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Yep.
Material design was totally not invented by Google. It is totally not the best design ever. The thin-till-invisible fonts of Apple is totally not a joke.

This forum really has some of the most reliable sources.

The Pixel does not have OIS, it has EIS only, which is a bummer for some people. It has 4 GB of RAM for heaven's sake. Google has provided a Apple Care system since last year with Nexus Protect. I wouldn't even consider 821 a 2016 spec, it is more of 2017 spec.

Now this thread is just full of comparison between Apple, Google and Samsung. Now seriously people, this is like Google Pixel XL vs iPhone 7 Plus, not Google vs Apple. Not sure where Samsung came in. Now the battery problem is a mostly a Samsung Note7 exclusive and there are way more phones out there than exploding ones, so please stop talking about a phone exploding in your face while using a Pixel for VR. For all I know, electronics always have a chance of exploding, no matter what it is, if it has electricity running through it, you are not safe, not even if you are using an iPhone.

iPhone has its own advantages, the phones themselves are beautiful and fast. Sure it does receives very long term updates, but iOS 9 on my 4S  is like a turtle. I think we can agree that long term updates are awesome but they would die out soon out or later. Anyway, Nexii (and presumably Pixels) do receive long term security updates. It is the OEMs and carriers that are creating the fragmentation BS. Android itself as a platform has grown a lot, and so does iOS, and they both owe each other to their individuals' success. Android really doesn't crash at all anymore, even if my 6 years old OG Galaxy S running Marshmallow. iPhones do crash too, even more rarely, but on the scale of the entire system rather than just the OS, but both of them are becoming really stable and reliable. VR is a kind of a new foray, but I do use them, playing games and watching videos on them at home are very immersive. No one wears that outdoor, so of course you wouldn't know if someone does use VR. For Google Assistant, that's what I'm kinda hyped up about, but Siri will catch up. I think we could all agree that Siri did start the ball rolling, or the Google Assistant wouldn't be created in the first place.

For me, Android is better since developing apps for iPhone is like hell. Plus, you can use a Mac or Windows to build the apps. But that's just from a dev's viewpoint.

Anyway, the iPhone is mostly likely still going to beat Pixel in benchmark once the device is actually released, but for now, we shouldn't be using the unreliable sources. Benchmarks might not be fully accurate, but they do not lie. iPhones are some of the fastest phones on the planet, but so are Nexii, we'll wait and see on the Pixel. The A10 Fusion chips rival that of Desktop-class processors and the 821 is also just as great, both are 2017 standards, no questions asked. For the camera, DxOMark may have gotten a bag of gold for the review, or maybe the Pixel camera is just really good, we don't know. But the scores prove that both are very good. If you get a picture from both phones and ask 100 people to rate them without letting them know which one took the picture, 50 would say the iPhone is better, 50 would say the Pixel one is better, it's just personal preferences. You probably can't tell the difference between them too, and if I took a picture on the Pixel and told you it was on the iPhone, you would agree, the same goes the other way round. I don't take pictures very often, so I don't care too much about them. Crisp, clear and overall accurate, that's all I need.

To round up, both phones are awesome. If I had $1538, I would buy both. Cheers.

Oh, and I don't swim with my phone.