Joe Mark / Android Authority
We all have a friend who is always late. It doesn’t matter when you tell them or how much reminders you give them, they may not appear on time. And still, you are always happy to see them walking through the door. You knew they would eventually get there, or at least you hope. Well, that friend is Apple today, and the party that finally arrived is the basic calling features. The year can be 2025, but I’m happy to party like 2018 – if only for a day.
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You know what they say about imitation and flattery
Andy Walker / Android Authority
Pixel 8A
I got it, Apple, Google is easy to see. Its pixel design is more fun than the iPhone, its content looks clean from 3 expressive update liquid glass, and its overall AI experience, better, better. I’m in a hurry to recommend a pixel in search of my next phone, more than I have been with the iPhone. Therefore, of course, it is understood that Apple’s end at the king’s call is a calling feature. Just now, I think I was surprised that it took such a long time.
However, after being in college, some of Google’s best calling features have come to a close. He introduced the call screen on the Pixel 3 series and followed the hold for Pixel 5 two years later. I was already jealous when my room came home with a new pixel at the Christmas break, and I tested another for myself when I was upgraded before I really came from my scattered Galaxy S10. Surprisingly, they quickly became so good and so helpful that I almost forgot that they were there – I just relied on them as if they were always present.
To listen to Apple, call screening and holding help was still impossible … but as Google Fan, I know better.
But now, Apple developed to introduce both features as part of the iOS 26, I wonder what happened so long. Did we not appreciate Google’s smart calling features when they were new? To listen to Apple, the call screening is built directly at the base set by the Voicemail, which has been going on only since the IOS 17 at the end of 2023. Google has offered a copy of the voicemail since launching Google Voice in 2009 – if you ask me, this is quite a distance. However, Google did not announce that its screening process was based on the voicemail leave, so I am not sure why Apple feels like that.
I think the call for the delay in joining Google to select Apple by Google is not so worth considering – instead of eight years instead of eight years – but I’m not sure it’s better than that. I mean, Google had previously discovered that Gemini was nothing more than a tower and he still sent a flagship phone with just a rear camera, but Apple was too busy to slowly add 5G support to the iPhone 12 series.
It may be a good thing that Apple is finally showing the party
Robert Triggs / Android Authority
Then once again, maybe I shouldn’t be so down about iOS 26. Do I like the shape of a liquid glass? No, is anyone? However, by hurting some long -lasting Android properties, I at least feel like Apple is showing a symbol of life. It is eventually looking outside the wall with its wall and on the other hand looking for a minimum green patch of green. Certainly, those patches have existed for almost a decade, but as they say, not longer than ever.
In addition, sometimes it seems that a push from Apple is all right that Google and Samsung’s choice needs to increase their game. They got a little rest in the way an UI and Pixel UI had been a long time, letting important improvements follow the smart new AI wrinkles, so I hope that the raid on Apple’s classic calling features forcing them both to think about them a little more about their phone. And, now that Apple is introducing the customs background in the iMessage conversation, before we see that it is just a matter of time.
Commercial features are a part of life, but can we stop making camera apps easy?
If I hope to see the end as soon as possible, though, this is a tendency to simplify the camera interface, as seen above. Google was the king of a long, long -term smooth camera app, which completely ignored the manual controls of “just trust us” and now Apple is doing the same. It has boiled everything in two tabs you see above, and pushes everything into the camera control circle or in the right side menu, and I don’t think I like it. I was fine to rely on Google’s photo processing, but Apple has not yet made that so much reputation.
So, please think twice before copying Apple, Pixel 3 too much. It was a great phone in the day, but the times have changed a bit.
