> 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

> 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.