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by xd1936 10y ago

https://youtu.be/mOwYlhUbsko https://youtu.be/mOwYlhUbsko https://youtu.be/jJOgF15LLZk https://youtu.be/jJOgF15LLZk https://youtu.be/-FCNA-RwRBQ https://youtu.be/-FCNA-RwRBQ Initial reviews seem really positive. The touch response looks much improved, and that camera is a beast. Battery life looks much better than other Android phones too.

okket 10y ago
> Initial reviews seem really positive. Not everyone likes it though: "The Google Pixel Is Too Dumb and Ugly to Replace Your iPhone" http://gizmodo.com/the-google-pixel-is-too-dumb-and-ugly-to-replace-your-i-1787877249 http://gizmodo.com/the-google-pixel-is-too-dumb-and-ugly-to-... The main problem is: It costs way too much and delivers too little for that. To be a competitor to the iPhone at the same price point, the Pixel has to really shine. This is where it fails and is reduced to a lighthouse product for a very special, small group of customers.
- leephillips 10y ago
  "The Pixel is the first Google phone built from top to bottom" The others were built bottom-up?
- tomtheelder 10y ago
  > To be a competitor to the iPhone at the same price point, the Pixel has to really shine. This is the rhetoric going around, but I'm not sure it's really true. Sure if their goal was to instantly knock the iPhone off in one generation, but it's not. The goal is to build a really strong and compelling Google ecosystem (home, assistant, chrome, chromecast, all the services that people already use) that the pixel is simply one part of. To me, this is the real end goal, to convince you to buy a Pixel not because it trumps the iPhone on its own merit, but because it ties in with all these other things you use/want to use. I have no idea if that vision will come to fruition, but if it does, then the Pixel just needs to be "good enough" to start taking some market share.
bitwize 10y ago
Yeah, the touch response, camera, and battery life may be all great -- by Android phone standards, but they still lag the iPhone. The iPhone is the definitive smartphone. If you have an iPhone budget, you may as well buy the real deal.
- mcphage 10y ago
  The Pixel's phone was rated better than the iPhone 7's, although I haven't seen the equivalent rating for the iPhone 7+ yet.

by xd1936 10y ago

okket 10y ago

> Initial reviews seem really positive. Not everyone likes it though: "The Google Pixel Is Too Dumb and Ugly to Replace Your iPhone" http://gizmodo.com/the-google-pixel-is-too-dumb-and-ugly-to-replace-your-i-1787877249 http://gizmodo.com/the-google-pixel-is-too-dumb-and-ugly-to-... The main problem is: It costs way too much and delivers too little for that. To be a competitor to the iPhone at the same price point, the Pixel has to really shine. This is where it fails and is reduced to a lighthouse product for a very special, small group of customers.

leephillips 10y ago
"The Pixel is the first Google phone built from top to bottom" The others were built bottom-up?
tomtheelder 10y ago
> To be a competitor to the iPhone at the same price point, the Pixel has to really shine. This is the rhetoric going around, but I'm not sure it's really true. Sure if their goal was to instantly knock the iPhone off in one generation, but it's not. The goal is to build a really strong and compelling Google ecosystem (home, assistant, chrome, chromecast, all the services that people already use) that the pixel is simply one part of. To me, this is the real end goal, to convince you to buy a Pixel not because it trumps the iPhone on its own merit, but because it ties in with all these other things you use/want to use. I have no idea if that vision will come to fruition, but if it does, then the Pixel just needs to be "good enough" to start taking some market share.

bitwize 10y ago

Yeah, the touch response, camera, and battery life may be all great -- by Android phone standards, but they still lag the iPhone. The iPhone is the definitive smartphone. If you have an iPhone budget, you may as well buy the real deal.

mcphage 10y ago
The Pixel's phone was rated better than the iPhone 7's, although I haven't seen the equivalent rating for the iPhone 7+ yet.