XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: algeriahoran@algeriahoran.net   
      
   tlvp wrote:   
      
   > Really? In comparison with the performance they deliver, their price is   
   > *dismally low*? Great -- I may just buy one, then :-) . The lower the   
   > price, or the higher the performance, after all, the lower that   
   > price/performance ratio, so I'm all for trying to minimize that :-) .   
      
   We already have a thread comparing the Nexus phone to the iPhone where the   
   Nexus was essentially equivalent for the things that mattered to me where   
   the Nexus phone was about half the price.   
      
   So, for the same performance of the things that mattered, the   
   price:performance ratio of the Apple equipment was half as good a ratio.   
      
   Now, for *you*, the price:performance of the things that matter to *you* is   
   whatever equation *you* make it, so the ratio is different for everyone   
   when the phones are not *exactly* the same.   
      
   However, in the case of the Pixel phones versus the iPhone 7, they're   
   almost exactly the same price and feature list, so, in this case, the   
   price:performance is basically exactly the same.   
      
   That means that they *both* have an utterly dismal price:performance ratio.   
   I can't see the future, so I can only predict that the Android customers   
   won't pay for such a dismal price:performance ratio.   
      
   So, I predict that the Pixel phones will fail miserably in the market   
   unless the price is dropped (the performance is fine).   
      
   If they drop the Pixel price in half (or thereabouts), the   
   price:performance will be on par with many other Android phones - and that   
   would make the Pixel competitive in the Android market (in my humble   
   opinion).   
      
   Given that I don't think the Pixel will sell, and that I doubt Google will   
   drop the price in half (where it belongs), it will be interesting to see   
   what happens to the market, as a result of the phone not selling at that   
   price.   
      
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