And whereas I’ve kind of executed the entire “two telephones” factor earlier than, I don’t suppose my expertise has ever been as polarizing as it’s proper now.
Having spent three months utilizing my iPhone 13 mini (and typically, the iPhone 15 Professional Max) alongside the Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold, I’ve come to the conclusion that (proper now) I can’t determine which cellphone I’d hold if I needed to make a REAL alternative.
As of now, the iPhone 13 mini stays the one cellphone I carry in my pocket in all places I’m going due to how extremely compact it’s, whereas the Pixel Fold is simply the right “residence” cellphone due to the plain “mini pill” superpower it possesses.
However there’s far more past that. In reality, the largest causes I hold utilizing an iPhone or an Android don’t have anything to do with the dimensions of the iPhone, or the folding display of the Pixel. So, I’ve tried to place collectively not simply any record, however a listing of sensible causes I hold going again to 1 or the opposite. Every day.And let’s see what we are able to study from it…
The sensible Pixel options I want I had (nearly) each single time I choose up my iPhone
So, let’s leap proper into the sensible causes/options that get me to select up the Pixel over the iPhone.
Shocker, however plenty of it has to do with software program, and/or Synthetic Intelligence… These aren’t so as of significance, so you may choose and select, which of them appear game-changing to you, and which of them look like a function you wouldn’t care about.
Nonetheless, to be honest, among the options are a “don’t knock it earlier than you strive it” case, so hold that in thoughts…
Synthetic Intelligence – Pixel Studio makes the iPhone’s Picture Playground picture generative AI appear like like a joke
Google’s Pixel Studio app recreated precisely what I had in thoughts.
For instance, utilizing Pixel Studio with a sprinkle of creativeness could make you a cool t-shirt patch, or a print design you may then apply to just about something you may consider, and… I don’t know – promote it on eBay. Performers can create a poster for a gig, you may make a marriage invitation – you identify it.
In the meantime, the iPhone’s Picture Playground different is nowhere close to nearly as good – producing cartoonish photographs that wouldn’t be relevant to a lot of the above-mentioned examples.
Now Enjoying – Apple killed Shazam for nothing?
My Pixel at all times is aware of what tune is enjoying within the background.
I used to be on the retailer once I heard an outdated tune I didn’t know the identify of, and I noticed I didn’t have Shazam put in on my iPhone. So… the tune was gone.
Satirically, Apple purchased Shazam years in the past, and for some cause, it’s completely lacking out on the chance to make one thing helpful out of it – like “Now Enjoying” on Pixel.
Nevertheless it will get extra fascinating – I used to be ready to make use of my impeccable buzzing to seek for the tune with the Google app on my iPhone. Certain, I used to be technically capable of finding the tune with my iPhone… However solely due to Google’s app and algorithm.
Magic Editor and Magic Eraser work like… Magic
Magic Eraser is already higher than Clear up in just about each single manner, however Magic Editor is a function Apple doesn’t even have an alternative choice to. You possibly can consider the Magic Editor as Magic Eraser on steroids – it received’t solely take away your background/topic, however exchange it with something you need, which is one thing I can’t do on an iPhone.
However Magic Editor additionally takes the thing removing function to an entire new stage, since it could actually add element again within the image to make the imperfections from the removing course of far much less noticeable.
It’s an enormous win for Pixel on this one.
Circle to Search is presumably the perfect software program function of 2024 (actually my favourite one)
I can maintain down the house button on my Pixel cellphone and translate any textual content on my display… Search something on my display… and take a photograph and search for something I am taking a look at. My iPhones… cannot do any of that.
I can maintain down the house “button” on my Pixel and get choices to translate something on my display (which I do every day), Google Search something, search a tune, and extra. In the meantime, my iPhone 13 can do… completely none of that.
However so as to add insult to damage, Apple has determined to make its Visible Intelligence function (the equal to Circle to Search) unique to the iPhone 16 collection, which implies even my $1,200 iPhone 15 Professional Max will really feel like a 5-year-old iPhone.
I choose up my Pixel to Circle to Search greater than I choose up my iPhone to do absolutely anything else, which speaks for itself.
Folding design + actual multitasking options
That is what multitasking seems to be like.
It’s precisely what it appears like – the Pixel 9 Professional Fold’s folding design and talent to run two “regular measurement” apps side-by-side put any of my iPhones to disgrace.
Don’t knock it earlier than you strive it – the flexibility to make use of two apps concurrently may be tremendous helpful. In my use case, these could be the Amazon app and Chrome, YouTube and Chrome, the Calendar and the Calculator, and so forth.
In fact, the iPhone can’t run two apps concurrently in any respect, which (with folding telephones changing into an increasing number of standard), is beginning to make it appear like a dumb cellphone.
However hey… the folding iPhone is allegedly coming in 2026, so what’s one other two years to attend!
Gemini – not so good as Chat GPT however significantly better than Siri
Evidently, Siri is nowhere close to that stage of sophistication even after the launch of Apple Intelligence, and I’d be shocked if Apple manages to catch as much as Google within the close to future.
For the report, I do suppose Chat GPT trumps each by an honest margin, and Apple does have a take care of Open AI, which already permits Chat GPT to run nearly natively on iPhones with Apple Intelligence (through the Motion or Seize button), and that’s actually a pleasant choice when Siri can’t provide the reply you want (which is nearly at all times).
Beneficiant software program assist and fewer bugs than iPhone on iOS 18 – one other shock win for Pixel given iPhone’s status
Apple is shedding the software program battle to Android. Large time. However that is simply my opinion. No matter.
In the meantime, it’s my iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 13 mini, which present extra bugs than normal.
Pixel is cheaper to purchase after lunch – provides you higher worth (when you hold it lengthy sufficient)
The Pixel’s poor resale worth earlier than (particularly in comparison with the iPhone) is a particular drawback when you’re hoping to get extra money when promoting/trade-in-in your outdated Pixel. That’s a truth. Nonetheless, which means that if you wish to purchase a Pixel cellphone after launch, it’s often an honest quantity cheaper to take action in comparison with shopping for an older iPhone – regardless of how outdated each telephones are.
If you realize you desire a Pixel cellphone, and also you’re OK with shopping for both an older mannequin, or a used/refurbished cellphone, Pixel is a gem, which can provide you nice worth in comparison with the iPhone.
For instance, shopping for a refurbished Pixel 7 Professional could be cheaper than shopping for a refurbished iPhone 14 Professional, and the previous will provide you with an excessive amount of AI options discovered on the newest Pixel 9 collection, whereas the iPhone 14 Professional will provide you with precisely zero Apple Intelligence options.
My Pixel is way from good, however it simply outshines my iPhone relating to software program and AI – and it’s not even shut
Whether or not it is flawed or proper, let’s not neglect that Android provides actual alternative. When you do not just like the Pixel – you may get a Galaxy. And when you do not just like the Galaxy… you’re a hater. Some would say.
However, the iPhone has some apparent strengths, which principally revolve round its {hardware} and the “ecosystem”, which I would talk about in a future story.
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