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Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by jstapels »

buckbova wrote: post #217
neals wrote: post #208

I don't like Google because they're gonna use my data against me. I don't like Apple because it's a walled garden and millions other reasons. I don't like Samsung because they bloat Android. I don't like Huawei because I don't trust the Chinese government to not do stuff to it. I don't like LG and HTC because the smartphone market is slipping away from them. Am I just getting old?

Got a moto g4 for under $250. Works perfectly for me. Good specs, stock android more or less, unlocked. http://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-g

But it's owned by Lenovo... a Chinese company.

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Post by richardboegli »

You cannot be serious Google? $1079AUD for Google Pixel when it's $650US....At current conversion would be $853AUD. Of course there is shipping, projected volume of sales in Australia etc... but $226 in shipping is a bit much... https://store.google.com/config/pixel_phone

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Post by 1_listerine_pls »

neals wrote: post #208

I don't like Google because they're gonna use my data against me. I don't like Apple because it's a walled garden and millions other reasons. I don't like Samsung because they bloat Android. I don't like Huawei because I don't trust the Chinese government to not do stuff to it. I don't like LG and HTC because the smartphone market is slipping away from them. Am I just getting old?

I don't like them because they are growing horizontally. You have an idea and boom google whatever, boom apple whatever, etc...

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Post by wstrange »

joezydeco wrote: post #126

“Google is now the seller of record of this phone,” And who is the servicer of broken phones? Is there a warranty? Can I get a customer service agent on a real voice line? Given Google's track record of hardware they could have answers for all of this and I still wouldn't own one.

I have used Google's hardware support before for Nexus - and they have been excellent.

Very responsive, and yes, a real customer service agent picked up the phone.

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Post by archiepeach »

mankyd wrote: post #194
archiepeach wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the things that makes a phone developer-friendly is how accessible it is from a price perspective, i.e. not a £599 price tag.

Is that true? Usually developer friendly means not-carrier-locked, which has always commanded a _higher_ price tag. Meanwhile, iPhones have no cheap developer option either. When has developer equated with cheap?

You're right, not being carrier-locked is another attribute of a developer-friendly phone. I wasn't saying developer equates with cheap, but typically "developer" phones are secondary devices that people feel comfortable hacking on without risking destroying their daily driver. Therefore it wouldn't make a huge amount of sense to pay for a top-of-the-range phone when it will likely be a secondary device.

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Post by dhruvio »

HugoDaniel wrote: post #105

Now that the nexus is gone what alternatives exist for developer friendly phones ?

The Zuk Z2 is good for devs. Costs around USD 260 from online Chinese retailers. Great specs and battery life, easily unlockable bootloader, and lots of unofficial cyanogenmod builds available if you search github.

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Post by drewrv »

wmeredith wrote: post #5

I'd like someone to save me from Apple's garbage cloud services, but I just can't get away from their hardware. It's just too good. So... Can anyone convince me that this thing is going to be different from the iPhone killers that are reported on every year in these regurgitated press releases?

What I loved about the nexus phones is that they were cheap enough that I'd stop caring about the hardware. They were cattle instead of a pet. They really should have gone further down this route. Rather than compete with apple on hardware, play up the awesome web services and the fact that dropping your phone in the toilet is no longer a big deal.

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Post by delecti »

angryasian wrote: post #188
seanmccann wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple earns about 94% of the smartphone industry profit with just 14% of the market. It's a thing.

google has never sold a phone directly. The pixel is the first one. Second no one know how much income google generates from Android or Android related services.

This Pixel is really no different from the previous Neuxs phones, except that they're not emphasizing the manufacturer as much. The hardware is made by HTC, and Nexus phones were also sold directly through Google.

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Post by sucrose »

collias wrote: post #172
sucrose wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the image you linked: why are the OS home-screens switched?

That's the joke.

I was confused -- I think that the home-screen edit was unnecessary in the context of the joke; assuming he means that the hardware, not software, looks like a knockoff.
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