11mo ago

Google Pixel sees 'highest-ever' quarterly sales on the back of Pixel 9 launch

9to5google.com

In a new report, it's found that the Google Pixel 9 launch has led to the "highest-ever" sales for a single quarter.

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I wonder how much of this can be attributed to the 9 pro being a more normal size? Better camera, no gimmicky curved edge, and still fits in a pocket.
- Honestly, this thing blows my 6 pro out of the water.
  For all those reasons.
- I got it for that reason but it still feels too big
  
  It's thicker than I'd have hoped, but the side to side decrease in size is amazing compared to my P6P.
  I'd take thick over less battery any day.
That new camera bump is hideous compared to the previous design.
I see copying Apple's homework continues to be a lucrative, if boring and dystopian, strategy for phone manufacturers
- How's graphene on the 9? I'm procrastinating but my 5 is dying
- Apple hasn't been an industry leader for decades. The reality is actually the opposite of what you said. There's no innovation coming out of iOS. Android launches cool features and 4-6 years later iOS might add them. Sometimes their additions are crap, like their implementation of closed captioning, which only works for a couple of sentences and then stops. Their keyboard scrubbing is inferior too, as are many other parts of the OS. iPhone does have some good things going for it, but they're far from innovators or industry leaders these days.
  
  Didn't say they were. But the pixel 9 undeniably looks more like an iPhone than previous pixels.
  Frankly, I haven't seen anything I would call innovation from any manufacturer in the smartphone industry in years. Just the occasional parlor trick. The industry is continuing its slow crawl towards more and more similar devices.
  And I'm writing this from a pixel 8, for whatever that's worth.
  
  How exactly has apple not been an industry leader? They are the industry leader.
- Yeah because Apple was the first. 🙄
  Apple has quite literally never invented anything, everything they do is copying, shut the hell up
Fuck Google.
- How daring
  
  How does "daring" factor in here?

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