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Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by ericmay »

howinteresting wrote: post #102
whichquestion wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

5 years of security updates, 3 years of feature updates. On the page it says on the 12th footnote, "Feature drops for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US. Your Pixel will receive feature drops during the applicable Android update and support periods for the phone. See g.co/pixel/updates for details." On https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705 it says…

Unlike iOS where basic features like the web browser require system updates, Android is modular and updates get pushed through other channels independently of the OS itself.

Which is ok, and if you don’t use Safari then you don’t have to worry about this.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by 28921247 »

phponpcp wrote: post #196
seneca wrote: post #144

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It really has gotten incredibly heavy handed. Their entire marketing campaign for this phone seems to primarily focus on social engineering.

Does it bother anyone else that Google is basically saying "How can we use race/gender as a driver for selling phones."

Not really. Google wants black people to buy their phones because a featured they developed works better for their skin tone. Should companies who make smaller handsets be barred from advertising to women?

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by randomopining »

eric_b wrote: post #89

This 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…

Agree 100% and upvoted.

But it's never enough for these types of people that want to push their narrative forward and over anything that stands in it's way. There's never an end to it until the collective just says "No".

You can fight it with agree-and-amplify: "Well Google you included dark skinned people of west african descent, but none of east african. I won't buy your product."

"Well google you only included asians of Han origin, and none of Mongolian descent"

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by echelon »

theshrike79 wrote: post #106
echelon wrote: post #75

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> known child pornography material For some definition. Russia's FSB might have a very different idea of what this is. Anti-Putin memes, for instance. Navalny support materials or brochures. You'll have to watch what you download, because your phone might upload it and incriminate you. Or China's MSS. Winnie the Pooh, Tiananmen Square, Free HK, etc. Or even the FBI. Financial or political leaks, Wikileaks, etc. Once…

The definition is from NCMEC[0] and ONLY from NCMEC. No FSB, no MSS, no FBI. This is the EXACT SAME database EVERY cloud provider has been using for about a decade. Look up Microsoft PhotoDNA. The only difference is that the company doing it was Apple, who wanted to do the checks on-device BEFORE upload. And with multiple redundancies and human review. Not like Microsoft, who have - for example - shut down the MS acc…

Longbets 10 years $10,000 we see this used by Apple (or a government agency) in a way that deviates from your attestation?

I'll eat my hat if this system doesn't hurt someone innocent.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by Symmetry »

nicbou wrote: post #76

I really like my Pixel 5, and I hope that Google maintains the course with future Pixels. It's a proper appliance phone. It holds the same place in my life as my kettle or my washing machine. It does what I want it to do, and asks nothing of me. I don't know any stats about it, only that it's fast enough, has a long enough battery life, and takes good enough pictures. I couldn't be happier.

In the same boat but I suspect I'll be sad if I didn't have a finger print reader on the back of my phone. But maybe there's a good reason everybody is putting it on the front now?

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by bduerst »

taylorlapeyre wrote: post #67
DCKing wrote: post #20

Thanks Google. Think I’ll be buying this. I want as little to do with Google’s services as possible in my life, but they really deserve credits for making a modern usable smartphone that is reasonably open. There is just one single feature I will be buying this for - the 5 years of software updates. While good image processing is definitely a pro, all of these software you’re presenting features I really don’t give a…

>> Apple’s stated intents to actively incriminate you by scanning your photos on a personal device You do realize that Google also scans your images for CP, and furthermore that Google's current business model is literally surveillance advertisement, right?

Just FYI, Google has gone on the record to say they don't use Google Photos commercially for any promotional purposes, unless they ask for the user's explicit permission first. The hoopla with Apple doing on-device scanning is that Apple has invested heavily into marketing it's privacy focus claims.
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