Not available in my country. That's fine, I'll just buy an iPhone.
Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
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Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#152Link doesn’t seem to work. Could be geo-fenced? (Location: Norway/Europe)
Here in Sweden it shows a list of products, none is a phone.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#153One interesting thing to note is how much more high-budget Hollywood style Apple's event feels in comparison to Google's event. Having watched the two events on successive days, some things stand out - Apple throws numbers repeatedly at you through out the presentation and you end up remembering quite a few useless statistics (55.7 billion transitors in M1 Max) Apple makes a much bigger deal about each device with lo…
> The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange. B-Camera angles are common in interviews. It's to help create a less formal and less stuffy 'presentation' like feel. It's intended to be more of a "you're standing there, somewhat behind the scenes" feel.
I went back and checked Apple's keynote and noticed that all their presenters faced the camera. But the camera itself was panning slightly which helped, as you said, to feel less stuffy. Nice!
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
How interesting that this clearly made made you uncomfortable. I imagine it's similar to how people of color feel when seeing seas of white faces on product pages past.
That was my point. It's ridiculous whichever extreme they choose. In 2021 when everything is about race and equity, I find it telling who its OK to exclude. Why couldn't they just have it be equal across the board?
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Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#155Miss me with a Google monitoring device.
Whose monitoring devises do you recommend then?
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#156This will get downvoted immediately but what the heck. I understand we need better representation for people of color in many places - but dang Google, not a single white guy on the Pixel 6 page [0]?? Dozens of photos of people, not one white male. Sort of jarring in the reverse if you ask me. [0] https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6?hl=en-US Edit: Because the common reply to mine seems to be "Well now you know h…
For me, the very first picture on the original article is of a white woman. Most of the rest of the photos lower on that page and on the page you specifically linked to are showing off that their camera captures authentic skin tone, which is known to have historically worked well for white skin tones and poor for darker skin tones for pretty much the entire history of phone cameras. So to me this comes across as a good advertisement that their camera takes much more accurate photos than other phones.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#157So is there any info on Google's processor, any benchmarks, any specific synergies to show off that put it ahead of the competition?
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not how open source works in SoC design. In fact it doesn't work at all an here's why: Google hasn't made the SoC and doesn't own the IP, it most likely bought a bunch of IP blocks from established vendors like Cadence, Synopys, Samsung, etc and fused them together to create a SoC. All those IPs come with their own license terms and NDAs that limit what you can do with it. You can use it in your final product…
NXP manages to do it fairly well though. Their chips have excellent upstream support.
They do, though, their chips aren't on the bleeding edge of performance so I guess they're less fearful of competitors copying their IP since MediaTek, Samsung, Nvidia and Qualcomm steamroll anything in NXP's offering.
That's why their chips are mostly in e-readers and IoT devices that don't need massive processing power.
Still, I'm a fan of their approach.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
> As far as I am aware, there is no mechanism on iOS by which images are "automatically pulled into" iCloud photos from anywhere, Messages or otherwise. Do you have a source or an example of how that could happen? When I receive images from my friends, they don't go into my photo library until I explicitly tap "save". Per Apple [0] >Shared with You works across the system to find the (...) photos, and more that are…
Shared with You does not actually save the images to your photo library. It just surfaces them inside the Photos app. I will admit it's not very clear from the press release, but those are the facts. I was not being disingenuous, frankly. I said that Apple is scanning your cloud photos, i.e. they are scanning photos that are uploaded to the cloud. Photos not being uploaded to the cloud are not scanned. I made no clai…
You are thoroughly misrepresenting what Apple does. I initially thought you don't know what they do, but apparently you do very well.
Still: they scan photos locally - those are not cloud photos, those are local photos. And they have deployed the technical capability. You can bet that once capability exists, they will bend to government demands - there's ample precedent for that.
SO, yes, Apple, unlike all others, scans your photos locally. If they are going to be uploaded to cloud, or if they are forced to.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#160This will get downvoted immediately but what the heck. I understand we need better representation for people of color in many places - but dang Google, not a single white guy on the Pixel 6 page [0]?? Dozens of photos of people, not one white male. Sort of jarring in the reverse if you ask me. [0] https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6?hl=en-US Edit: Because the common reply to mine seems to be "Well now you know h…
1. Not true, I see at least 2 [0] [1] 2. Even if it was true, welcome to not being included for once in your entire life. Now maybe you can start to begin to understand what others have experienced basically every day of their life. [0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s6bCli03aqnY_KvZoPaTgiFqCj... [1] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Zq1FVWVv9GOCRJ3oHJg0PHzWgE...
> welcome to not being included for once in your entire life. Now maybe you can start to begin to understand what others have experienced basically every day of their life.
Your examples are proving OP's point.
Your snarky response is what's wrong with the world now a days. I am brown but this over-pandering by companies feels more patronizing and condescending than genuine care. It's like winning an award or being hired just for being a specific skin color and not because of my skills.
This over-correction ends up creating more animosity because people start wondering if their heart surgeon was hired because of their skin color or skills and the brown person starts feeling lower because they aren't sure if they got hired because of their skills or just to tick a checkbox on the diversity list.
This type of over-pandering might be okay if this web page was localized to lets say another country with those demographics. But when countries like US and Canada don't have any representation of the largest demographic, then that's not genuine and mere pandering. I would even go as far as to say it's simply exploitation of skin color.