With the iPhone 17 finally getting some long overdue upgrades like a larger and high-refresh rate display, I’ve found myself toying with the idea of switching ecosystems over the past couple of days. It also doesn’t help that Google stumbled out of the gate with the recent Pixel 10 launch. Thanks to the latter’s unexpectedly small performance and battery life gains, I see no compelling reason to upgrade from my Pixel 8.

But after mulling the decision over, I came to realize that I’d be giving up much more than I initially thought if I switched over to an iPhone. And it’s all thanks to Google’s slow but steady creep of useful feature additions to Android over the past couple of years.

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