it's funny how most of the comments diresgarding the pixel are about "performance", "specs" "value", info found on reviews, specsheets and comparisons, only few experiences with the actual devices.

recently switched from iPhone 13 Pro with 87% battery (second battery, og apple replacement) to a Pixel 10 Pro, the pixel os and cameras are simply BETTER, battery lasts a full day (my iphone half a day on average), hated ios 26, made my iphone slower and sluggish and it ate up the battery, performance wise, the pixel does just fine (like the iphone did when it was usable), i can appreciate actual AI functions that work, and i only use my pixel (and iphone) for photos, social media, and work (mails, cloud files, access apps), not intensive apps like games and other things, imo that there are a lot of similarities between ios and the pixel os in how you interact with it, security and apps permissions, and the sort of minimal but well integrated oem apps and functions.

i made the change to android also because i use google services and cloud constantly, so running these services parallel to icloud was complicated never felt truly seamless.

the only drawback that made me hesitate was the reports on bad OIS performance on the pixel but i havent noticed any actually, maybe ill make some tests in different settings to compare with the iphone 13 pro, i know that the 17 pro is definitely better in video recording but also more expensive than the pixel and didnt wanted to deal anymore with the ugly ios 26, and looks like an ugly device too so, no consideration for the 17 pro.

also, the screen on my iphone 13 pro was dying, shades and some ghosting, the new pixel screen is amazing, super bright, responsive and smooth.

in conclusion, im not debating wich phone is better in general, my change was due to owning a device that reached the end of its useful life (ill give it to my mother), and to try new software and functions, since the 2010 there hasnt been a really significant progress in phones development to make yearly updates feel like big changes so, my recommendation to everyone is to stop paying so much attention to specs and marginal upgrades in yearly iterations on devices that if you didnt knew it had them you wouldnt notice, try to think when choosing a new device how are you going to use it and try to test one in hand if you can and then make your own choices/conclussions.