You should, it's a great Hw and the material design 3 is a treat.
It's good to be able to use both, my pick nowadays is Pixel, who knows next year or the next one, but the past one was Android and this will be again a Pixel.
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Google Mocks iPhone in Musical ‘Wicked’ Ad Claiming Pixel Firsts
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It's good to be able to use both, my pick nowadays is Pixel, who knows next year or the next one, but the past one was Android and this will be again a Pixel.
I love this but I also have had this song stuck in my head for the last half year or so in anticipation
Handed my iPhone to an Android user and his first comment was "This keyboard is amazing!"... that was his first impression compared to his years of Android experience. I agree; the Android keyboards that I've seen are generally poorly designed and awkward.
This ad by Google is very strange... it does nothing to really sell the Pixel on its strengths. If anything, the iPhone looks more advanced with its larger camera array.
This ad by Google is very strange... it does nothing to really sell the Pixel on its strengths. If anything, the iPhone looks more advanced with its larger camera array.
You can tweak Liquid Glass in many ways. Why keep it in its stock form only to complain, when the solution is right there waiting for you? I've enabled "Accessibility > Increase Contrast" and it's much better for my eyes.
I remember when Google's motto was Don't Be Evil... and then it wasn't.. which is why I will never touch an Android phone. I'm not carrying around a device of a company who's revenue model is based on aggregating your personal information and using it to profit from.
Apple makes their profit from selling software and hardware. Google makes their profit by monetizing YOU!
Apple makes their profit from selling software and hardware. Google makes their profit by monetizing YOU!
Looking at it from another angle... wouldn't frequent updates to the OS and stock apps mean they are constantly finding weaknesses and problems, whereas iOS is stable and secure, and doesn't need as many updates?
I had a Pixel 9 Pro XL for a while, and while the build quality was nice, the software wasn’t. The UI feels so bubbly and cartoony, and the battery life was horrible. I actually went back to my iPhone 14 Pro Max instead and now the Pixel rots in a drawer. Just not for me, I guess, but I did give it a try.
Just turn off motion, and set transparency to off (tint up or whatever it is) and the UI is even faster than before. Does the design language still suck? Of course, those barless buttons in safari with an extra layer (tap) to get to the tab controls sucks. But it's far from the first to go that route, and hopefully they'll fix it sooner than later.
It isn't that I'm averse to change, it's that I'm averse to change that makes things harder, which includes change for change's sake to freshen things up as it makes it harder to use the new device.
Until I can totally get rid of the obnoxious borders around the icons and widgets, I’m going to complain about it. I’ve reduced motion, and increased contrast.
..and I don’t want reduced transparency, I want zero. I’ve hated transparency since the Vista days.
But every time an iOS .x patch comes out, it's followed with an article on macrumors saying it fixes 50+ security issues, some of which were being actively exploited.
More Wicked garbage tie-in slop?
Listen, I'm tired of this. I've seen a sign in town advertising "the wicked barber". I've seen ads for cars. I've seen ads for food. What in the world is supposed to get me to want to buy a car after purportedly seeing this movie, let alone a Pixel?
Listen, I'm tired of this. I've seen a sign in town advertising "the wicked barber". I've seen ads for cars. I've seen ads for food. What in the world is supposed to get me to want to buy a car after purportedly seeing this movie, let alone a Pixel?
Movie studio executives know theaters are on their last legs, so they’re praying over saturation will get you to relent and watch the movie they’ve spent millions on.
Pixel marketing team keeps targeting the iPhone, behaving as if competition between Android phones doesn't exist.
Your experience is very common and the kind that drives markets and marketing. Spec heads are so interested in pushing the tech envelope that they forget consumer devices are bought by consumers.
Try looking at your accessibility options.
Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size
Turn off "Show borders". Experiment with other settings too.
Except they left out the part about iphone coming out first and rat Schmitt sat on the Apple board taking notes and stabbing his friend Steve Jobs in the back.
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about the person you’re arguing with, and for someone talking about “rewriting history” you continuously leave out how prior to the A7 it was iPhone fans who argued till they were blue in the face that benchmarks didn’t matter. How do you know that this person hasn’t argued “benchmarks don’t matter” the entire time and has never shifted their position?
Especially in the year where every feature of the new pixel phones that are lauded by reviewers are features directly copied from apple (like "pixelsnap", which is literally magsafe that apple donated the specs for, or now private compute and airdrop) this ad is really disingenuous. Let's not forget what the whole of Android looked like before the iPhone and then after the iPhone... Sure, android gets some features first, but implying that iOS is the one that constantly needs android for inspiration. Damn
Google this week shared a new ad in its ongoing anti-Apple "BestPhonesForever" series, this time leaning into the launch of the new Wicked: For Good movie that's out in theaters.
The spot features an iPhone fawning over a Pixel smartphone before breaking into the Wicked: For Good song. Google suggests that it was first to multiple features that the iPhone then copied, like screening phone calls and removing unwanted images from photos.It's not clear how Google's ad featuring singing smartphones might attract customers to Pixel devices given that it doesn't share details on any actual features.
Google has been sharing ads that pit its Pixel smartphones against the iPhone since 2023, and it's become a popular ad campaign with Pixel fans with more than 30 in the series. The ads typically include feature comparisons or criticize the iPhone for lacking features like conversational AI.
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