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Google's New $499 Pixel 9a Tops the iPhone 16e in Four Ways
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The Pixel also comes in a nicer range of colours that will appeal to more people
The iPhone is the dominate smartphone in the US. It's as mass-market here as a brand can be and has zero luxury image...you can buy them at Walmart, ffs.
We're all expecting the 16e to drop to $499 when the 17 comes out right?
I did, read it wrong for some reason lol I was like this is cheap for a smartphone
That Pixel is a nice phone. Also check out the Redmagic 10 Pro. Apple better get working on better efficiency and lowering prices.
I'm confused about how the competition was possible without the EU making the rules.
Google briefly delays Pixel 9A release to investigate “component quality issue”
It sounds like Google aimed to ship the 9A this month.
www.theverge.com
And it's coming in April because they found an issue with the early units.
The Pixel 9 is discounted to $50 less than the 16e where I live. It's a no-brainer (unless you're stuck into iOS like most of us).
Sadly, the 16e was priced not to cannibalize the 16 market and not in Pixel 9e territory where it belongs.
Sadly, the 16e was priced not to cannibalize the 16 market and not in Pixel 9e territory where it belongs.
This is how you not make a profit. Sorry Android.
No. One year of software updates and three for security. They are the Bic disposable phones.
The EU rules apply to everyone not just Apple.
Just Apple Music & Apple TV+ (there's also Apple Music Classical & Shazam, of course).
Spot-on. Why would anyone that immensely enjoys using the Apple ecosystem and its ease-of-use and privacy focused design ever want to go with an android phone?
To save a hundred bucks? Yeah... go for it. Good luck!
I’d be really happy to never see the phrase ecosystem again. Hard for me to imagine people being so enamored with electronics this way, especially the “if I wasn’t so deep in the ecosystem…” people. Nothing in your life will be worse if your devices don’t speak to each other in the same way apples do. I purposefully avoid connecting my apple devices in this way and can’t bother having all my stuff synced up, what a pain. My phone is my phone, my computer is my computer.
The cult-like marketing language has worked on too many people.
The cult-like marketing language has worked on too many people.
It’s not going to happen especially in the United States. Folks in here pretending as if the 16e isn’t going to sell better than the pixel.I hope that many people try and switch.
The market needs it
Agreed. And Apple's Siri debacle is appalling given the speed of innovation that Google is showing with Gemini.
I'll repeat what I've said in another post here:
Apple's seeming inability to roll out competitive LLMs and a digital assistant to match Gemini, is a little like Nokia and Blackberry not having an answer to the iPhone in 2008.
Not a disaster right at that time - but a disaster by 2010.
Just because you don’t care about ecosystems doesn’t mean others have to follow suit. Many consumers like the streamlined and seamless experience an ecosystem brings.