So the message of the commercial is..."iPhone now has the same feature that Google had". So if those were features you needed, and chose Android, you can now switch to iPhone?
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Google Says iOS 26 Copies Three Android Features
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So, I guess if Apple doesn’t do a feature first they shouldn’t do it?
Well, Hold for Me never made it to Europe AFAIK, so Apple might very well be first here.
I, like many of us, have so much money invested in apple products that really only work with other apple devices (Watch, AirPods). Once you get into an ecosystem it's really difficult to justify switching. Apple knows this and it doesn't really have to release ground breaking features because it knows it kind of has us by the short hairs.
Yes because so many people were doing the Dynamic Island before apple, or creating their own chips after Intel dropped the ball, or creating spacial computing systems (not to be confused with standard VR headsets, very different things).
Since Google copied the idea of a buttonless smartphone, the overall phone design, touch controls and everything else since 2007 - I think they don’t have the right to say anything.
The whole copying features is moot now that they have all borrowed from each other. And pretty funny that Google is trying to make their point using a phone that owes all of it's design cues to the iPhone.
Didn't google just add live activities after Apple?
What about time remaining until battery full? We are only now getting it, when it's been around on phones that are far from top-of-the-line for the longest time.
Maybe if Apple focused more on innovating in the smartphone department than on their latest movie then we would actually get some new features that aren't "inspired" by other manufacturers' devices.
Maybe if Apple focused more on innovating in the smartphone department than on their latest movie then we would actually get some new features that aren't "inspired" by other manufacturers' devices.
cool. android copied iOS. entirely.
The tech media never makes a big deal about Google copying Apple
So in the future, when others copy Apple we are going to call it "catching up" and not "copying"
Right?
Right!??
I always wonder how effective this approach is. Anytime you have two competing systems, each may add features the other had first. Moreover, any advantages each platform had over the other were already “priced in,” so the real question is how each stacks up against its competition at any given point, not what it had to do to get there.
don't know about the latest copying, but in the past something that set Apple's copying apart was that they got it better instead of just copying over. Features that were kinda-sorta implemented but had known issues/limitations, were copied over without them, or improved in ways the original wasn't.
And yes I do think Apple is copying everything the thing is useful from others, and I'm all for it -- less reasons to leave the platform.
And yes I do think Apple is copying everything the thing is useful from others, and I'm all for it -- less reasons to leave the platform.
can you elaborate on "samsung's designs"? Didnt they start making the galaxy phones look almost identical to iphones as of the last couple launches?
Google needs to sit down when it comes to 'they copied us' claims. Hot take, but I cannot stand this company. The only thing they were actually good at (in my view) was search, but that is a hot mess right now. Google and Meta are too big and too dangerous (you can laugh now, just wait), and they need to be scrutinized and tamed, but let's keep going after (just) TikTok while ignoring these two, or clutch-pearls about Apple's App Store.
"Now these features will be available to millions and millions more people!" said the iPhone
And the Pixel 9 Pro went silent.
And the Pixel 9 Pro went silent.
Google kinda makes this sound like a bad thing but I feel like these features are just good quality of life things that Apple should have adopted sooner.
However, this does show that iPhone users go for years without the features available on Android making iOS into poor man's Android.
Hey, Ford, stop putting four tires on your trucks like Chevy. Both sides are just making the innovations better.
