to share specific sets of photos with Google Photos.
None of this is to defend Google's data collection policies.