{"id":264743,"date":"2026-06-05T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/apples-latest-android-joke-would-have-made-sense-10-years-ago-not-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:25:10","slug":"apples-latest-android-joke-would-have-made-sense-10-years-ago-not-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/apples-latest-android-joke-would-have-made-sense-10-years-ago-not-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s latest Android joke would have made sense 10 years ago \u2014 not in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/apples-latest-android-joke-would-have-made-sense-10-years-ago\">Apple&#8217;s latest Android joke would have made sense 10 years ago \u2014 not in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/apples-latest-android-joke-would-have-made-sense-10-years-ago\">https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/apples-latest-android-joke-would-have-made-sense-10-years-ago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 06:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidcentral.com\">www.androidcentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-you-need-to-know-3\">What you need to know<\/h2>\n<ul id=\"elk-43ca528f-64e1-442a-8dc4-6ba4f5375536\">\n<li>Apple&#8217;s latest privacy ad depicts Android phones with thick bezels and dated designs that don&#8217;t reflect reality.<\/li>\n<li>The ad focuses on Safari privacy but portrays Android hardware as far more outdated than it actually is.<\/li>\n<li>Modern Android flagships like the Galaxy S26 Ultra and Find X9 Ultra look nothing like Apple&#8217;s examples.<\/li>\n<li>The ad feels like another unnecessary jab at Android rather than a showcase of iPhone privacy features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-1568875a-8db8-4bed-a604-65772536510b\">Apple has released a new &#8220;Privacy on iPhone&#8221; ad, but it goes out of its way to portray Android phones as thick, outdated-looking boxes \u2014 all over again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nothing new for Apple and Google to take shots at each other. Tech companies have been doing that for years. What&#8217;s ironic, though, is that Google often seems more willing to embrace Apple&#8217;s products than Apple is to acknowledge modern Android phones. We&#8217;ve seen Google launch apps on iPhones first and even use MacBooks on stage during Google I\/O.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-1568875a-8db8-4bed-a604-65772536510b-2\">Apple, meanwhile, still seems to have a very outdated idea of what Android phones actually look like.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/c8t5znsqpd1648225513.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/c8t5znsqpd1648225513.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] max-h-12 w-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Its latest Privacy on iPhone ad heavily focuses on Safari and privacy, showing Android users being tracked everywhere they go while browsing. Then, as soon as an iPhone user opens Safari, all of those trackers disappear into thin air.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube-video-title\">Privacy on iPhone: Safari helps block data trackers &#8211; YouTube<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Spb-ka7xrR8\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Privacy on iPhone: Safari helps block data trackers - YouTube\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch On <\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-28201b2a-5139-4d1c-b556-f7c4953979b4\">The funny part isn&#8217;t the privacy message itself. It&#8217;s the Android phones Apple chose to represent Android.<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The devices shown in the ad have huge bezels around the display and a notched front camera design. Ironically, in 2026, it&#8217;s Apple that still sells devices with a notch cutout (the iPhone 16e), while most Android phones have moved on to punch-hole cameras and much slimmer designs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:37.61%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Apple depicting Android phones in 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT-1200-80.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT-320-80.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/KiQ7xa7axS8APfuyU3NBjT.jpg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Apple \/ YouTube)<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-1ab25545-7531-4529-aad6-7eb3048fa7e3\">The phones in the ad also feature a single rear camera, which feels even more disconnected from reality. Modern Android flagships&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/apples-latest-android-joke-would-have-made-sense-10-years-ago\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s latest Android joke would have made sense 10 years ago \u2014 not in 2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/UGGUTAKXWqRLNczmucswsn-2560-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-264743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264747,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264743\/revisions\/264747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}