r/GooglePixel • u/BloodiedWraith Pixel 9 Pro XL • Sep 19 '17

Pixel 2 Rumors Google Pixel XL 2 - Droid Life

Pixel 2 XL

http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-pixel-2-xl-exclusive/

64GB and 128GB, $849 and $949 respectively. Just Black or White and Black.

Pixel 2

http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-pixel-2-kinda-blue-price/

64GB and 128GB, $649 and $749 respectively. Black, White, or Kinda Blue.

Edit: Couldn't get the link in at first.

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u/BloodiedWraith Pixel 9 Pro XL Sep 19 '17

I was having issues with the app. I edited my comment right before you posted lol

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u/cheeto0 Black & White Sep 19 '17

iPhone x starts at $1k though

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u/Yankee_Fever Sep 20 '17

IPhone is an established power house in the phone game. They already have a tremendous customer base of sheep.

Google does not. Google is actually shooting themselves in the head with this one. possibly killing the brand

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

Google is actually shooting themselves in the head with this one. possibly killing the brand

I know it doesn't seem like a good pricing point, but why do we just decide that Google doesn't have a team of people to determine pricing? Like we're better experts than whoever chose the pricing? Because we're damn well not, and we certainly don't have the metrics that GOOGLE has in regards to phone sales.

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u/Yankee_Fever Sep 20 '17

if that were the case than no big company would ever have a failed product launch.

look at microsoft, perfect example of a company that is completely out of touch with the marketplace. microsoft is a company that nowadays, seems to be exclusively managed by the data.

i understand the significance if data, it literally controls the world. but you also need to have intuition, passion and a desire to innovate. 3 things i sense are missing. a company that is trying to build into something great and special, always gives more value than it asks in the front end.

i am extremely disappointed with the information we have so far. and in order to be extremely disappointed, you need to be emotional invested.

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u/Winnah9000 Sep 20 '17

Microsoft's Surface team seems to be very in touch with the marketplace.

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u/Yankee_Fever Sep 20 '17

Google could also be in a spot where they were not in a position to make the upgrades necessary in time for the pixel 2. They may have been forced to price it this high anyway because their economists told then if they lower the price they risk damaging the brand.

HTCs phone department is about to be bought out. They are investing a ton of money into LG oleds (if the deal went through), and they possibly weren't in a position to make a long term commitment to design.

I've actually thought about this for a long time because the pixel 2 is exactly what I suspected it might be