This is how Google wants you to switch from iPhone to Pixel 2

Did you, an iPhone aficionado, look at the Pixel 2 and salivate?

Please don't worry. There's an ad for that.

No sooner had Google released its new Pixel 2 phone than it uploaded a video to show how easy it is to switch.

It doesn't, oddly, show a slightly gauche tech type talking you through the motions, as if you were thoroughly halfwitted.

Instead, here's YouTuber Weylie in a remarkably, well, tight video that preaches the power of change.

The Pixel 2 is, it seems, change you can believe in.

Weylie changes things in her life all the time. It's all about keeping things new and fresh, apparently.

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Honestly, it's so smooth that Weylie has time to freshen up her makeup and even model a few clothes along the way.

Oddly, her iPhone has a matching white case. Slightly froufrou, if I may say so. Does this mean it's, well, hers? I daren't ask.

She's certainly very au fait with its operations, as she instructs you to turn off FaceTime and iMessage and unencrypt everything -- especially any work elements that happen to be inserted on your phone.

Changing operating systems has always seemed like a painful idea to me. For its part, Apple insists that switching from Android to iPhone is as easy as walking from one side of a TV screen to another.

Still, if Pixel 2 had moved me to rapture -- with, for example, its new wireless headphones on a string that simultaneously translate when Japanese people are swearing at you -- then you could find a much worse instructor than Weylie.

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