{"id":12750,"date":"2025-08-21T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12750\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:50:07","slug":"google-beats-apple-in-smartphone-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12750\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Beats Apple in Smartphone AI Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> is behind Google<\/a> in the race to add artificial intelligence (AI) features to smartphones, according to Wall Street Journal Personal Tech Columnist Nicole Nguyen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An iPhone<\/a> user, Nguyen wrote<\/a> Wednesday (Aug. 20) that her experience with Google\u2019s upcoming Pixel 10<\/a> showed that Google has \u201clapped\u201d Apple as both companies work to develop the \u201ckiller AI-powered phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nguyen highlighted the Pixel 10\u2019s AI-powered ability to surface information when needed, provide translations via a real-time voice clone and transcript, coach users to take good photos, and edit photos that have already been taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe race continues and for now, Apple has a lot of catching up to do,\u201d Nguyen wrote.<\/p>\n

Apple did not immediately reply to PYMNTS\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n

PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster wrote<\/a> July 23 that Apple faces the risk of its iPhone becoming a commodity because the Pixel 9 has, and Pixel 10 will ship with, embedded AI that lets users speak, search, transact and navigate with a native AI experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cApple can\u2019t match that today,\u201d Webster wrote. \u201cThe risk is how many consumers will keep waiting around for Apple to deliver. It\u2019s a massive pain to switch from iOS to Android devices, and most people don\u2019t. Getting an AI-powered Android device just may be enough for people to dump their iPhones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple has faced AI challenges<\/a> that include investor impatience, talent departures and delayed Siri upgrades, as PYMNTS has chronicled in recent months.<\/p>\n

It was reported Aug. 14 that the company is preparing a comeback in the AI space that includes a redesigned Siri powered by large language models, which could potentially arrive on iPhones and iPads as early as next year.<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s hardware pipeline also includes thinner iPhones this year.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 4, it was reported that Apple held a rare companywide meeting to cover its investment in AI<\/a> and that CEO Tim Cook<\/a> expressed a positive outlook about the company\u2019s AI future.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Cook told workers that Apple has \u201cexciting\u201d plans for AI that he wasn\u2019t able to discuss.<\/p>\n

Earlier, during an earnings call, Cook said the company is making \u201cgood progress\u201d on integrating more AI capabilities in Siri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is behind Google in the race to add artificial intelligence (AI) features to smartphones, according to Wall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[291,821,311,18,823,19,431,17,5,1351,82,2350],"class_list":{"0":"post-12750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-android","10":"tag-apple","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-iphone","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-pymnts-news","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-whats-hot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}