iOS is adding the menu transparency that desktops have had for over 15 years. Android is adding AI. They are both just adding things that people already use and are calling them new.
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iOS has a design change, but otherwise there is nothing interesting. Smartphones have been around for a quarter of a century, both smartphone hardware and software are extremely mature.
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I just got Android 16 via OTA update yesterday. Nothing changed.
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It’s a short, and very general overview of the OSs. Kind of pointless. Non-paywalled link.
... for the worse
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Apple’s going to add some transparency to buttons and call it a groundbreaking redesign while Android is going to go all in on AI.
So iPhones will become more Apple and Android will become more Google.
What I hate about these AI-comparison articles is that nobody of those so-called "journalists" understands, that Apple's AI runs locally on the device. Whereas Gemini runs in Google's cloud - which in turn means that Google get's a copy of every single request/prompt. Also, no mention of iOS 26's new call screening feature - which asks unknown callers for their name and purpose of the call and displays this on the screen before your phone starts to ring. And, again, it's all happening on-device.
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Paywalled, so here's an archive link: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dXVz1
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