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Vote with your wallet and buy pixels or Apple phones.
by tbrock 7y ago
Vote with your wallet and buy pixels or Apple phones.
- raverbashing 7y agoPixels are not so easy to buy for some reason (outside of the US), only through the web site and some stores. I'm also voting with my wallet against Apple taking out the headphone jack.
- StreamBright 7y agohttps://store.google.com/regionpicker https://store.google.com/regionpicker Not sure what you are talking about. If I google buy google pixel outside of the US it takes me to this where I can select my region. I includes many regions/countries outside of the US.
- graycrow 7y agoMany, but not all. Half of Europe is missing, for example.
- mikro2nd 7y agoAnd all of Africa.
- cesarb 7y agoAlso missing is all of the American continent other than North America and Brazil. And selecting Brazil, there's only the Nest Mini and the Chromecast, and nothing else.
- StreamBright 7y agoSorry I did not go through the purchase process, it seems you cannot ship phones outside of the country where it is available.
- SimplyUnknown 7y agoPick the Netherlands, for example. No way to buy any (smart)phone.
- tialaramex 7y agoI bought my current Pixel by walking into a nearby store the night after my previous phone bricked itself in my hotel room, and simply picking the box up and walking to the register. Getting them to sell me just a phone, and not insurance, maintenance, service, style advice, or a fitness plan took about ten minutes, but buying the phone was easy. Persuading Google and everybody else relevant that this was not a SIM hijack (new phone, same number, old phone was totally bricked so couldn't help, other non-work PCs were hours away) was not easy but I wouldn't want it to be.
- rjzzleep 7y agoI wanted to buy a Japanese Pixel 4 because of the local train access, but it was so ridiculously expensive. In the USA there are constantly discounts allowing you to buy the pixels for a couple hundred dollars below retail price. In Japan and other places of the world the whole thing is over a hundred bucks more expensive than retail. Over a 1000 dollars for a phone? I'd rather buy an iPhone then. I ended up getting a second hand iPhone 8 for $250 as second device instead. Most of it better than most previous year android flagships and dirt cheap with 97% battery capacity. I'm trying really hard to keep my "freedom" on android devices, but what the actual f. The only reasonably priced flagship CPU devices are from Xiaomi. Most companies either don't have the ability to unlock the bootloader anymore or brick some random thing of the device or software if you do. Yeah sure the pixel does that and has good source code support, but over 1000 USD for 128 GB? Apple devices have better value for money and you won't have to play lottery about whether the next two android updates will actually work properly.
- csunbird 7y agoI only buy Apple products, because of their durability. One of my friends are still using an iphone 6s, he did not even needed to change the battery
- Intermernet 7y agoHey, I have a completely functional, regularly used Samsung Galaxy S5 (IMO the last good phone Samsung made, and I currently run an S9 as my daily phone, and my partner has an S10). Anecdata is weird when it comes to mobile devices. It seems that some phones are really not created equal to others in the same production run. I presume it's sort of like processor binning, but not actually tested in the factory. Every now and then a customer gets a phone that performs perfectly, and the battery lasts for over a decade (obviously with recharging!) ;-)
- scarface74 7y agoYou realize that the Pixel 2,3 and 4 also don’t have headphone jacks....
- takeda 7y agoIt didn't sound like he uses Pixels.
- scarface74 7y agoHe mentioned buying a Pixel but didn’t because of the difficulty in buying one. One of his primary complaints against an iPhone was about it not having a headphone jack.
- skinnymuch 7y agoNewer Pixels have the same issue as iPhones that you mentioned (Jack)
- mschuster91 7y agoThe problem is no one except Samsung makes any decent tablets, and even Samsung is hardly decent - crap cameras, no NFC... and the Apple ecosystem is a walled garden.
- pjmlp 7y agoMicrosoft, Asus and Huawei also do nice tablets.
- scarface74 7y agoMicrosoft tablets are far from “nice”. They run Windows with all of the bloat that entails. This isn’t meant to be an anti-MS screed. I would say the same if Apple released a “Mac tablet”. Windows is perfectly fine as a PC operating system and I use it everyday and have been developing on and for Windows my entire career. But, as a tablet operating system - No. It’s only been within the last couple of years that I’ve been deploying to Linux and it’s still .Net Core.
- tbrock 7y agoPick your poison I guess. I’d rather have security than freedom when it comes to a cell phone. I’d also rather Apple decide what the wall looks like than Verizon.