Google Mocks iPhone in Musical ‘Wicked’ Ad Claiming Pixel Firsts

[falainber]

Yes. They have an inferior micro-architecture (like Intel) and have to resort to adding cores and cranking clock speeds to get equivalent performance.

Did you notice that Apple uses M processors with higher clock speeds and more cores in more expensive/powerful Macs? Losers. What matters is not the clock speed or the number of cores but the actual performance. Higher performance can be achieved with both higher clocks (with less operations per clock cycle) and lower clocks (with more operations per clock cycle).

 

[star-affinity]

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.

Interesting. My impression is generally that people think the opposite – the Android keyboard is better and more feature rich, for example having an always visible numbers row on top of the keyboard.

 

[justanotherdave]

Did you notice that Apple uses M processors with higher clock speeds and more cores in more expensive/powerful Macs? Losers. What matters is not the clock speed or the number of cores but the actual performance. Higher performance can be achieved with both higher clocks (with less operations per clock cycle) and lower clocks (with more operations per clock cycle).

I guess then by your logic I can compare the M5 to the Snapdragon Elite Gen 5. M5 has 3 prime cores and 6 efficiency cores. Elite Gen 5 has 2 primes cores but 6 performance cores. All clocked much higher than the M5. Yet the M5 trounces the Elite Gen 5.

Getting more performance out of a single core is impressive. Simply adding cores or jumping clock speeds isn’t. It’s a hack method of getting performance out of inferior cores.

 

[falainber]

I guess then by your logic I can compare the M5 to the Snapdragon Elite Gen 5. M5 has 3 prime cores and 6 efficiency cores. Elite Gen 5 has 2 primes cores but 6 performance cores. All clocked much higher than the M5. Yet the M5 trounces the Elite Gen 5.

Getting more performance out of a single core is impressive. Simply adding cores or jumping clock speeds isn’t. It’s a hack method of getting performance out of inferior cores.

The most compute intensive tasks usually benefit from extra cores. By your logic, the best CPU wouldbe the one with a single huge core. The problem? It would be smoked by multicore CPUs. Nobody makes suchCPUs anymore.

 

[justanotherdave]

The most compute intensive tasks usually benefit from extra cores. By your logic, the best CPU wouldbe the one with a single huge core. The problem? It would be smoked by multicore CPUs. Nobody makes suchCPUs anymore.

Android doesn’t have any Apps that can make use of all those cores. And the bottom line is more cores with higher clock speeds and massive heat generation only gets you a marginal increase in peak performance while getting lower performance in sustained loads.

In short Qualcomm have made a processor for the spec sheet fanboys so they can put up some big numbers in short-term benchmarks but lag behind in actual real-world usage all while consuming more power.

Hardly impressive.

Then again, to be expected. The Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop processor was supposed to be an Apple M killer and when real devices shipped they were anything but. All hype no meat.

After certain key Apple processor engineers left to form Nuvia, and then Nuvia was bought by Qualcomm we were supposed to see the end of Apple and the dominance of Qualcomm. I’m still waiting.

 

[N47H]

Fair play to Google, that was quite a clever use of Movie Sponsorship to make a reasonably witty advert. And it’s not just the typical Samsung cheap shots, it’s genuine acknowledgement of the complete and utter stagnation in Apple’s hardware innovation.

When the best they can do is “we’ve made the camera bump bigger” or “we’ve gimped the tech inside to make it pointlessly thinner, but still with a huge camera bump” then it’s not surprising that Google with it’s much smaller share of the hardware market is able to make such jibes at Apple.

It’s painfully obvious we need something more from this company that was at one point at the forefront of innovation, let’s be honest Apple were the true pioneers of the bar phone and smartphone market, and they’ve just decided to sit there and bask in complacency. They get away with it for now, but they can’t coast forever.

I’m also a bit embarrassed reading some of the comments in here of what I can only assume are grown adults taking offence to an advert because it accurately mocks their phone of choice. Guys it’s a phone, not your child.

I’m a staunch iPhone advocate but I’m not going to get upset by a rival company taking a swing at my phone regardless of if it’s true or not. I’ve no emotional attachment to my phone, and nor should anyone else, it’s silicon, glass and metal.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

Google phones are on average 40% slower than iPhones in benchmarks.

The CPU and GPU are the most important things in any computing device.

Sounds like a PC ad.

