I’m glad Google’s Pixel 9 is stealing the iPhone’s emergency SOS feature

I love that it's 2024, and there are people in the world who are still dunking on Apple, Google, and Samsung for ripping features off of each other. With smartphones really getting to a place of maturity and upgrades being more iteration at this point than huge jumps, there's really only one way to set apart your new phone from your old one — steal someone else's idea.

And that's fine! I'm cool with that — especially when the features that companies are ripping off each other are health or safety-related, and that's exactly what it appears Google is preparing to do with the Pixel 9.

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