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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    920 hours 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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      319 hours ago

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

      For all those reasons.

    • TJA!
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      218 hours ago

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

      • @forgotaboutlaye
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        110 hours 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.

  • @WhyFlip
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    -614 hours ago

    Fuck Google.

  • @[email protected]
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    -314 hours ago

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

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      210 hours 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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        112 minutes 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.

    • Fuck Yankies
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      714 hours 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.

    • Echo Dot
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah because Apple was the first. 🙄

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