Where is the bezel free design? Where is the wireless charging? Where is the fingerprint scanner under the display? If this were Apple everyone would be complaining about how fugly and boring it looks. The only thing it has going for it is no camera bump? Big deal.
No smoking Gun here. If history is any witness, everyone including Google knows that building and selling android phones in crowded market is not Google's forte. If "price is not right"(which looks like it does) than these two Google's PIXEL phones are DOA(dead on arrival). Google may seriously want to subsidize them heavily to succeed. Android ecosystem that Google created dictates the main feature of any android gadget has to be way cheaper on price for people to consider buying. Simple logic. If I have to spend similar money as iPhone than I rather buy iPhone. THE END.
iPhone has awesome Specs, build quality,etc plus IOS is lot simpler,smoother and with zero to little hack-able vulnerabilities.
Where is the bezel free design? Where is the wireless charging? Where is the fingerprint scanner under the display? If this were Apple everyone would be complaining about how fugly and boring it looks. The only thing it has going for it is no camera bump? Big deal.
Agreed, it's a pretty plain design, nothing outstanding about it IMHO. Boring is an apt description.
Why did Google make a VR headset in "crimeson"? Why not blue to match their NEW phone? Apparently Google VR didn't know what color phones where coming out today, oops....
Google didn't copy Apple, it copied Amazon's Fire Phone, releasing a boring me-too copycat phone at a premium price. $650 for a 32GB phone? Ridiculous. And why do they insist on this insane 4K resolution on a 5.5" screen? All it does is cost power pushing around pixels nobody can see without a magnifying glass. I bet you'll see this phone heavily discounted on ebay within a couple of months.
How is this design not a complete ripoff of the iPhone???
HTC would tell you it was they who were ripped off if anyone was. The latest HTC-produced smartphones are evolutions of the HTC original design that began with the 2013 One M7 at least as they claim.
yeah, evolved right into an iPhone. imagine that. what are the chances that their designers came up w/ the same thing years later? amazing!
I noticed they took seveal cheap shots at Apple during this keynote. When is the last time Apple did that? Last time I can remember is when they announced the iPad mini. I don't like it. Not classy at all.
Agreed. I was impressed when Apple did _not_ take advantage of Samsung's battery situation during their keynote, and I was hoping Google had the same level of class, but they failed on this, sadly. Other than that, this product announcement was very well done and professional. They've truly matured, but it shows just how far Apple was ahead of the rest on the marketplace, and now the rest have caught up. Apple better keep going ...
thats two times in this thread you've expressed "concern" for apple. in which ways specifically has the iPhone been "falling behind on several fronts"?
Where is the bezel free design? Where is the wireless charging? Where is the fingerprint scanner under the display? If this were Apple everyone would be complaining about how fugly and boring it looks. The only thing it has going for it is no camera bump? Big deal.
How is this design not a complete ripoff of the iPhone???
Ridiculous. They even copied the rumored blue color for the iPhone7
Pathetic company. I watched some of the 'event' and it played like a parody of an Apple event. So sad and pathetic. They should stick to ads
ROFTL! Copied a rumor? When did Apple announce they'd have a blue one? Oh wait, they didn't. . . . Perhaps whoever started the blue iPhone rumor was reacting to knowledge of a blue one coming from Google.
How is this design not a complete ripoff of the iPhone???
Ridiculous. They even copied the rumored blue color for the iPhone7
Pathetic company. I watched some of the 'event' and it played like a parody of an Apple event. So sad and pathetic. They should stick to ads
Actually, while I've developed an anti-Google stance, I'm extremely impressed by what they've pulled together, and how they're delivering an elegant, well-executed experience. I have tremendous respect for what they are announcing today. It really puts a spotlight on how Apple is falling behind on several fronts. Apple does have the huge advantage of in-house development of high-performance hardware that is not accessible to competitors, but that same competition is delivering in ways that are truly meaningful to end users.
The advantages that Apple brings to the marketplace is greatly blurred and subdued after today.
Like? Can you be more specific? I watched the whole keynote and saw nothing of relevance.
All I saw was a panic attack after Apple starting to open Siri to devs, a lower quality homekit competitor so Android doesn't get left for dead, a phone with pretty standard/medium hardware specifications (SoC, etc.) at iPhone 7/Galaxy prices and an worse, second grade, design (that, down to the wallpaper, is a pathetic attempt of a "me too" copy of it) and that's it.
Oh, I also saw the heads of the few users that bought Google's previous OnHub router explode.
There's nothing there that you can't do better on iOS. Nothing. Heck, you better believe that Google will have more iOS users using their most uptodate Apps (as far as latest API levels) than Android users, too.
But hey, still talking about the headphone jack. Let's revise this next year.
I have to agree on this one. Google is blatantly and flagrantly copying Apple. The Google experience in being an "elegant and well-developed" one should be. It is identically cloned from what Apple is doing.
I don't see the Pixel competing with iPhone. It is more like an opportunistic ability to take business from Samsung and the Note 7.
