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The Pixel line is the first Google flagship. Nexus phones were budget vanilla android phones.
by parineum 5y ago
The Pixel line is the first Google flagship. Nexus phones were budget vanilla android phones.
- llampx 5y agoThe definition of flagship is specious at best. Recent Pixels have been coming out with budget mid-range processors and less technological prowess as compared to their brethren from Samsung etc, and the camera is at a standstill since the Pixel 2. On the other hand, devices like the Nexus 4 had a big emphasis on powerful CPU and midrange price. Safe to say that Google's strategy is fluid, to put it charitably.
- mgkimsal 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus "Devices in the Nexus line were considered Google's flagship Android product"
- Dah00n 5y agoThat is like saying the 601 limousine was Trabant's flagship product. Sure, yes, you are technically correct but... no. The Nexus devices were less than half the price of actual flagship products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
- llampx 5y agoBack when the Nexus came out, the top iPhones were selling for $599, if I recall correctly. So at $400 it was more than half, but that's splitting hairs because it was Google's flagship. By sales volume a bit player, but it occupied tremendous mindshare because of the brand.
- mgkimsal 5y agoI paid $400 (or more?) for what was billed from google as their premier nexus device (I just got whatever the lowest RAM was). I got it for a testing device. What was lauded was "doesn't come with carrier bloatware/apps". OK. Fine. It was a middling experience at best, but was presented as Google's 'best' at that time.