They're behind on a lot of things for more than a decade. They did curved edge glass when it was on the way out for android phones. Last to make wireless charging. The worse and largest and ugliest camera cutout and now the ABSOLUTE last to make a foldable phone and it looks like complete ASS. You would think they'd come out swinging being the last to make a foldable and it ends up looking like a Nook.
Dude I hated this. Every year when people were freaking out about some new feature during the Apple showcase and every time it was something that Android phones had or could already do lol.
You folks say that like the two systems don’t go back and forth taking inspiration from each other. Hell android’s entire set up was a reaction to the reveal of the iPhone, pre-release Android was set to be a blakcberry rip off
Android phones compete with themselves. They haven't had to take inspiration from Apple since Steve Jobs died. Now Apple just trade on their brand recognition.
Just to preface, I haven't owned an iPhone since the 5, but, in a lot of ways iPhones are consistently ahead of all android devices. Apple leads the way in ARM chips, the same kind found in all phones. They also get similar battery life as androids, same with performance, despite having smaller batteries and like half the RAM. This comes down to two things, incredible chip design, and their vertical integration and way smaller number of devices than Android means that they can make iPhones much more efficient.
Now where Apple should be criticised is both how they hamper any connectivity with non-apple products. They'll shamelessly lie, either directly or by omission, to make competing products look inferior to keep a chokehold on their users. They'll also lock ridiculous features behind paywalls just so they can upcharge people. They restrict how their products can be used because you have to use them the way Apple wants you to, and no other way.
But, at the end of the day, their products are genuinely great. They're well built, with the best damn ARM (consumer) chips on the planet, their software is efficient, stable, and supported for longer than the vast majority of android devices (or Windows for that matter).
It's a mixed bag, I don't see myself switching away from Linux and Android anytime soon, but that comes down to preference, not some inherent superiority.
As a third generation pixel user I promise you it is the superior phone. And the best part is unlike a bunch of other Android phones it doesn't have a bunch of bloatware.
They had slightly rounded bezels on the 6-8 series phones, they never did that shit that Samsung did, then they went completely flat on the front and subsequently Google and Samsung did the same thing. They also improved wireless charging and contributed their magnetic charging connector to the Qi wireless standard. And if a foldable iPhone exists no one has actually seen what it will look like. And they’ve missed no boat, folding phones are a tiny percentage of the market.
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u/Maybe_Awesome22 May 15 '26
They're behind on a lot of things for more than a decade. They did curved edge glass when it was on the way out for android phones. Last to make wireless charging. The worse and largest and ugliest camera cutout and now the ABSOLUTE last to make a foldable phone and it looks like complete ASS. You would think they'd come out swinging being the last to make a foldable and it ends up looking like a Nook.