In a new report, it’s found that the Google Pixel 9 launch has led to the “highest-ever” sales for a single quarter.

  • @PlantJam
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    131 month ago

    I wonder how much of this can be attributed to the 9 pro being a more normal size? Better camera, no gimmicky curved edge, and still fits in a pocket.

    • Adam
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      41 month ago

      Honestly, this thing blows my 6 pro out of the water.

      For all those reasons.

    • TJA!
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      31 month ago

      I got it for that reason but it still feels too big

      • @forgotaboutlaye
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        11 month ago

        It’s thicker than I’d have hoped, but the side to side decrease in size is amazing compared to my P6P.

        I’d take thick over less battery any day.

  • @reddig33
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    129 days ago

    That new camera bump is hideous compared to the previous design.

  • @[email protected]
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    -51 month ago

    I see copying Apple’s homework continues to be a lucrative, if boring and dystopian, strategy for phone manufacturers

    • Fuck Yankies
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      101 month ago

      I think it’s great, because you get a good quality phone you can stick Graphene OS on and say fuck off, Google…

      Think about it. You get a Google phone, to get further away from Google, because it has the best support for third party ROMs. It’s maddening.

      This comment written from a Google Pixel 9.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      31 month ago

      Apple hasn’t been an industry leader for decades. The reality is actually the opposite of what you said. There’s no innovation coming out of iOS. Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS. iPhone does have some good things going for it, but they’re far from innovators or industry leaders these days.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        Didn’t say they were. But the pixel 9 undeniably looks more like an iPhone than previous pixels.

        Frankly, I haven’t seen anything I would call innovation from any manufacturer in the smartphone industry in years. Just the occasional parlor trick. The industry is continuing its slow crawl towards more and more similar devices.

        And I’m writing this from a pixel 8, for whatever that’s worth.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          130 days ago

          Yeah, for what it’s worth, so people don’t think I’m a fanboy, I am on a Pixel 7, but I bought the iPhone 16 Pro, pretty excited to try it out, and returned it within a week. It did not meet my expectations for a $1200 phone.

      • @Lizardking13
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        130 days ago

        How exactly has apple not been an industry leader? They are the industry leader.

          • @Lizardking13
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            129 days ago

            No, not really. You just stated it over and over again. I think there is a conflation of innovation and industry leader.

            So many tech companies try to copy apple. They try to figure out what makes apple successful and mimic that. Apple continues to grow. Their products are largely loved by people. What else do you need to be an industry leader?

            • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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              29 days ago

              Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS.

              These are not statements one would make about an innovative industry leader.

    • Echo Dot
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      1 month ago

      Yeah because Apple was the first. 🙄

      Apple has quite literally never invented anything, everything they do is copying, shut the hell up

  • @WhyFlip
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    -71 month ago

    Fuck Google.