Google+ photo vs Facebook photo upload limit

I was reminded of the work Google+ still has to do before it can match Facebook feature to feature, most notably for me in the photo uploads feature. Google+ currently scales back my iPhone uploads down to 2048 x 2048 pixels, when the camera takes photos at 3,264 x 2,448 pixels. Although it's the thought and content of the photo that counts, I am dissapointed in the drop in quality in order to store photos. Facebook offers this free service for all photos in all sizes, mostly because of it's business model of collecting as much information from you as possible. So for now i've switched to upload the originals to Evernote for long term storage and using Google+ for photo sharing. But what a world it would be if Google+ could do both.