TLDR: Pixel is sharper and more accurate, iPhone renders much better colours and contrasts.

“PS: but you stay green though.”

Quick napkin-at-the-restaurant maths:

An iPhone 15 picture taken at 24MP in Jpeg tops up at 5MB size (no 48MP, no Proraw). That means that a 2TB iPhone 15 can hold up to 400k of these. Considering that most won’t reach 5MB and that you can use lower-definition formats and resolutions, yes, 500k is largely possible.

And that’s considering that all pictures were taken with an iPhone 15. Plenty of people have a library full of pictures taken with much older camera systems and thus much smaller in storage space.

The answer to your question is yes, that’s perfectly possible.

I never understood the success of iPads. Wtf are people toddlers?

Nothing but bug fixes. Same goes for MacOS.

So it takes two generations for a base chip to beat a pro chip. Good to know.

Defective True Tone is the most likely.