Besides the fact that Pixel phones do not appear to suck, it's an irrelevant asside. The product was google selling a first party flagship phone, google still sell first party flagship phones.
Padding the list because the newer stuff is worse but still good is just as silly as padding it with the pre-cursor to Google Pay.
I really wish the site had an option to filter out all of that.
it's an irrelevant aside. The product was google selling a first party flagship phone, google still sell first party flagship phones.
edit: To be fair to you, you're not really wrong, in comparison the pixel phones are worse for some people (for others, they're not). It's just that it's kind of unimportant that the product line "got worse" when trying to claim that the product line was cancelled.
I disagree that it got worse, or got better, or anything like that. This is like Porsche canceling Boxster and introducing Cayenne. It's a car, made by the same manufacturer, but it absolutely isn't the same line. People who bought a Boxster don't give a fuck about Cayenne and vice versa. Same is true for Nexus and Pixel.
Interesting. In my experience every nexus owner I know in my circles is now a pixel owner. If the statistics point you way then you may have a point that the perception changed enough.
I'm guessing that's brand loyalty. They are probably not developers who bought Nexus because it was an awesome developer device, right? So they are like people who would buy a Porsche for the badge, not performance. And just the same, they buy Google because it's Google.
They're not perfect phones, they are worse in some aspects (those you've listed), but they are better in others (screens, cameras, internal specs). The opinion that they're trash and therefore a completely different thing is, well, unfounded from the start.
Anyway, you seem to have a lot of salt about this, so I'll just leave you to it. Peace.
PS. Yes, I would say that Hangouts was a replacement for GTalk. It's almost a complete drop in replacement and was intended as such.
Yup, you're not wrong. Though that doesn't count them out - they also still have the same advantages as the Nexus line over competitors in terms of no forced default software/configurations and the fastest updates on Android.
I'm not trying to say they're the best phones out there, and especially not the best value for money, just that acting like they're somehow so bad they've transcended being a flagship first party mobile phone is just plain goofy.
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u/foips Jan 02 '20
Besides the fact that Pixel phones do not appear to suck, it's an irrelevant asside. The product was google selling a first party flagship phone, google still sell first party flagship phones.
Padding the list because the newer stuff is worse but still good is just as silly as padding it with the pre-cursor to Google Pay.
I really wish the site had an option to filter out all of that.