- A new Google Pixel announcement #BestphonesForever appears
- He highlights the features that iOS 26 borrows from Android
- However, Google has copied from Apple in the past
Google has published another of its promotional clips #BestphonesForever, where we generally get an iPhone that chats with a pixel handset – and this time there are a few excavations that iOS 26 copy of Android and the best pixel phones.
THE new clip Put the two phones in a podcast style format, and the iPhone talks about three new features in iOS 26: live translations on several applications, keep assistance to keep your place online in a call queue and calls for calls to obtain information on unknown appellants before resuming.
In response, Google Phone stresses that pixels have similar features since 2021, 2020 and 2018 respectively – something that the iPhone in the clip puts a simple coincidence. It took a while to catch up in these areas.
Last month, the previous clip In the series, photography in night mode has highlighted, the AI image edition (in the form of Android Magic Eraser and iOS cleans) and widgets of home screen as features that Apple had borrowed from Google over the years.
Copy and paste
There is no refutation of the statements that Google makes here: he had these features on his pixel phones before Apple adds them to the iPhone. It is also fair to emphasize, of course, that Apple, Samsung and Google have all been copying for many years.
For example, Android 16 by Google and Samsung One 7 add something very similar to live activities on the iPhone, which Apple added in 2022. Functionalities mean that users can more easily access information on the screen, such as hours of arrival in the cabin or sports scores.
In the end, a good idea of functionality for a phone will work on Android and iOS – so it is not surprising that these days, there are fewer differences between platforms than ever. Apple fans would say that iOS implements these features in better way, even if it takes more time.
An area where Apple would admit that it is lagging behind is AI. We know that it has trouble upgrading Siri with Gemini – but again, Siri launched about five years ahead of Google Assistant.
