Republished on February 15th with a new report into Android 16 Beta 2, bringing Google’s Pixel even closer to Apple’s iPhone.

For years, Apple and Samsung have been accused of copying each other. But with the Apple-ification of Google's Pixel 9 series, it appears Apple is biting off Google's strange horizontal camera design.

From these images, we can see that the camera location and shape on these phones appears to be almost identical. The lozenge-shared area in the top left-hand corner of the rear presents the phone’s cameras, with Google offering two, while Apple only has one.