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by jsheard 888 days ago
Yeah, a lot of it is ultimately offloaded to the cloud and the hardware is effectively just a license key that grants you access to those API endpoints. Googles Magic Eraser was originally a cloud service, but they eventually got it working on-device with the Pixel 8 series, but they simultaneously launched Magic Editor which the Pixel 8 still defers to the cloud.