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Google's New Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Smartphones Likely to Debut at Upcoming October 9 Event
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I love people like you. So naively full of yourself.
If you can't admit they make good phones, you can at least be thankful for the competition they present, which motivates Apple to make better iPhones. Many reviewers agree that the Pixel's have the best cameras, so there is certainly room to grow.
Nothing naive about it. The Pixel has had no effect on the iPhone and is largely a failed product from Google like most of their hardware. The camera is good, but it’s ugly, uses plastic and copies the iPhone. Notch, no headphone jack, gesture based OS, and even the look of the original was very iPhone.
Samsung is a much more worthy competitor. Competition is great, but the Pixel is not competition...at least to Apple.
Can you hear yourself talking? You have such a narrow point of view. You use absolutes and say that it has had "no effect."
Here's a link with professional and user ratings from a well-established source that shows people like the Pixel 2 XL at least as much if not more than the iPhone X. https://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Apple-iPhone-X,Google-Pixel-2-XL/phones/10414,10568
Also, as I mentioned, the Pixel subjectively has the better camera. People buy it for the camera. I highly doubt Apple has flat out ignored their photo processing software that it has brought with it.
Also, Samsung is a great competitor, you're right! But Google has brought more of the "walled garden" that Apple has to Android. It's stock Android. Nothing else. It clearly matters.
As I said, you are naive. But I'm sure you'll come out of it eventually. Many of us used to be you. It's not that we don't like the iPhone, we just don't worship it.
This notch looks like a damn deep crotch.
I do not know why people need to have Apple's insensible design decisions as well. Apple had a limitation, the other guys did not have to copy that damn notch.
I do not know why people need to have Apple's insensible design decisions as well. Apple had a limitation, the other guys did not have to copy that damn notch.
Curious, what phone are you currently using?
First it was thick bezels, now it's the notch. Would a tear drop suffice?
Yeah, because the headphone jack was superseded by what....?
That's right, NOTHING.
Wireless... that’s the whole point of the jack removal to transition to wireless. As we will soon be transitioning to wireless charging, etc...
The fact that they still include an adapter for headphones is just to ease this transition
They won't. I like the fact that after being accused of copying iPhone years ago, they found their own path. While everyone else is copying iPhone.
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What headphone jack?
Ah, forgot. The one ancestors used while ago.....
I can't believe they used to have wires going across their body straight to their ears! They most have looked really weird
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URL: https://www.androidcentral.com/does-google-sell-your-data
There seems to be a LOT of mis-information about what Google does with the information collected from people that uses it's services.
Firstly there is incorrect information in bold above ... Google is NOT supposed to share ANY data from a Google Suite domain accounts (that's actually against any privacy act and part of their specific mission statement of their G-Suite services; formerly known long ago back in 2012 as Google Apps.
I'm sure google sells personal data, just annonymitized (no no names are linked with your gender, height, preference, places you've visited, search items, links selected in the search results, etc. problem is their model of the USER being their income revenue stream so it's VERY difficult to believe anything on their site that they don't sell your data.
To me, as a large business ... Search Ads doesn't make enough revenue or brand interest to me than a billboard. MANY people on the internet younger than those that grew up on AOL, yeah I said that, don't click on ads from search results. To a large business the following is more lucrative of data:
What the user searched for, is it related to my brand, products, or services I sell?
How often did they search for it?
Did the user search for a competing brands product, or did their search contain generic items e.g. 'basketball shoes'?
Has the user searched in the last 30 mins an item I've produced or service I offer?
Has the user purchased an item previously that I sell, if so and very recently, then my ad if structured could benefit a deal to said user offering them a compatible product/service.
Can I link said users' search results to a rewards card such as AirMiles that I've partnered with? (again offering them a deal leading to more sales, or membership growth or membership directly to my company)
What is the user willing to pay for my product and service?
How long is the user willing to wait for the product and services I offer to be delivered?
What its the users expected quality level for said products/services I offer vs the competition?
Has the user been disenchanted towards my products/services/brand of late?
Has the user visited or registered to any activist or protests against my product and services? (maybe a placement for corporate statement awareness and brand name re-recognition is required vs trying to sell them a product or service)
^ All that data and then some is more important than just Google Ads. Somehow their making far to much for such limited data.
In your dreams. There is quite a following for the Pixel range.
However, Google must sort out their update policy. They need to make a public commitment to provide updates to their phones for at least 5 years. That would put them on a par with Apple and set a standard for other Android suppliers to follow.
As people are looking to keep their phones longer these days support periods start to become important.
Oh, and Google should commit to provide upgrades as well as updates. The OS that is supposed to replace Android should be released for these devices.
As for Google selling your data to advertisers... There has to be some information exchange otherwise how would targetted advertising work unless Google itself has become an Ad Agency or is working as a de-facto extension to the Ad Agencies?
I'd love for someone to spill the beans on for targetted adverts work. I have a good idea but my understanding is based on information I got almost 9 years ago and it has no doubt moved on a lot since then.
Don't rush to believe the "leaked" model. It might (just might) be the most successful trolling in the smartphone history.
Leader? Oppo removed the headphone jack in 2012. Their version sucked and didnt take off. But then another company did a USBtype C phone with no headphone jack.
Then Motorola with the MotoZ was also before apple.
So Apple, claiming to the be leader after others start the process.
I wonder if anyone has watched this video?
The TL;DR is that google has apparently been contacting various youtubers for permission to use their review footage of the Pixel 3 (and the footage tend to be overwhelmingly negative about said product). Which does sound odd. What if the phone being leaked isn't the real Pixel 3 and this is just one giant practical joke, and Google actually has a way better-looking phone in the works?
I don't like any notch. I think it's poor design. Yet, this looks like they were not even trying. No idea how something like this got the go-ahead to go to market.
Apple should leak a image of the next iPhone with a fake extra large notch on, then sit back a wait till all these other phone makers copy the fake crappy design lol
Then at the media event pull the iPhone out and just peel the extra long notch sticker right off the screen. #BOOM #Scrollslikebutter
Then at the media event pull the iPhone out and just peel the extra long notch sticker right off the screen. #BOOM #Scrollslikebutter
I am tempted to leave the Apple eco-system as it has become expensive and stale. I was looking forward to the google pixel 3 as my ticket out. But my god that notch is the worst I have seen on any smart phone. I might just stay a little longer till this notch fad ends.