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As much of an Android fan as I am, I still carry an iPhone in my pocket. I switched to the iPhone Air last year, and even though it doesn’t have the most advanced cameras, I usually have phones like the Oppo Find X9 Ultra or the Galaxy S26 Ultra in my other pocket anyway.
That said, Apple has been making a few decisions lately around the iPhone and iOS experience that have slowly started pushing me closer to switching fully to Android. Liquid Glass, for example, is something I genuinely can’t stand.
And after watching The Android Show earlier this month, some of the Android 17 features Google announced honestly impressed me enough that if Apple doesn’t make some major changes with iOS 27 at WWDC 2026 next month, I genuinely don’t think I’ll be sticking with the iPhone side this year.
Would Android 17 tempt you away from iPhone? 19 votes Yes, definitely 26 % Maybe, depends on iOS 27 16 % No, sticking with iPhone 21 % I already switched 37 %
Rambler
I’ve always wondered who actually prefers speaking out text instead of typing. Sure, speech-to-text can be useful sometimes, but I was never the kind of person who would dictate everything by voice. That changed completely once I started using Wispr Flow on my Mac last year. At this point, for most things I do on my laptop, I just hold down the function key and speak naturally while it turns everything into properly formatted text.
Google is finally bringing something very similar to Pixel phones later this year with Android 17, and it’s called Rambler. Similar to Wispr Flow, Rambler understands natural human speech patterns, including pauses, filler words, corrections, and background noise, and then uses AI to turn all of that into cleaner, properly structured sentences.
I think it’ll make a huge difference on smartphones too, especially since I’m constantly chatting, texting, and emailing people throughout the day. Sure, Wispr Flow technically exists on Android already, but in my experience, it never felt particularly convenient.
Having this functionality built directly into Gboard feels like a much better implementation, especially because Google says the processing can happen on-device and even support multilingual input at the same time.
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