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It's also worth noting that Nexus line was more of a budget phone, whereas Pixel is a premium flagship. The extra cost is exactly for things such as better cost
by ehsankia 9y ago
It's also worth noting that Nexus line was more of a budget phone, whereas Pixel is a premium flagship. The extra cost is exactly for things such as better costumers support.
I don't understand people comparing a 350$ Nexus 5 phone to a 700$ Pixel phone, and saying that they're both by Google, and anything that applies to the first also must apply to the second. It's also like people blindly hating on support for paid products by bringing anecdotal evidence from support on free products. That's just not how things work.
The Nexus line was barely a Google product, it was just meant to be a vanilla open device for developers, with some Google oversight. That's very different from a premium device built and supported from start to finish by Google.
- billylindeman 9y agoNexus 6p was definitely not a budget phone
- mullingitover 9y ago> It's also worth noting that Nexus line was more of a budget phone She paid over $600 for it, I wouldn't exactly call it a bargain bin device.
- ehsankia 9y ago600$, compared to 800$ for a comparable Pixel phone. That 200$ difference is the premium you pay for good support. The Pixel doesn't really have anything else that the 6P didn't have.
- m3kw9 9y agoSo Google treats customers like that? Pay for a more expensive product, get better support?
- fphhotchips 9y agoEr, yes. Welcome to Earth. There's no industry in the world where the person paying more $$$ doesn't routinely get better service.
- mullingitover 9y agoAt the time it was released it was the single most expensive consumer product Google made.
- saiya-jin 9y agopremium means paying extra compared to 150$ huawei phones which give you 90-100% of the functionality and performance. i don't expect anything from huawei apart from their legal obligations, but sure as hell would expect more if I pay 4x more.
- zmk_ 9y agoGoogle clearly did not intend 6P to be either budget or 'developer' phone. They were very serious about the phone and spent a lot of money on advertising it to consumers in a number of countries.
- runjake 9y ago> The Nexus line was barely a Google product" Certainly so. They didn't really stand behind it, like they should have. > it was just meant to be a vanilla open device for developers, with some Google oversight." That counters the reality that these things were sold on the mass market to normal people without developer accounts and the accompanying "You'll shoot your eye out, dev" EULA. It was advertised on TV, for !@!#$@ sake. > That's very different from a premium device built and supported from start to finish by Google* There aren't many devices out there, aside from the iPhone, that are supported from start and finish by one company.