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Nexus was never “premium”. Quite the opposite it was developed-oriented and amazingly affordable. Unsubsidized it cost around 50% of what other flagship phones
by josteink 8y ago
Nexus 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).