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That most likely just means they are opening the door to discontinuing them more easily in the future.

Actually it looks like a way to give users a bit and make them pay if they want more.

> Magic Editor Android and iOS Google Photos users will get ten monthly saves, while anyone looking to increase that limit will need either a Pixel device or paid Google One plan with 2TB+.

It sounds like the previously paid unblur and eraser features will be unmetered, at least. It mentions that those will only work on devices with at least 3GB of RAM so I guess they're running those on-device now, and Magic Editor is still offloaded to Googles servers.

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