"AI" on my phone is so incredibly unappealing. I don't understand who this is for.
It's for the investors.
Google Pixel 9 Pro
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never because clear communication and good lines of understanding make a positive and stable relationship? Snapping really? Your comment literally reads like a classic "I hate my wife" boomer meme and it comes off as kind of gross.
you are projecting something gross on a total stranger online. check yourself.
You don't snap at waiters, you don't snap at your spouse or partner. If you think that's "projecting" you have bigger issues and internal-unresolved-trauma my friend. I think you need to follow your own advice here: Check yourself immediately.
Spouses and partners treat each other with respect, and no that doesn't involve snapping.
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#93Most people, from a person on welfare to all celebrities and almost all CEO’s, including Elon Musk, use iPhones. The Pixel and Android in general is simply not cool like the iPhone. Google has been making their own phones for over 10 years now and they’ve barely made a dent. What’s Google’s goal here?
Their objective is simple, get the hardware in place, so they can force-feed Google Search, YouTube and Google Gemini.
Yes it's true, iPhone are popular, but it's a US-centric answer, because most of the rest of the world runs Android (Android has a 70.69% market share worldwide).
So Google has a really valid plan there.
Google claims their target is the "next billion people".
Also iPhones are very expensive, just relatively less expensive in the US (due to wages, low taxes, less intermediaries, etc).
Even a poor US citizen is often some sort of rich citizen in other parts of the world.
Of course, there are exceptions, for example, Kim Jong Un uses iPhone and MacBook Pro.
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#94I’m still bitter about my last Pixel with the stuttering display (no real-time thread for the graphics), the settings all over the place (I counted 4 different addresses for my home, and 1 was deeply hidden in their assistant), and the debug strings in UPPER_SNAKE_CASE in the Google apps, which is unacceptable for a device that is sold to everyone.
Which Pixel was that? I'm really happy with mine (7a)
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#95Am I the only one that thinks pixels have always been ugly?
The Nexus 4 was beautiful, IMO one of the coolest smartphones ever made. It was manufactured by LG, but AFAIK Google was responsible for the design.
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#96I'm still salty about my Pixel 8 dying out because of the "green screen" bug (basically, screen just progressively turns greener until it stops working). Very common according to reddit, and the ubreakitifixit guy acknowledged it's a common problem as well. My Pixel 5a also had some shenanigans and my dad's pixel 6 as well No idea why they don't do proper Q&A. Looks like a good phone but yet fails in ways my work iph…
It's still a running theme that their in-display fingerprint readers are uniquely terrible for many people, even 3 (now 4) generations after they started using them instead of rear-mounted capacitive sensors. I don't know why they struggle so much with that compared to every other manufacturer using exactly the same sensors from the same handful of suppliers.
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All camera bulges are a poor design. Just make the battery thicker. Either way people are throwing a case on to make the back straight again.
I think the bulges are because everyone’s using a case anyway, so they may as well bump out. Unless someone’s doing the “I care so little about protecting several hundred dollars that I use an expensive phone without a case” thing.
I just pay the extra $30 or whatever for accident protection. That's about the same price as a case and accomplishes the same goal. I think of it as a zero-ounce case.
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#98Remember when Google used to do live benchmarks showing it beat the iPhone (and even the iPad). Those were the days. Now Tensor is bottom of the pack for high-end phones.
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Still using my pixel 4a. I refuse to discontinue a perfectly good phone just because the manufacturer decides it's not supported anymore. Hopefully the EU does something about planned obsolesce one day.
You're using a device that hasn't received security updates in a year to stick it to Google?
LineageOS for the 4a was last updated on 8/8/24:
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#100I love Google Pixel phones because of Google Fi for traveling; unfortunately Google Fi is facing major service downgrades/outages for travelers (including me) who go on 3+ month trips out of the US. Google Support tells me the Google Pixel 9 Pro has the same limitation. For comparison my iPhone works fine on Verizon. The issue is now described in the Google Pixel T&C, and I hope Google will eventually offer a way to…
fwiw, T-Mobile also have the 90 days restriction. I'm not entirely sure it's a company policy vs a US policy.
Google Support tells me it's a Google company policy, not a U.S. policy. And for comparison, Verizon works fine, just by paying a bit extra for extended roaming.