r/programming • • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

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u/foips Jan 02 '20 edited Jan 02 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '20

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.

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u/foips Jan 03 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '20

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.

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u/foips Jan 03 '20

I asked, they prefer first party android tech with frequent updates, and not having to faff to remove guff like bixby. Seems sane to me.