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When there are really only 3-4 high end phones that's not a great ranking.

by walls 3y ago

muyuu 3y ago
but there are many more almost every major brand has essentially their flagship and most do worse than the Pixel Asus, Xiaomi, Huawei, Sony, Vivo, Oppo, Motorola, OnePlus, etc etc all have high-end phones only Apple and Samsung are doing better than Google Pixel
- illiarian 3y ago
  Again, you're clumping all pixels into one category. Even if major Pixel sales seem to be coming from the relatively cheap Pixel 6a. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/consumers-are-splurging-on-premium-smartphones-amid-tough-economic-conditions-report-says https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/consumers-are-splurging-on... "While both Honor and Google’s share of the premium smartphone segment more than doubled in 2022 from 2021, they still only account for around 1% of the pie, so they are still significantly smaller players." Behind Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi. To put it in perspective: Pixel was launched 6 years ago which replaced Google Nexus, launched 13 years ago. It's a very minor product that Google has been pouring money into with little to no effect.
  - muyuu 3y ago
    last time I researched into it last year, Google Pixel was already the biggest division in hardware for Google in terms of profit (above Nest and Home) and had better-looking numbers in profitability than all the main players in hardware except Microsoft - and that included Apple for the first time since Google killed Stadia and perhaps has no chance at the console business, it strategically looks like a terrible idea to exit the mobile hardware division, but again, with Google you never know the image Google has created around having essentially no commitment to any business lines makes it hard for them to enter the console market with longer cycles, but doesn't hurt them as much in the mobile market as phones are replaced often anyway PS: Pixel is just Google's newer mobile hardware brand, for me there is no real difference with Nexus in that respect - just a rebranding

When there are really only 3-4 high end phones that's not a great ranking.

by walls 3y ago

When there are really only 3-4 high end phones that's not a great ranking.

but there are many more almost every major brand has essentially their flagship and most do worse than the Pixel Asus, Xiaomi, Huawei, Sony, Vivo, Oppo, Motorola, OnePlus, etc etc all have high-end phones only Apple and Samsung are doing better than Google Pixel

illiarian 3y ago
Again, you're clumping all pixels into one category. Even if major Pixel sales seem to be coming from the relatively cheap Pixel 6a. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/consumers-are-splurging-on-premium-smartphones-amid-tough-economic-conditions-report-says https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/consumers-are-splurging-on... "While both Honor and Google’s share of the premium smartphone segment more than doubled in 2022 from 2021, they still only account for around 1% of the pie, so they are still significantly smaller players." Behind Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi. To put it in perspective: Pixel was launched 6 years ago which replaced Google Nexus, launched 13 years ago. It's a very minor product that Google has been pouring money into with little to no effect.
- muyuu 3y ago
  last time I researched into it last year, Google Pixel was already the biggest division in hardware for Google in terms of profit (above Nest and Home) and had better-looking numbers in profitability than all the main players in hardware except Microsoft - and that included Apple for the first time since Google killed Stadia and perhaps has no chance at the console business, it strategically looks like a terrible idea to exit the mobile hardware division, but again, with Google you never know the image Google has created around having essentially no commitment to any business lines makes it hard for them to enter the console market with longer cycles, but doesn't hurt them as much in the mobile market as phones are replaced often anyway PS: Pixel is just Google's newer mobile hardware brand, for me there is no real difference with Nexus in that respect - just a rebranding