“With Google putting so much marketing effort into their latest Pixel 2 phones, coupled with dozens of positive reviews, I assumed this may finally be moment where Samsung would be unseated as Android’s King,” Mark Reschke writes for TGAAP.
“Google, via their latest smartphone hardware and owning Android software design, would be the new Android task master taking on Apple’s dominate iPhone lineup. Would this mark the moment iPhone is dethroned? The moment so many in the paid-off tech media have been waiting for?” Reschke writes. “No. Not even close. In fact, Google’s newest Pixel 2 phones may be the laziest products Google has developed in quite some time… I question even using the word ‘developed.'”
“Google has a chin and forehead on their latest Pixel phones, firmly putting their latest and greatest phones in last place within the high-end bezel-less smartphone race.,” Reschke writes. “Speaking of high-end, the price of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones are ridiculous. Pixel 2 starts at $649, and the Pixel 2 XL starts at $849. I said ridiculous, but make that utterly ridiculous. Why? Let’s go beyond nothing new to see here, to omissions and lack of features and see why these phones are so overpriced for what they are. A year ago Google bemoaned the fact iPhone 7’s removed the essential mini headphone jack, but suddenly that no longer matters to the Alphabet company. The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have not only removed the mini headphone jack from their phones, but they don’t even ship with headphones!”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Unsurprisingly, just more slooooow, derivative, wannabe crap from Google.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
SEE ALSO:
Prior to Steve Jobs unveiling of Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android didn’t support touchscreen input – April 14, 2014
Before iPhone, Google’s plan was a Java button phone, Android docs reveal – April 14, 2014
How Google reacted when Steve Jobs revealed the revolutionary iPhone – December 19, 2013
Apple to ITC: Android started at Apple while Andy Rubin worked for us – September 2, 2011
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Now that Pixel 2 has done away with a headphone jack, PIxel 3 will have also a notch, just as Samsung phones soon will.
Anybody who has used Apple products for many years will be well used to the routine. Apple does something innovative, everybody else laughs and criticises but ends up eventually doing exactly what they were initially laughing at.
“That new fangled Macintosh computer uses a mouse and windows – Real computers use the Command Line interface”
Subsequently: Welcome to Windows”
“Macs have done away with floppy disks – OMG that’s awful”
Subsequently: “Nobody used floppy disks any more”
“”$500? Fully subsidized? With a plan?” … “That is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.”
Subsequently: “… the industry has moved, the technology has moved, the hardware has moved” “Welcome to Windows Phone 7”
Subsequently: …crickets … ( The industry had already moved to IOS and Android )
Can’t wait for the “copiers” to release phones with OLED displays, small bezels and wireless charging now that Apple’s invented it.
It’s only a matter of time, everyone copies Apple eventually.
Ha! Good one. 😉
#Courage
My experience is that it’s one of the best smartphones I’ve ever used. So no, definitely not “their worst ever.”
#Omg