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"killed" implies it ceased to exist, so I think it's misleading to include rebrandings or relaunches where functionality gets folded into another product. At a
by B-Con 8y ago
"killed" implies it ceased to exist, so I think it's misleading to include rebrandings or relaunches where functionality gets folded into another product.
At a glance...
* Nexus wasn't killed, it was re branded into Pixel. Nexus had been trending toward premium and the Pixel switch cemented that.
* Googles was more-or-less replaced by Lens. Not a pure rebrand, but two products with the same idea.
* Google Now has essentially been folded into the expanding behemoth that is Assistant. I don't care for that kind of feature, but AFAICT they're fairly similar.
* Quickoffice was an acquisition that was promptly folded into Docs/Sheets/etc.
- josteink 8y agoNexus was never “premium”. Quite the opposite it was developed-oriented and amazingly affordable. Unsubsidized it cost around 50% of what other flagship phones cost. Pixel changed that by effectively doubling the price. Given the quality issues google had with Nexus phones (which was real), I could absolutely not justify spending twice the money on fake premium phones which seemingly still suffered those issue, based on reports after the Pixel 1 launch.
- garmaine 8y agoMy Nexus 6s cost me $649. Nearly the same price of the latest iPhone at the time. How does that square with "amazingly affordable"?
- josteink 8y agoThat was the last and also most expensive Nexus of them all. Definitely not representable. In comparison my Nexus 5X (launched at the same time) cost me around $350. I could literally have bought two of these instead of one iPhone (or Samsung Galaxy).
- zaarn 8y agoPixel is entirely manufactured by Google, Nexus was entirely manufactured by Android Vendors under Google Supervision after they designed most of it.