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Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

wvenable wrote: post #30
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…

Samsung announced 5 years of Android updates months ago. Before that, it was 4 years of updates.

Is it 5 years of Android updates or 5 years of security updates?

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

#32

Post by short12 »

farnsworth wrote: post #18

The store is working but it won't connect with my Verizon account to let me check out. If anything was going to go wrong, of course it's integrating with Verizon. Have had so many issues with their website.

They deliver a terrible shopping experience whenever they launch anything. At this point I just assume it is intentional because there is no way Google can't handle the demand and connections to order

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

#33

Post by bobviolier »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #31
wvenable wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Samsung announced 5 years of Android updates months ago. Before that, it was 4 years of updates.

Is it 5 years of Android updates or 5 years of security updates?

Security updates, I am afraid. At least that's what the launch video said.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

#34

Post by isoprophlex »

meetups323 wrote: post #23
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…

Do you think Google doesn't scan photos uploaded to its cloud services for CSAM?

Don't move the goal posts. On-device scanning has a qualitatively different privacy impact from scanning photos inside cloud storage.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by darth_avocado »

marcellus23 wrote: post #26
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 More accurately put, their intent is to scan cloud photos for exact matches with known child pornography material (like every other cloud provider, including Google), and then have the case reviewed by a human only after multiple positives, and only then forwarding the case to law enforcement (based on photos you chose t…

Correct, but there have been known False positives that have hash collisions in this system. That is something to care about considering the trust in law enforcement is eroding day by day

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by dreamer7 »

One 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 lots of close ups and pseudo x-raying of the product. Google just throws in a Pro with an extra camera that you can barely make out on the dark glass.

Apple spends several minutes talking about their SoC. Google says it spent years on Tensor and just leaves it as a shiny golden box.

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.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by paulpan »

Tensor SOC seems pretty impressive on paper, will be curious about how it benchmarks and performs in real-life. The Pixel 5 with its "mid-tier" SOC (Snapdragon 765G) was actually pretty good thanks to the software optimizations.

Bigger news is Qualcomm being left out. Will they go the way of Intel by incentivizing their customers build their own SOCs?

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

#39

Post by dzader »

short12 wrote: post #32
farnsworth wrote: post #18

The store is working but it won't connect with my Verizon account to let me check out. If anything was going to go wrong, of course it's integrating with Verizon. Have had so many issues with their website.

They deliver a terrible shopping experience whenever they launch anything. At this point I just assume it is intentional because there is no way Google can't handle the demand and connections to order

they just have really bad engineers :/

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by 0des »

aaomidi wrote: post #27
meetups323 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think Google doesn't scan photos uploaded to its cloud services for CSAM?

Do you understand how it's different when it's on their servers vs having the functionality to scan for anything they want on your phone? We don't need to have this discussion again. Please go research the hundreds of thousands of discussions and blog posts about how what apple is proposing to do is entirely different.

> We don't need to have this discussion again.

There's no need for this tone. People will disagree, and that's what makes this place great.

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