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> Not bothering to look up nexus phones because they're from a different lineage than pixels, hence the different branding You're just taking advantage of sema
by BoorishBears 6y ago
> Not bothering to look up nexus phones because they're from a different lineage than pixels, hence the different branding
You're just taking advantage of semantics then.
Anyone who's followed the Nexus line knows exactly what their wording meant, since Nexus devices did give way to the Pixel and did follow the price normalization this person mentions.
Iirc the Nexus 6
Or 6P was the start of rise in prices
They might be misremembering exact prices but I distinctly remember the backlash as Nexus devices went from strong values as dev phones to premium smartphones, then the Pixel dropped and solidified that
- bagacrap 6y agowhat is the strongest value in smartphones today? Pixel 4a, hands down.
- BoorishBears 6y agoI'd definitely say iPhone SE 2... Which captures the original poster's point pretty perfectly: the Pixel line did completely abandon those value root until "budget flashship variant" recently became a thing throughout the industry... which was mostly lead by Apple and the Xr (and no, I'm not saying Apple made the first budget smartphone, they just popularized the idea of making a budget variant of a 12 hundred dollar phone and marketing them alongside one another)
- Tepix 6y agoThe Xiaomi and Huawei phones offer much better values than the Pixel 4a, unless you put an enormous value on the software update situation (which of course is perfectly reasonable).