Google Claims Apple Follows Its Lead in Smartphone Innovation: 'We Take It As a Compliment'

[laptech]

I think the saying goes like "Google does it first, Apple does it properly"

Which is why you find in some tech circles Apple is referred to as a 'copier' of tech rather than an 'innovator' of tech.

Edit: I see with the downvotes there are a lot of grumpy Apple fans. Truth hurts doesn't it and yes I am a long time Apple user.

 

[5232152]

Apple hasn't innovated with the iPhone. The new processor and camera hardly count, to be frank.

 

[Leon Ze Professional]

OK, let's play along with Rakowski claim that Google was first to implement car crash detection.

What use will it be on the Pixel 6 when the modem kept dropping out and losing cellular connection?

Please explain?

 

[Joosst]

I think it’s great that Steve and his team patented crucial UX behaviours such as the ‘rubber banding’ that happens when you overscroll a list. Whatever Android adds, using it will never feel as smooth as an iPhone.
Also: I would, for privacy reasons alone, never consider a Google phone.

 

[senttoschool]

We hope every device maker gets the message and adopts RCS, making texting better for every smartphone user.

Translation: iMessage so incredibly successful that the vast majority of US teens use iPhone to avoid green bubbles. In order to make more profits for Google shareholders, we'd like Apple to adopt RCS so some of those US teens can switch to Android.

 

[ersan191]

Google and Samsung constantly half-ass features like Face ID or camera night mode and then Apple eventually does it correctly and everyone says they're copying... It's frustrating. It wouldn't surprise me if Google's car crash detection sucked balls too.

Edit: big shocker, first result on Reddit for pixel car crash detection:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/w24arr

RCS is a straight up clone of iMessage anyway. Took them how many years to get around to that one? Glass houses.

 

[NightFox]

Wasn’t Nokia the first one to introduce Always On Screen on their Lumia phones?

Pretty sure my Motorola MicroTAC Classic had an AOD back in 1993

 

[BootsWalking]

I am always wary of companies talking down their competitors.

It's almost as if they have to take a 'pop' at their competitors to make their own product sound better. Feels they are trying to justify themselves.

Competition is good to push boundaries of innovation, talking about competitors is not so good..

You mean like this?

 

[winxmac]

Competition is good. Remember when iPhone didn’t have copy paste?

I use both platforms and both have nice features that I wish they would copy from one another but that’s mostly due to habits like I find it cumbersome to get an adblocker working on my Samsung while it’s super easy and straight forward on iOS. iOS does not offer enough customization of features they do have. Like I would love to be able to share my actual focus status

Use Adguard on android and enable it on Samsung internet browser or use Yandex browser... This is what I use on my Samsung Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S10+ while on iOS I use AdGuard Pro on Safari...

 

[NightFox]

It's a weird world that the only universal standard for electronic comms is Email. No matter what phone, computer, operating system or software you use, if you want to send an email to someone you can.

There's no 'oh this is Apple's prosperity email client, you need to have this on your computer to receive emails' or 'you can only email a Samsung phone user a plain text email because they don't support the same standards as the iPhone'.

Not if you believe my dentists, who insist the reason I don't get their emails cancelling my appointments is because I have an Apple (iCloud) email address and they use a Microsoft email system, which often blocks Apple emails because they're a competitor.

I just say "ahhh" and try to look enlightened.

 

[George Dawes]

Is it April 1st already ?

 

[stracky]

This guy at google has a career in politics with that kinda of one eyed BS.

Forget that pixel phones (& Samsung & all the rest) are all a copy of iPhone. But he is right, google launched a few very minor features before apple and that makes google pioneers in innovation. Haha.

Wouldnt mind seeing apple push out some more forward thinking ideas though. So short runs of future tech/ design etc. eg Apple Watch is so boring. Sure it works well but …..

 

[Steve121178]

Wasn’t Nokia the first one to introduce Always On Screen on their Lumia phones?

Nokia had Always On screens in the 1990's like most other devices of the era. To save battery the backlight didn't come on but the screen was literally always on and there was no way to turn it off. Probably because batteries back then lasted days/weeks.

 

[Eldaerenth Faexidor]

Why is our world becoming so toxic about everything and anything? SMH.

 

[Strebor]

"Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to those callsby saying it's not something Apple users are asking the company to do"

Well, he never asked me. In Europe many people use Whatsapp (I have to use it, cause not many people use iMessage). I'd love for a universal standard to get rid of most messaging going through Facebook servers.

 

[ct2k7]

9 in 10 US teens use iPhone and may continue using Apple devices for the rest of their lives. I'm sure Google would love it if Apple removed their biggest selling point and differentiator, iMessage.

It's a completely toxic idea that people are affected by the colour of their message blobs. Just think about humanity's direction.

 

[iBluetooth]

"Pixel has always been a leader in smartphone innovation,"
Wasn't the Pixel design based on the iPhones that came before it. Everything since then isn't innovation, but features!

 

[Steve686]

Ya. Blackberry used to say the physical keyboard would win out.

 

[Will Co]

I might be blind or stupid, but my position is really simple: Other manufacturers make great phone hardware, often better than Apple's in terms on cameras, etc, and arguably design. But nobody but Apple controls the chip manufacturing, and nobody but Apple controls the OS the phone's on. iPhone OS is better than Android - so people say. So whatever the hardware it's never even a temptation. Or is that simplifying matters too much?

I'd say that pretty much sums it up.

 

[ian87w]

Meh. Stock Android is so behind that it’s copying features that the OEM skins already had for ages.

I mean what’s the tent pole feature of Android 13, or 12? Theming?

 

[wilhoitm]

Don't rush to defend Apple. Can't deny that Google has a point.

And our beloved Apple is turning into a marketing company under our watch.

Don't get it twisted, Apple does not care about being first! Apple did not make the first smartphone or tablet! Look at Apple now! Don't take other companies imperfect ideals and try to force them on Apple!

 

[Jim Lahey]

I wouldn’t touch anything sullied by Google with a ten foot pole, but credit where it’s due, that’s a stylish looking handset in my view. Way more thoughtful than anything Apple has dreamt up recently. Their idea of innovation these days is just adding ever larger beer cans on the back and even bigger bugs 😳

 

[NightFox]

9 in 10 US teens use iPhone and may continue using Apple devices for the rest of their lives. I'm sure Google would love it if Apple removed their biggest selling point and differentiator, iMessage.

But when that differentiator is a closed messaging platform that doesn't offer anything that alternative open platforms don't also provide?

 

[Tom_Aatje]

It's funny they talk about leading when they just carried the multi million dollar Stadia project to the grave.

 

[CB1234]

You mean like this?

My post was talking about any company taking 'pop' at their competitors!!! Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, literally anyone...

Not every post has to be turned into a fight between Apple vs everyone??

And how far back in history do you go? People have always copied from each other from time eternal... In some cases copied designs are far better implemented then the original design, and that is good for consumers.

Taking 'pop' at your competitors and/or other people is not good, and will never be..