Google this week shared a new ad in its ongoing anti-Apple “BestPhonesForever” series, this time leaning into the launch of the new Wicked: For Good movie that’s out in theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The spot features an iPhone<\/a> fawning over a Pixel smartphone before breaking into the Wicked: For Good song. Google suggests that it was first to multiple features that the \u200ciPhone\u200c then copied, like screening phone calls and removing unwanted images from photos.<\/p>\n Oh Pixel, I’m so lucky to have a friend like you. You’ve always inspired me!<\/p>\n You do things first that show me the way. Like fixing photos, screening calls, or building an AI assistant you can have real conversations with.<\/p>\n It’s not clear how Google’s ad featuring singing smartphones might attract customers to Pixel devices given that it doesn’t share details on any actual features.<\/p>\n Google has been sharing ads<\/a> that pit its Pixel smartphones against the \u200ciPhone\u200c since 2023, and it’s become a popular ad campaign with Pixel fans with more than 30<\/a> in the series. The ads typically include feature comparisons or criticize the \u200ciPhone\u200c for lacking features like conversational AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google this week shared a new ad in its ongoing anti-Apple “BestPhonesForever” series, this time leaning into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[304,3652,8403,641,11814,2306,7516,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-276611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-ios","10":"tag-ipad","11":"tag-iphone","12":"tag-mac","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-rumors","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}