The point is, this isn’t the first time this circle has completed itself. Google acknowledged this essential characteristic in one advertisement for the first Pixel, which was released in 2016, the same year as the iPhone 7, “3.5mm headphone jack satisfyingly not new.” However, the headphone connector was removed from the Pixel 2 a year later. The Pixel 3A, the first A-series Pixel, would bring it back, but not until 2019. Google has once again parodied Apple, only to become a parody the following year.
