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

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

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Post by PKop »

Cyph0n wrote: post #18
gotthemwmds wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use all of Apple's cloud services and am perfectly happy. Can you elaborate? I'm curious. My only problem with Apple right now is they won't sell me an unlocked iPhone7 Plus. Every single person I talk to at Apple gives me a different story on how to buy one, but if I show up at the store with money, they won't sell it to me, or even reserve it. I even offered the store to just hold on to my credit card for a week…

> My only problem with Apple right now is they won't sell me an unlocked iPhone7 Plus Why not just order it from the Apple Online Store?

Not offered there. You have to be a current Verizon, Att, etc. customer (or sign up for new plan). I've tried.

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

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Post by ljf »

spankalee wrote: post #20
ljf wrote: post #7

Why is Google still insisting (with 7.1) that the 3 navigation keys (menu, home and back) need to be on screen - either wasting real-estate or annoyingly hidden - requiring a swipe to expose them? Old Android phones used to have hardware or software keys that were off the bottom of the screen - and in fact my Xiaomi Mi Note Pro still does - it frees the entire screen for content. If the '3 keys' regularly changed mea…

To turn this around: why did the old phones insist that the hardware buttons take up valuable face space that could be used for more screen, where the buttons could be dynamically drawn and repositioned based on the content and orientation of the phone.

But is the giant black bar across the bottom of this screen a good use of screen> https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/d1FGcK-lOXmwvt9UR7OYJwaOSTg... ?

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

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Post by NetStrikeForce »

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?

It depends on what cloud services do you want to run away from...

As a recent dad, having more than one copy of my pictures is paramount :) so I "backup" with Google Photos and OneDrive. As these services exist both in Android and iOS I feel like I could change phone without worrying too much about my pics being safe.

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Post by buro9 »

So far, aside from the camera (apparently excellent), everything I've heard about why the Pixel is so great comes down to software.

So far, of everything software that people have enthused about with the Pixel... none of that software shines if you only have Google Apps accounts.

Aside from the camera, why would anyone with a Google Apps account buy this?

(I'm referring to the Allo AI assistent, etc which only has limited functionality for Google Apps users, as does Now, Trips, Spaces, App Sharing, Play Music Family, etc.)

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

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Post by wnevets »

mikestew wrote: post #13

And yet not a single hard detail in the article as to why the headline might be true. For going on ten years we've seen the "iPhone killers" come and go, and this article does nothing to tell me why this time it will be different. Perhaps because it won't be. Of what very few details the article outlines, they just go on about nifty hardware. Have we not learned by now that cool hardware still sucks when hamstrung by…

considering just how small the iphone global market share is, I'm not sure being an iphone killer is even a thing anymore.

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

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Post by ionwake »

eitally wrote: post #17
Ologn wrote: post #10

The bottom of the article says the phone is assembled by HTC. I suppose the difference between this and the Google Nexus phones is that Google is no longer doing hardware design in collaboration with outside manufacturers. However, collaboration in hardware assembly continues.

Yes It is moving from an ODM/JDM relationship to Google being the OEM and HTC being the EMS.

You managed to use 5 acronyms in one sentence. Unfortunately even though I have been an programmer for a while I was unable to understand any of them, also googling is not that helpful. Could you elaborate?
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