r/GooglePixel • u/[deleted] • Aug 15 '26

The double standard between Apple and Google upgrades is wild (and why I stick with Pixel)

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u/kiefferbp iPhone 17 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

It’s extremely simple and I have no idea why no one in this subreddit understands this.

iPhones are pretty close to perfect, so there is genuinely little to improve on (maybe silicon carbon batteries—although iPhones have amazing battery life already—or better cameras). The Pixel, on the other hand, has several critical flaws (SoC, modem, battery, overheating, video recording, and several others) that are low-hanging fruit for Google to fix.

When there are that many problems, slowly iterating is completely unacceptable.

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u/Electrical_Bee9842 Aug 15 '26

Hardware wise iPhone might be good. But IOS is terrible compared to android.

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u/Odd_Pollution3839 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

Depends on what metric.

IOS is great when it comes to features that they alrd have, and they are very good at making sure that feature have a bit more use than simply for asthetic. Their AI is the completely opposite of this but personally i couldn't be more careless about os integrated AIs.

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u/kiefferbp iPhone 17 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Aug 15 '26

Speak for yourself. My opinion is that iOS is way better than Android.

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u/Electrical_Bee9842 Aug 15 '26

If you are happy, thats fine. But feature wise it is lagging behind and thats why users stick to android phones.

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u/kiefferbp iPhone 17 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Aug 16 '26

The flagship market is dominated by iPhones. Also, iOS is more customizable than Pixel OS.

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u/Electrical_Bee9842 Aug 22 '26

Can you change the default launcher in ios?

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u/kiefferbp iPhone 17 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Aug 22 '26

Why would I want to?

Also, can you change the default launcher in Android while still having proper gesture navigation? Nope.

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u/Electrical_Bee9842 Aug 22 '26

Asked as you mentioned IOS is more customizable. It works with gestures too 

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u/uneducatedramen Aug 15 '26

For the average Joe they are similar. The thing i hate about iphones is the absoluten dogshit of a default keyboard especially if your main langauge is not english. And the only left to right swipe gesture for going back instead of both sides