At its one-year IO group discussion Wednesday , Google bring out a peck of unexampled product , features , and overhaul that will roll out over the following month . We get under one’s skin a peek at a new Pixel pill , ascertain , and telephone , a new budget Pixel 6a , the first Android 13 public beta , and exciting search , AI , andapp updates .
But here at Macworld , we could n’t help but mark how familiar many of the announcements sound . There were more than a few feature of speech unveil at IO that are ostensibly rip straight from Apple ’s playbook . Here are 5 feature of speech come to Google and Android devices that Apple user have been bask for years :
Google Wallet
One of the biggest app declaration at IO was the conversion ofGoogle Pay to Google Wallet . Granted , Google Walletwas a thing before Apple Card , but this latest iteration takes more than a few cue from the iPhone app . The Modern Google Wallet , launching presently , is your one - stop lieu for your digital living , storing digital ID , embarkation straits , concert ticket , inoculation cards , loyalty cards , gondola keys , and of course , credit cards . mouth from experience , Android users will bonk it .
Better tablet apps and multitasking
To put it mildly , Google ’s tabletsaren’t exactly in the same conference as the iPad . With Android 13 , Google is wait to change that by steal a little from Apple ’s awesome tablet experience . Among thenew features coming to Android tabletsis easy multitasking that get you expend apps side by side and new interfaces “ to take full reward of the additional blank space including YouTube Music , Google Maps , Messages and more . ” We ’re not certain if that ’s gon na put much of a incision in Apple ’s tablet dominance , but hey , better late than never .
Copy and paste from phones to tablets
Apple users have long had the ability to copy something on their iPhone and paste it on their Mac thanks to the power of Handoff and iCloud , and now Google is bringing the same matter to phones and pad in Android 13 . According to Google , “ you ’ll shortly be able to imitate a uniform resource locator or video from your headphone , and paste it on your pad . ” The system of rules ( seen below ) seems a act clunkier than Apple ’s dead seamlessUniversal Copy and Paste , but hey , it ’s a starting line .
Pixel Buds Pro
Google uncover and tease a cluster of hardware announcements during its IO keynote , including the newbudget Pixel 6a , but the most challenging was thePixel Buds Pro . While no one would fox the Pixel Buds A - Series wireless earbuds with AirPods , the Pixel Buds Pro have a very similar feature mark to AirPods Pro . You get racket - call off , transparentness mode , spatial audio , and ‘ discover my ’ tracking , and an in - pinna design that seems awfully interchangeable to the rumors of theAirPods Pro 2 . Call them rival if you must , but we ’ll just call ’em ape .
Digital Crown
Google discontinue a lilliputian forgetful of releasing its first - ever wearable at Google IO , but it did finally confirm the being of the Pixel Watch . Like other Android Wear O vigil , it has a circular designing with a clean sizeable bezel and a new “ tactile ” crown that seems to be Google ’s edition of the Digital Crown on the Apple Watch . We do n’t know if it ’ll be as smooth as Apple ’s or have a built - in ECG sensing element , but the conception and the look is practically indistinguishable .
