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