Pixel sold incredibly well and far beyond expectations, it was sold out for months.

Looking into it a bit more, it does seem to be completely dependant on who you read.

Depending on who you read, the 1-2 million speculated to have sold is good or bad.

Yeah, the goodness or badness of those numbers really depends on what Google's intent is in selling them directly. Is it really trying to get into the business of selling phones for profit? If that's the primary goal, then 1-2mm is pretty 'meh' in terms of making a dent in the global high end phone market.

Without knowing what their intent is, the goodness or badness of it can only be speculation. Which won't stop people from stating either position as fact.

It's not dependent on who you read. Selling single digit millions of phones is not impressive.

Apple sells 80M iPhones in a quarter. Samsung is estimating 20M per quarter for the S8.

The Pixel is insignificant in the larger market.

I don't know that I've ever seen a Pixel in the wild.

Its one step towards high-end line like the iphone is going for. Having 1200 bucks computer makes it ok to have 1600 next year. Same is happening with new pixel phone. They went for the luxury clients copying apple style.