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Google Unveils Pixel Phone, Smart Home Hub, and More at AI-Focused Event

Some strong lessons for Apple to heed. Exempt photos (not video) from iCloud storage limit with immediate effect.
 
Stella said:
Looks like a good phone, all-round.

Something the iPhone needs:
"Get up to 7 hours of battery life in just 15 minutes. ⁴"

The unlimited storage is good too - even for video.
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Fast charging is what kills batteries in under a year. There's a reason why Apple hasn't adopted it wholesale... only partially. There's definitely a trade off.
 
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Sefstah said:
Googles gonna steal your info and sell it, blah blah blah. Let the complaining begin
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Well it is true. You aren't really Google's customer (unless your buying a Pixel) you're Google's product. Apple realized this and has made security and privacy a key selling point. I think it will continue to pay dividends in the future. In the meantime NOT having all that access to personal usage and data is going to hamstring Siri compared to the competition.
 
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I don't get the design of these phones. They have the iPhone bezel but no home button! It's weird. It's like they wanted to look like an iPhone (and save me the arguments about "omg it's a rectangle") without the reasons the iPhone looks the way it does.
 
monkmartinez said:
Which is why Apple is selling less iPhones. They need to do something different.
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Sigh. Great point. Kudos. You really nailed this one.
T'hain Esh Kelch said:
No offence taken! I am not talking about the phone, as it is quite uninteresting, except from a security POV, as Android updates will likely come fast and regularly to this phone.

I am talking more about Google Assistant, and Google Home, because this is the first steps into a *very* large business that Apple is also very much interested in - Cook has said as much up front.
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Absolutely! In that sense, Google is waaaaay ahead.
 
Google Wifi looks promising. I won't buy until I see some real world reviews, but I've been looking into a Mesh solution for awhile now and this could be it.
 
D.T. said:
*If* I was going to go Android as my primary device , no question, I'd go with one of these phones (probably the larger).



Why so concerned :D

Side note: clearly you tend to take a bit of - let's call it - a proactive promoting position on things-not-Apple, that's cool, I do the same with other brands, however, I'm 99.9% aligned with your perspective in the PRSI area (which I don't mind saying has surprised me a bit) :)

Honestly, I'd rather us have matching ideals about the future of our country vs. any agreement on silly electronic devices. :cool:
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Thanks - It's not so much my tech alignment - I really have none. I just use the best tech for what I need to get done. I don't judge others for their decisions. You have to do what's best for your use case.
 
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oneMadRssn said:
I disagree. This phone specifically is not much concern to Apple. But Google's whole ecosystem is surely a huge concern, and that was the main focus of today's presentation. Ecosystems are what sell more stuff. If Google can convince an Apple user to buy a Chromecast, and then perhaps try the Google Home, and then suddenly buying a Google phone isn't so far fetched.

Also, I think Google's ads with the "Storage Full" error while taking photos on the iPhone resonates really well. Even if you haven't seen that error message since your trusty old iPhone 4, it still resonates and is very relateable. As mentioned above, it gets people to think about using Google's ecosystem. It starts with using Google Photos on iOS to store all your photos, because it's free and the resolution is good enough, or the high-resolution storage plan is cheaper than iCloud. Then why not buy a Chromecast so the photos can be enjoyed on the TV, plus it works with most streaming apps on iOS too. Then might as well buy a Google Home as my next speaker, and so on...

I think Apple has to address the photos storage full ad campaign and they have to do it ASAP.
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Yes, I personally use Google Photos for this very reason.
Google software pushes Apple. Samsung hardware pushes Apple. If they could actually combine that into a fluid ecosystem...
 
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UK Pricing right now from major phone supplier.

Pixel XL 128GB is exactly the same price as an iPhone 7 Plus 128GB

I'm not saying the Pixel XL is a bad phone at all, it's just not THAT cutting edge to be at iPhone 7 Plus or Samsung Edge Price points.

That's just crazy pricing, Google must be mad.
 
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Not particularly interested in any of it (not to say they're bad products, because they ain't) but I'd probably cop that wi-fi access point if I wasn't so reliant on wireless Time Machine backups.
 
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