Re:Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
by FireBeyond on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:58PM
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How is a Google phone, manufactured by Huawei ...
any different from an Apple phone, manufactured by FoxConn?
Apple wasn't the manufacturer at all.
If you buy an iPhone, do you get a FoxConn logo on the back? Because my Nexus 5X has an LG logo on the back, not a Google one.
So yes, it's pretty different from an Apple phone. Unless you refer to yours as the FoxConn iPhone 6 or something, which would be a unique perspective on your part.
Re:Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
by piyush_soni on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:20AM
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Because it was a "Nexus" - Manufactured by someone else, in 'collaboration' with Google. The first Pixel was also manufactured by HTC (and may be FoxConn eventually, who knows), but it carries the tag of manufactured by Google, so that should be supported regardless of where you buy it from. That's the first Google phone.
What the parent is saying is that's precisely the difference. Your wife brought her phone to the manufacturer.
The Nexus phones were not manufactured by Google. If I don't buy it from the Google store, my buying didn't establish a commercial relationship with them. The Pixel phones, though, are manufactured by Google.
Disclaimer: Even though I'm a Google employee I have no idea how these things work. I'm just clarifying what the parent said, which sounds likely to me.