Apple has moved into the dominant position with respect to hardware and the SoC is the key. Putting on a USB-C port and additional RAM is nice, but the 7+ comes with 3 GB of its own. And while I know the large screen iPad Pro can handle the faster USB interface, I don't know about the newer iPhones. I doubt that it matters. Most people who buy Android phones do so on the basis of cost, not features.
Google will fail once again. The A11 will be out in less than a year.
Samsung was selling a ton (2.5 M in just weeks) of $850 Notes until that breakout blew up in their face. And they've sold millions of Galaxies, although mostly at discount to retail.
I noticed they took seveal cheap shots at Apple during this keynote. When is the last time Apple did that? Last time I can remember is when they announced the iPad mini. I don't like it. Not classy at all.
Agreed. I was impressed when Apple did _not_ take advantage of Samsung's battery situation during their keynote, and I was hoping Google had the same level of class, but they failed on this, sadly. Other than that, this product announcement was very well done and professional. They've truly matured, but it shows just how far Apple was ahead of the rest on the marketplace, and now the rest have caught up. Apple better keep going ...
Have the rest actually caught up?
I see the Google Pixel as decidedly status quo, good enough for the market, great for Google, but no breakthrough product or disruption. Their imaging pipeline is outstanding, but in a world where even Google is pushing computational photography to improve the Pixel, why stop at a single lens? If anything, Google is catching up with Apple, a bit anyway, with their Pixel business model being more of a closed ecosystem, relative to the Android OS market, giving more control over updates than the OEM's have. That said, Google will make some money on this and grow it into a decent business, but likely at the expense of the OEM's.
The rest of the hardware isn't really competing all that much with Apple as much as with Amazon; good luck with that.
How is this design not a complete ripoff of the iPhone???
Ridiculous. They even copied the rumored blue color for the iPhone7
Pathetic company. I watched some of the 'event' and it played like a parody of an Apple event. So sad and pathetic. They should stick to ads
Actually, while I've developed an anti-Google stance, I'm extremely impressed by what they've pulled together, and how they're delivering an elegant, well-executed experience. I have tremendous respect for what they are announcing today. It really puts a spotlight on how Apple is falling behind on several fronts. Apple does have the huge advantage of in-house development of high-performance hardware that is not accessible to competitors, but that same competition is delivering in ways that are truly meaningful to end users.
The advantages that Apple brings to the marketplace is greatly blurred and subdued after today.
Please tell me what fronts Apple are falling behind on?
Seriously guys, is it not possible to be a follower of one company without trash-talking everyone else?
I am Google fan that stumbled into this site to see what the other side was thinking about the announcement, but you have been totally blinded by the distortion field...
Who will pay $649 for an Android phone? Lots and lots of people.
Cheap plastic imitation of an iPhone? How about aluminum unibody, best mobile camera, QHD amoled screen
Value for money? Free life time cloud storage of all your photos and videos in original format (4K). How much is that iCloud plan?
Apple is not the only one that can create premium products, and Samsung have proven that a premium Android device is possible. Hopefully Google can, by controlling both the software and hardware, create the best Android experience possible.
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At the worst possible price point. Unless they're Apple.
Guess who they're not.
thats two times in this thread you've expressed "concern" for apple. in which ways specifically has the iPhone been "falling behind on several fronts"?
I don't see the Pixel competing with iPhone. It is more like an opportunistic ability to take business from Samsung and the Note 7.
Apple has moved into the dominant position with respect to hardware and the SoC is the key. Putting on a USB-C port and additional RAM is nice, but the 7+ comes with 3 GB of its own. And while I know the large screen iPad Pro can handle the faster USB interface, I don't know about the newer iPhones. I doubt that it matters. Most people who buy Android phones do so on the basis of cost, not features.
Google will fail once again. The A11 will be out in less than a year.
And, oh, it's "who's"....fwiw
I see the Google Pixel as decidedly status quo, good enough for the market, great for Google, but no breakthrough product or disruption. Their imaging pipeline is outstanding, but in a world where even Google is pushing computational photography to improve the Pixel, why stop at a single lens? If anything, Google is catching up with Apple, a bit anyway, with their Pixel business model being more of a closed ecosystem, relative to the Android OS market, giving more control over updates than the OEM's have. That said, Google will make some money on this and grow it into a decent business, but likely at the expense of the OEM's.
The rest of the hardware isn't really competing all that much with Apple as much as with Amazon; good luck with that.
I am Google fan that stumbled into this site to see what the other side was thinking about the announcement, but you have been totally blinded by the distortion field...
Who will pay $649 for an Android phone? Lots and lots of people.
Cheap plastic imitation of an iPhone? How about aluminum unibody, best mobile camera, QHD amoled screen
Value for money? Free life time cloud storage of all your photos and videos in original format (4K). How much is that iCloud plan?
Apple is not the only one that can create premium products, and Samsung have proven that a premium Android device is possible. Hopefully Google can, by controlling both the software and hardware, create the best Android experience possible.