Besides I could do "named person on a beach in August" and get the correct thing in photos on Android photos, so I don't get it.
It's amazing for apple users if they didn't have it before. But from a tech stand point people could have had it for a while.
The current addition is "just" about adding a natural language interface on top of data they already have about your photos (on device, not in the cloud).
My iPhone 14 can, for example, detect the breed of my dog correctly from the pictures and it can search for a specific pet by name. Again on-device, not by sending my stuff to Google's cloud to be analysed.
I prefer Apple's privacy focused option myself.
It's a trade-off between getting the features I need and the price I have to pay. All else being equal I do prefer privacy as well. Unfortunately, all else is not equal.
>I prefer Apple's privacy focused option myself.
It's only an option if it works.