85+% of users would never know. TikTok just as well on both.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

Yeah, fair point—Apple's hardware innovation has definitely slowed under Tim Cook (more iterative upgrades, catching up on AI/photo features Pixel pioneered years ago). But iOS is still the smoothest, most polished, privacy-focused OS out there. Android feels fragmented and buggy by comparison, even on Pixel. Cook seemed to have perfected the ecosystem; he just stopped revolutionizing the phone itself. 😅

Right now Android 16 on the Pixel feels WAY more polished than iOS 26. Waaaaay more.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

Why don't we turn off Wifi and Cellular Data and see what Pixel 10 Pro can actually do?

My iPhone would be worthless in that case.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

People cared a LOT when Android devices were faster than iPhones. Benchmarks were the hottest topic in online discussion forums.

Then the A7 debuted (first 64bit ARM mobile processor with advanced features no Android device had like wide superscalar architecture) and crushed processors from Qualcomm or Samsung. Suddenly benchmarks didn’t matter anymore.

You can literally trace this shift in thinking to the Anandtech article in 2013 where they did a deep dive on the A7. All Anandtech did was tell the truth about the superiority of the A7 vs everyone else and they were accused of being Apple shills. Shortly after benchmarks didn’t matter and new fake benchmarks appeared (like App races).


Benchmarks still matter and processor power still matters.

85+% of users would never know in daily usage. 99.9999% would not follow ancient benchmark history like you have here.

 

[indefinite]

My iPhone would be worthless in that case.

My point was that the AI features Google advertises in their promo video only work because their phone is connected to a server that runs AI. The iPhone 17 Pro has a comparatively better benchmark to the Pixel 10 Pro, yet it is much more capable of running ML/AI tasks.

 

[Black Magic]

Fair play to Google, that was quite a clever use of Movie Sponsorship to make a reasonably witty advert. And it’s not just the typical Samsung cheap shots, it’s genuine acknowledgement of the complete and utter stagnation in Apple’s hardware innovation.

When the best they can do is “we’ve made the camera bump bigger” or “we’ve gimped the tech inside to make it pointlessly thinner, but still with a huge camera bump” then it’s not surprising that Google with it’s much smaller share of the hardware market is able to make such jibes at Apple.

It’s painfully obvious we need something more from this company that was at one point at the forefront of innovation, let’s be honest Apple were the true pioneers of the bar phone and smartphone market, and they’ve just decided to sit there and bask in complacency. They get away with it for now, but they can’t coast forever.

I’m also a bit embarrassed reading some of the comments in here of what I can only assume are grown adults taking offence to an advert because it accurately mocks their phone of choice. Guys it’s a phone, not your child.

I’m a staunch iPhone advocate but I’m not going to get upset by a rival company taking a swing at my phone regardless of if it’s true or not. I’ve no emotional attachment to my phone, and nor should anyone else, it’s silicon, glass and metal.

It seems like some people might not fully grasp what innovation means or how uncommon it is. Companies are lucky if they manage to innovate just once in their existence. Take cars, for example—they’re mostly the same each year, with just a small tweak or a feature that was taken out a decade ago. Apple is definitely the top dog in smartphones. Other companies advertise Apple because they know they’re the leader and try everything they can to make you think their phones are better. Apple doesn’t mention anyone else in their ads because why give extra attention to products that aren’t as good? You’ll notice that most competitor products go on sale around Black Friday or randomly throughout the year. Apple rarely drops prices, and they still lead the way.

 

[justanotherdave]

85+% of users would never know in daily usage. 99.9999% would not follow ancient benchmark history like you have here.

Doesn’t change the hypocrisy of Android users online who did a complete 180 when Apple gained the lead.

But it’s much worse than that. They didn’t simply change their view. They actively spread misinformation to try and discredit the A7 processor and its abilities. They tried to discredit people who simply reported the facts about the A7 via a deep-dive analysis. They were accused of being paid by Apple to lie about the A7 and its performance.

People were furious when the A7 came out. That’s not normal behavior.

 

[Doctor Q]

The Pixel smartphone got the lyrics wrong.

Pixel:

"Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood."​

Correct song lyrics:

"Like a seed dropped by a skybird in a distance wood."​

Maybe its spell-correct feature didn't find the word skybird in the dictionary, and its map app decided that the wood wasn't sufficiently distant.

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

Yeah nothing wrong with a lil friendly competition. But when one side constantly comes at you….and you CONTINUE to do business with them…bleh.

Hopefully one day Apple breaks completely free from droid/giigle search payments etc.

 

[MacBH928]

thanks, i'd rather not to purchase a personal surveillance system