Google ships all these too, either in Android or Google Photos. The UI is sometimes less smooth than Apple's, but ML is competitive. (Which I think is your point: Apple does have competitive ML.)
Does Apple? If I upload photos from my computer it does analysis in the cloud, doesn't it?
- the image is never analyzed
- the image is sync'd to device and then analyzed
Google Lens, which isn't about sharing, does run many functions on device: for example, it does ondevice offline translation: https://9to5google.com/2021/01/25/google-lens-translate-offl...
The general direction at Google (https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/11/improved-on-device-ml-on-p...) is to move as much as possible on device for privacy and latency reasons.
There are published and opensource (Apache license, according to the github LICENSE file) models for Tensorflow Lite which runs on Pixel Edge TPUs (and most embedded devices):
https://tfhub.dev/s?q=edgetpu https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/official/pr...