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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by madeofpalk on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:36AM (#38949884)
Google sells approximately zero Pixel phones.

Every year they'll say "we're serious this time" and promise to dump money into marketing, but it really goes nowhere and carriers continue to push other phones.

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by NorwegianDude on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:59AM (#38950084)
Google has grown their marketshare a lot during the last few years.

They sell a lot of them, very very far from zero...

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by JonChesterfield on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:55AM (#38950542)
I like my pixel. Guess I'm going back to Samsung, sad times.
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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by alangibson on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:53AM (#38950523)
They sold one to me since OnePlus fell off.
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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by alexeiz on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:03PM (#38959044)
Pixel phones are OK. They are just not priced competitively. They are priced like iPhones. But who are you kidding? Pixel phones are nowhere near iPhones.
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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by kccqzy on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:34PM (#38959454)
Pixel phones actually take better photos than iPhones. See for example a recent test https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoTOE3FqT0

OTOH I browse JavaScript heavy websites on my phone and I believe due to single-threaded performance, Chrome on Android is noticeably worse than Safari on iPhone.

My point is, Pixels are better than iPhones for some use cases and vice versa.

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by poulpy123 on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:21AM (#38968216)
I disagree, they have the best mid-range (300-500€) phone, and iPhone is not even proposing anything in this range
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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by madars on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:03PM (#38960772)
12% of phone sales in iPhone-heavy Japan are Pixels and Apple has fallen below 1/2 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/iphones-s...
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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by mrastro on Friday January 12, 2024 @12:49PM (#38971370)
For people that care about vendor lock-in (which granted doesn't seem to be many), Pixels are great. They are supported on just about every network and you can root it if you desire.

I'm a happy Pixel owner.

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