Google Mocks iPhone 17 Design Rumors in Pixel 9 Pro Ad

[MacRumors]

Google this week targeted the upcoming iPhone 17 in an ad for the Pixel 9 Pro, mocking Apple's design plans and suggesting that Apple often copies Android features.

The iPhone 17 isn't released, of course, so Google's ad is based on rumors that the iPhone is going to get a horizontal camera bar at the back, which is a Pixel-esque design. Dummy models and mockups of the iPhone 17 depict a thick horizontal camera bar for the iPhone 17 Pro models, and a slimmer, more Pixel-style camera bar for the iPhone 17 Air.

Google's Pixel lineup has long used a horizontal camera bar, but it has lenses arranged in a horizontal line. Apple plans to continue to use a triangular arrangement for the iPhone 17 Pro models, and will simply expand the camera bump.

In the ad, Google points out that the Pixel had a horizontal camera bar first, before delving into other features that Apple has allegedly copied. The video is positioned as a "podcast" featuring a Pixel phone and an iPhone.

Pixel: Hi, I'm Pixel, and this is my friend, iPhone.
iPhone: Good day.
Pixel: There are a lot of rumors circulating about iPhone's upcoming redesign.
iPhone: It's crazy. Can you imagine me doing the same thing you did first years later?

Google highlights Night Mode, Clean Up, and widgets as examples of features that were available on Android first. The video wraps up with the iPhone copying a line that the Pixel says first: "We want to remind everyone that these rumors are just rumors."

"Please don't go repeating everything you see," reads the video description. Google has used the iPhone and Android ad format in the past to mock Apple's iPhone design decisions, most recently targeting Apple's switch to USB-C.

Article Link: Google Mocks iPhone 17 Design Rumors in Pixel 9 Pro Ad

 

[ghanwani]

Apple needs to convince Ive to come back and right the direction.

 

[blairh]

This is so lame.

 

[mejsric]

free advertisement for Aplple, thanks google

 

[DMG35]

It is lame, but for Apple to put a massive camera bar on the back of the phone and claim "new design" is just ridiculous. They've seriously lost the plot when it comes to redesigning the iPhone.

How about they make a thicker phone with no freaking camera hump? That would be a truly new design.

 

[Legend of Ive]

Thanks to RCS my next phone will be a pixel.

Gates are open in the walled garden

 

[hieranonymous]

Google is chronically online.

 

[tongxinshe]

And Android UI was fully redesigned after seeing the original iPhone announcement, to mimic the iPhone UI to each Pixel.

 

[kjvmartin]

If I wasn't so stuck invested in the Apple ecosystem, I'd probably try Pixel.

Apple has me mildly irritated but captive enough to stay. AirPods and AppleWatch are tougher to replace than iPhone for my family group.

 

[TVreporter]

Why even hint at Apple being more “Google like”

That could convince Google users looking for change to jump.

Just a lame ad overall.

 

[fatTribble]

This makes me respect google even more.
/s

 

[Octavius8]

Will iPhone video camera FINALLY be fixed???. For years night videos from ANY iPhone have added horrible green dots in the video. Everybody is so used to iPhone mediocrity that we think is better that than NOT having those.

 

[Mojorisin771]

I thought it was funny.

 

[coolfactor]

Awwwwkk... ward. But for who?

 

[Octavius8]

If only google made good earphones and good tablets… and laptops with good OS…

 

[canadianreader]

At the end of the video Google was almost explicitly hinting at Macrumors. And about the redesign yes it's a Pixel ripoff minus the glass surrounding the cameras.

 

[coolfactor]

It is lame, but for Apple to put a massive camera bar on the back of the phone and claim "new design" is just ridiculous. They've seriously lost the plot when it comes to redesigning the iPhone.

How about they make a thicker phone with no freaking camera hump? That would be a truly new design.

One must wonder.. why is the camera hump/bump even a problem? Nobody complained about giant lenses sticking out the front of handheld cameras. It was how the devices needed to be designed. Same here. It's a freaking small, tiny bump. Big freaking deal! #perspective #firstworldproblem

 

[McWetty]

If Google wasn’t such a data vacuum, I’d have switched to a Pixel Pro last upgrade cycle. But privacy, AirPods and AppleTV keep me in the Apple garden (for now).

 

[klasma]

Is this why the US government wants to separate Google from its ad business?

 

[coolfactor]

If only google made good earphones and good tablets… and laptops with good OS…

Web-app technology has gotten so good, Google can deliver world-class software through a web browser, as they already do.

We already see the hints that everything is going online... even Apple replicates its productivity apps online in iCloud. The days of pure "desktop" apps for many categories are numbered.

 

[kemal]

Google conveniently left out who originally came up with the design....LG/Prada.

 

[ThailandToo]

I have a Pixel 8 Pro. So much nicer than the iPhone in many ways. Except, it’s not as good for typing on somehow. The keyboard just isn’t the same to me. But obviously, the loss of the locked in ecosystem built for anti competition is a big win. I don’t believe anything any of the companies do. It’s all marketing. More power to Google for pointing out how Apple copies them.

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Just having the monotone AI voices doing the ad are enough for me to turn it off.

We see something as lame as this and then people here complain about Apple ads, which at least don't look like a Google intern made them.

 

[colonel179]

How about they make a thicker phone with no freaking camera hump? That would be a truly new design.

With a battery that actually lasts?

I really don't know how it works, but I have a Motorola g60 (which I believe is a cheap phone). If it has 35% battery at 8am, it lasts me all day (8-9pm), and that's my work phone which I use all the time (phone calls, web browsing, constant messaging, emails).

If my iPhone 15 has 35% battery, it doesn't even last by noon, and I don't even use it, it's just standing there in its stand.

At night. I charge the g60 to 100% (unplug at 10pm) and by 6am, it's at 98%. The iPhone it's at 76%. Why?



Apple really needs to do something about the battery already!

 

[Jumpthesnark]

With a battery that actually lasts?

I really don't know how it works, but I have a Motorola g60 (which I believe is a cheap phone). If it has 35% battery at 8am, it lasts me all day (8-9pm), and that's my work phone which I use all the time (phone calls, web browsing, constant messaging, emails).

If my iPhone 15 has 35% battery, it doesn't even last by noon, and I don't even use it, it's just standing there in its stand.

At night. I charge the g60 to 100% (unplug at 10pm) and by 6am, it's at 98%. The iPhone it's at 76%. Why?



Apple really needs to do something about the battery already!

That phone is larger and heavier (despite the plastic back & frame) than the 15, with a larger battery that has a much greater capacity than the 15.

Aside from any software/usage issues that may exist, that's one reason why the two phones would have different battery life right out of the box.

But for your phone to drain, as you say, from 35% to zero in a matter of hours, something else is going on. Perhaps a bad cell signal (which causes the phone to spend a lot of energy on the connection), apps that are running in the background, or something else.