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mlmonkey • yesterday at 5:04 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

What is Pixel's marketshare, for developed markets? Despite a decade+ of competing, have they made any significant dent in iPhone's share?


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Danox • today at 1:53 AM

Virtually nothing. Their processor is at least seven years behind the times. It’s not profitable. It’s just a Me-too loss leader to service the ad machine. 3D models and data-centers are built on top of that.

vineyardmike • yesterday at 6:27 PM

They’re something like 5% domestically, a little less if you include all budget devices, a little more if you only look at “premium” phones in its price category.

It’s likely made no impact on iphone sales, but I don’t think it’s a reasonable goal. Android and iPhone users don’t meaningfully switch, the goal would be to gain Android customers, and it seems, drive market direction. 5% of all US phones, which is 10% of android phones, doesn’t seem terrible considering they’re certainly spending a lot less than Samsung et al in R&D

drnick1 • yesterday at 5:53 PM

Pixels are good, if you replace Google's OS by Graphene that is.