Why would iPhone users use the flash??? Using Night Mode and adjusting exposure levels is the way a normal iPhone user takes pictures of a night sky. Why is google depicting their iPhone's photography usage this misleading way?
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Google's Humorous New Pixel Ads Argue the iPhone Has Plateaued
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Apple iPhone and Google Pixel are laying in the sand.
To entertain the people and sit in people's hands.
To entertain the people and sit in people's hands.
I've been on an 11 Pro since it launched. I have had no desire to upgrade. iOS has changed but really, what more has it added?
my Android phone battery last longer than iPhone coz i dont use it. 
The Note series and the S series were redundant. That's why merging the two made sense especially when the second half of the year is devoted to foldable.
The reason you didn't like the battery life is because until last year, the flagship Android chipsets were all fabbed with Samsing foundries which are terrible at efficiency and the Pixel chipset is no exception.
If you buy an Android using a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip battery life is on par with the iPhone.
Also I would never advise an iPhone user to get a Pixel. Hardware is just not good enough even though the software is. Samsung matches iPhones in hardware.
I think you are out of the loop a bit. Samsung promises 4 years of software updates and 5 years of security updates. That's longer than Google which promises 3/4.
Considering Apple discontinued the iPhone X after just 5 years of software updates, there really isn't a huge difference.
Arguably I would say the Samsung phones are updated longer than the iPhone because on Android all system apps and security updates are decoupled from the OS and located in Play services. This makes OS updates less relevant.
Half of what Apple announced for iOS 17 would have just been a app update on Android
If you put aside your like or dislike for iPhone and Pixel, you should be able to simply appreciate the creativity and humour in these videos. I least I can.
This is all true. It’s exactly what we want and the Pro models seem to promise that but Apple always omits something that almost every other device on the market has. They are good at maximizing profit.
I think a lot of Apple’s user base wants durable hardware and familiar UI and Apple is keen to exploit that by being slow to implement changes until they can make features their own, keeping the long term conservative tech users happy and every so often picking up platform hoppers who always want the bleeding edge.
It seems to be a good business model so I doubt that will change any time soon, though the Vision Pro and features like Face ID shows they can engineer the best of the best anytime they really want to.
Uhhh, not sure what world you live in, but most “boomers” are Android users. The younger generations almost exclusively use Apple.
Not all of it can. Not if you don't want to give up Google Play Services altogether and all the functionality that comes with it.
And if you keep it, you're keeping the worst data harvesting bloatware out there.
If you buy a SD Gen 2 device then yes, in head to head battery tests it's pretty efficient. In real world usage, over the duration of a typical day, Android has way too much garbage telemetry and data harvesting that dents your battery life pretty significantly.
I used rooted Android flagships for the past 10 years and I've given up trying to mess with this data collection machine and optimize it.
Apple had built a formidable ecosystem around the iPhone and Google is stuck fighting the early wars of 2010 by comparing individual features which consumers simply no longer care about.
It’s not enough to be able to take a photo that is clearer than the iPhone’s, or have a display that’s better. You gotta beat the entire Apple ecosystem, and in that regard, android is way behind.
And Apple has already announced the vision pro, and Google is still talking about phones.
There is nothing google can do at this point that can remotely threaten Apple.
It’s not enough to be able to take a photo that is clearer than the iPhone’s, or have a display that’s better. You gotta beat the entire Apple ecosystem, and in that regard, android is way behind.
And Apple has already announced the vision pro, and Google is still talking about phones.
There is nothing google can do at this point that can remotely threaten Apple.
People still care about phones, smartphones are the market consumers care about not VR/AR
I haven't heard a single mention of Vision Pro from anybody I know, they aren't selling those to in any volume at all.
Lol, why is everyone butt hurt? It's light humour, and most are true.
It comes down to driving force within the company. The last iPhone with any big features nobody else had was arguably the 10 which was 7 years ago. I’m not saying that they need to come up with anything as groundbreaking as FaceID any time soon but an Ultra iPhone that packs in as much tech as possible alongside the existing models wouldn’t go amiss.
A smaller magnetic Pencil, manual camera settings, periscope zoom, USB 4.0; there is a lot to pack in if they wanted.
If they can do it with the Watch….
I think its OK to admit that Apple don't exactly innovate, and that any innovation that did happen in terms of product and design ended with Steve and Jonny Ive.
I dunno.... Funny ads are usually pretty effective. It'll create some buzz if nothing else.
Truth is, all smartphone have plateaued. Like all technologies, they reach maturity and then change is more incremental. Nobody's amazed at how completely different and new the latest microwave oven or toaster is.
I have always seen this as a desperate last resort for boosting sales. If a product is not good enough on its own, without comparing to a specific brand and model, it is doomed.
And I do remember the Mac and PC commercials. And though I found them somewhat funny, same premise. Just don’t.
And I do remember the Mac and PC commercials. And though I found them somewhat funny, same premise. Just don’t.
I've always viewed price cuts as a last resort for a failed product, but they took that path from day 1.
I don't really get ads like this. They just come off as saying "see, we're obsessed with our competitors. Are you too? Well that's a reason to buy our thing."
It worked once with Mac vs PC but there were a bunch of circumstances there; the actors were brilliant, the ads were funny, visually they didn't look like much else on TV, and "PC" wasn't really a specific competitor. "Monopoly" was on consumers' minds in a big way. I think that might be the only time this works.
I mean the iPhone came out first . . . fifteen years ago.
It worked once with Mac vs PC but there were a bunch of circumstances there; the actors were brilliant, the ads were funny, visually they didn't look like much else on TV, and "PC" wasn't really a specific competitor. "Monopoly" was on consumers' minds in a big way. I think that might be the only time this works.
I mean the iPhone came out first . . . fifteen years ago.
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