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From my perspective and talking to people who use Android phones, none of them was waiting for iPhone comparable priced Android device. For tech people: it is j
by geodel 10y ago
From my perspective and talking to people who use Android phones, none of them was waiting for iPhone comparable priced Android device. For tech people: it is just assembly of generic hardware components, this time by Google. For non-tech people: it is not an iPhone, so why it is so expensive.
I don't think Google is trying to gouge people. It could be that half million sales of a device does not give economy of scale to price any cheaper.
- nevir 10y agoAs an Android person (and someone who was a fervent iPhone user until the iPhone 6), I've definitely been waiting for a phone without all the usual Android carrier crapware, with a great camera, and not a phablet. Quite excited about the Pixel
- darklajid 10y agoYou describe the OnePlus One (cannot comment on the successors after they broke up with CM). The Pixel seems to be a phone loaded with Google crapware instead of carrier trash - and is (I agree with the GP) far too expensive in my world if you look at the hardware alone and want to dump the 'value added services' anyway.
- the_duke 10y agoYou get the Google "crapware" on almost any Android device. (contractually mandated by Google) The other crap that the vendors bolt on is always on top of that. PS: I have the One Plus Two. Great device, very happy. Good price. No replaceable battery either, though.
- Veratyr 10y agoThe OPO screen is 5.5", which is well into phablet territory (the original Galaxy Note, which was "huge", was only 5.3").
- post_break 10y agoSo a Samsung Galaxy S7 U variant?
- Grazester 10y agoYeah but you still some amount of Samsung crapware
- knz 10y agoWasn't that the Nexus 4 and 5?
- nevir 10y agoNexus 5's camera didn't even remotely compare to iPhones of that era Also, Android 4.x was an awful experience (that was the point I had jumped off the iOS train)
- hyperbovine 10y agoBoth tech and non-tech people can wrap their head around the idea that one can be safely dropped in a toilet and the other can't.