XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: algeriahoran@algeriahoran.net   
      
   Lewis wrote:   
      
   > An iPhone 5S represents several (18?) Cray X-MP machines in your pocket.   
   > The 7 is *far* more powerful.   
   >   
   > I think the Cray started at around $5,000,000.   
      
   That doesn't change the fact that the price:performance ratio of the Pixel   
   line to the iPhone 7 line is exactly the same.   
      
   There are millions of Android users whose economic decisions span the   
   spectrum, but, in general, the price:performance ratio of the Pixel is   
   dismal compared to the price:performance ratio of the previous Nexus and   
   Moto line of Google phones.   
      
   Given that the price:performance ratio of the Pixel line of phones is about   
   half of what it was for previous lines of Google phones, it will be   
   interesting to see if the Pixel sells to the Android customer.   
      
   I don't know how well or poorly the Pixel line of phones will sell, but I   
   don't think it will sell to the Android market, overall. I predict it won't   
   sell, and that Google *knows* this, and that Google has bigger plans.   
      
   I suspect Google is aiming at eroding the Apple franchise on overpriced   
   high-end equipment. This isn't to say Apple customers will flock to the   
   Pixel, as Apple customers are an amazingly loyal (and wasteful) crowd who   
   are the ones who make Apple one of the most profitable phone manufacturers   
   in the world. So Apple customers won't change over to the Pixel.   
      
   However, I don't think Android customers will settle for such a horrid   
   price:performance ratio either; and I don't think Google will halve the   
   price to where it belongs to get to an acceptable price:performance level   
   for Android customers.   
      
   So there is far more to this story than just what is obvious, since Google   
   marketing certainly knows everything I said, so they have a plan that takes   
   all that into account already.   
      
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