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Re: Google Pixel Fold

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Post by robertlagrant »

TobyTheDog123 wrote: post #32

Yeah that price point makes it an instant pass - In all honesty, phones, at least for me, have been reaching a point of diminishing returns. I upgraded from an iPhone 11 to an iPhone 14 recently, and the difference was practically nothing. I didn't think it was possible to experience buyer's remorse after waiting three whole generations, but here we are. I wouldn't be surprised if it's five years before a phone has s…

The biggest upgrade I had a while ago was buying a OnePlus phone a few years ago and seeing how fast it charged. I stopped thinking about my phone battery. That's the last real innovation for me.

Re: Google Pixel Fold

#92

Post by was_a_dev »

blep_ wrote: post #88
anonporridge wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd be dumb not to take 0% financing. Put the money you would have spent buying outright in a savings account yielding 4%.

Where did you find a savings account yielding 4%?

Some accounts in the UK have been offering 6+%

Re: Google Pixel Fold

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Post by GeekyBear »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #72
GeekyBear wrote: post #49

Given that folding phones have a history of being fragile and Google has a history of dropping support for the devices they sell quickly, do they really expect a $1800 device to sell at a time when flagships that sell for half that much are not moving like they did a couple of years ago?

> Google has a history of dropping support for the devices they sell quickly They do? Aren't Pixels some of the longest-supported phones, security update wise? Their IoT and software services might be another story.

> Aren't Pixels some of the longest-supported phones, security update wise?

Apple's $399 original iPhone SE from 2016 got six years of OS updates and received another security update last month.

Google's original Pixel Phone, also from 2016, stopped getting support at the end of 2019.

Re: Google Pixel Fold

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Post by dzink »

jefftk wrote: post #67
dzink wrote: post #55

$2000 might be better spent on a phone that doesn’t have an operating system scheduled to expire 2-3 years from now. Every iPhone I’ve owned has had multiple lifetimes with family after the 3-4 years of use I might get out of it. Androids are scheduled to expire.

"Pixel 6 and later phones will get updates for at least 5 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US." -- https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=...

That should be 5 years from when you buy it. Planned obsolescence is not worth the same price as a product that will last 10 years.

Re: Google Pixel Fold

#95

Post by DiabloD3 »

Yikes.

Google hasn't magically figured out how to fix the problem with the screens failing after a few hundred bends; neither has Samsung, which is most likely their display supplier.

On top of that, there is no viable market for a phone over $1200 (and, arguably, no market for over $1000, ask Apple how their sales have been going down since the peak in 2015); what were they even thinking? This is ridiculous even for a halo product.

Re: Google Pixel Fold

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Post by Already__Taken »

if my phone is already 5.8 inches, who cares if it folds out. make it 3.5 and fold out for recipes and diagrams/notes. if I need a 7" display I'll have a 10" in a bag with the added battery pack and speakers it'll require anyway

Re: Google Pixel Fold

#97

Post by _zoltan_ »

manojlds wrote: post #70
sidfthec wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you use your phone an average of 5 hours a day for two years and then throw it in a junk drawer the hardware would cost less than 50cents per hour of use. I don't understand this type of justification. My fridge would cost around $65k for a 15 year lifetime at $0.50/hour. It just seems like a completely meaningless way to judge the value of something.

"At the price of one coffee cup" is another thing that gets me. I brew at home and it's 10p for me, is that what you mean?

10p? based on p I think you're in the UK? what kinda coffee is that?here a 3rd wave coffee costs around 42-50 CHF for a kilo and you need 18g for an espresso, so 0.756-0.9 CHF per espresso if I calculate 0 for amortization of equipment.

Re: Google Pixel Fold

#98

Post by anonporridge »

blep_ wrote: post #88
anonporridge wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd be dumb not to take 0% financing. Put the money you would have spent buying outright in a savings account yielding 4%.

Where did you find a savings account yielding 4%?

This comment right here is part of why the banking crisis has just barely started.

Tons and tons of people have their cash sitting in a shitty Chase savings account yielding 0.1%, while there are many FDIC insured banks offering at least 3% and up to 5%. As a critical mass of these people realize the options available, they'll rapidly move their money with online transfers causing more banks to collapse. The extremely rapid outflows are what killed SVB, Signature, and Republic who were screwed because they had too many low yielding treasuries because the Fed hiked rates so fast.

I've been yielding over 3% in a Capital One savings account since last year.

Re: Google Pixel Fold

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Post by dang »

anttiharju wrote: post #22
barbazoo wrote: post #8

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_fold for us that are not in the US.

I wish the url was updated to this

It was posted that way but our software followed the redirect to https://store.google.com/product/pixel_fold?hl=en-US. I've reverted it now. Sorry!
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