Apple hasn’t been an industry leader for decades. The reality is actually the opposite of what you said. There’s no innovation coming out of iOS. Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS. iPhone does have some good things going for it, but they’re far from innovators or industry leaders these days.
Didn’t say they were. But the pixel 9 undeniably looks more like an iPhone than previous pixels.
Frankly, I haven’t seen anything I would call innovation from any manufacturer in the smartphone industry in years. Just the occasional parlor trick. The industry is continuing its slow crawl towards more and more similar devices.
And I’m writing this from a pixel 8, for whatever that’s worth.
Yeah, for what it’s worth, so people don’t think I’m a fanboy, I am on a Pixel 7, but I bought the iPhone 16 Pro, pretty excited to try it out, and returned it within a week. It did not meet my expectations for a $1200 phone.
No, not really. You just stated it over and over again. I think there is a conflation of innovation and industry leader.
So many tech companies try to copy apple. They try to figure out what makes apple successful and mimic that. Apple continues to grow. Their products are largely loved by people. What else do you need to be an industry leader?
Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS.
These are not statements one would make about an innovative industry leader.
I see copying Apple’s homework continues to be a lucrative, if boring and dystopian, strategy for phone manufacturers
I think it’s great, because you get a good quality phone you can stick Graphene OS on and say fuck off, Google…
Think about it. You get a Google phone, to get further away from Google, because it has the best support for third party ROMs. It’s maddening.
This comment written from a Google Pixel 9.
How’s graphene on the 9? I’m procrastinating but my 5 is dying
Apple hasn’t been an industry leader for decades. The reality is actually the opposite of what you said. There’s no innovation coming out of iOS. Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS. iPhone does have some good things going for it, but they’re far from innovators or industry leaders these days.
Didn’t say they were. But the pixel 9 undeniably looks more like an iPhone than previous pixels.
Frankly, I haven’t seen anything I would call innovation from any manufacturer in the smartphone industry in years. Just the occasional parlor trick. The industry is continuing its slow crawl towards more and more similar devices.
And I’m writing this from a pixel 8, for whatever that’s worth.
Yeah, for what it’s worth, so people don’t think I’m a fanboy, I am on a Pixel 7, but I bought the iPhone 16 Pro, pretty excited to try it out, and returned it within a week. It did not meet my expectations for a $1200 phone.
How exactly has apple not been an industry leader? They are the industry leader.
Didn’t I address that in the comment you’re replying to?
No, not really. You just stated it over and over again. I think there is a conflation of innovation and industry leader.
So many tech companies try to copy apple. They try to figure out what makes apple successful and mimic that. Apple continues to grow. Their products are largely loved by people. What else do you need to be an industry leader?
These are not statements one would make about an innovative industry leader.
Yeah because Apple was the first. 🙄
Apple has quite literally never invented anything, everything they do is copying, shut the hell up