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The simplest way to look at is by considering the incentives. No phone right now is competing with the iPhone because that brand is just too powerful. So offering the market something else makes sense. You want to be unique and stand out. It seems like the pixel does that very well. Also, remember that Google isn’t perfect. They’ve had a lot of horrible business decisions and projects that failed. Remember the Google glasses.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 1y ago

Maybe it is just that.

Still, I don't like trusting things. I like to verify. And I can't. Being a skeptic I'm going to have the other hypothesis.

I went to The Plaza today (the mall in Palmerston North) and tried to get a case for my Google Pixel 8. There are no less than 3 (I think actually 5) shops in the mall that pretty much only sell cases ... or maybe do phone repairs too, or also have stickers and glitter, or whatever but mostly they sell mobile phone cases. None of them had any cases for this phone. None of the major phone providers (Spark, 2degrees, One) sell the Google Pixel phones.. Only Spark says they can support it on the air, the other ones do not list it as a supported phone on their network. I had to buy it online. Is it just NZ where this phone is rare? I get the impression that it's not a common phone anywhere. Checking online, they have 4.6% of the US market, far more than the NZ market, but I guess that is up from 3.6% two years ago.

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MAHDOOD 1y ago

That’s pretty surprising I thought there would be more users. They have ads for their phone in the nba playoffs this year. So they’re trying to push it out and maybe we will see more people with it in the future.

I think the most useful statistic is to compare the pixel market to other Android devices. How many more people are using Samsung instead of pixel

Islamic Audiobooks Central 1y ago

They are only officially sold in a handful of countries and in NZ you're paying a premium for it compared to people in Australia or the US.

Plus I think the only reputable vendor for it here is Mighty Ape and they got sold to a Chinese company although I'm not sure if it's affected their level of service...

The German company #Volla has decent spec phones with community support for #UbuntuTouch.