At least on a hardware perspective
Google kind of nailed it. Yeah.
Talking about the phones as phones is actually really easy and like
straightforward.
Because they’re great. They’re iPhones from the front.
This is like… Everybody’s just made their phone into an iPhone.
And I think that’s fine, you know the
the sides are flat, the screens are bright.
You know, the bezels are all uniform, etcetera.
They look and feel really good.
In a way that the last couple generations of Pixel phones were like eh.
I don’t know.
I can see why you charge like $200 less for this than like a Galaxy S24 Plus.
But this time around they like nailed it.
It’s right right up there with the
with the best of the best.
I think I feel like this was finally Google saying like,
what if we just made it really nice?
Which feels which feels like an insult,
but I think your
your point about the price I think is exactly right.
Cause I feel like Google has been caught in this thing,
since the beginning of the Pixel.
Where the goal was to make a really high end phone
for not a really high end price.
And uh increasingly there are fewer and fewer ways you can cheap out on a phone.
The processor is no longer one of them.
Cause you have to do all this AI stuff.
You have to do all the camera stuff.
Like you need the processor.
So you can’t save money there.
You can’t save money on the camera.
So one of the ways to save money is basically
by making the thing itself cheaper and less nice right.
It makes it easier to make the materials less expensive.
All that is fine and good
but Google just never got it there.
Like it never was able to make a nice thing at that price.
And I feel like this time,
whatever you wanna say about the price.
I think it is it’s a bummer that it’s gotten more expensive over time.
But the fact that they were just like okay,
this is now a flagship phone.
And we’re gonna do all the flagshippy things to it
feels like the right call.