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It’s amazing how underwhelming google’s product launch announcements are compared to apple’s. Not even trying to light up a platform holy war here, just saying that if you’re going through so much work as to create new generations of hardware, seems like something more than a press release is a good idea.


Mate, there was an entire event for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q90v9FLXi1E


I'm sure you'd agree that there is a clear excitement gap with their Watch / WearOS and the recent Apple Watch Ultra release.

I assume people are just done with Google branded hardware. It felt like a premium maker in the early Nexus days, but Stadia felt like the last gasp.

This device costs more than Samsung's and Apple's related products, and relies on older internals (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/the-pixel-watch-is-o...).

How did they review that, look at the number, and justify that internally without some weird politics and a purposeful head-in-the-sand attitude?


Pixels have:

- the best camera for photos

- the best Android experience on the market

- no Samsung/Xiaomi bloatwate

- 5 years of software support

- great AI features

And many other things. Also specs haven't mattered for a long time now.

The only thing that android needs to improve in performance is Web browser JS performance, because its a joke compared to IOS.


Given Google's severe corporate ADHD, who's willing to bet that Google will still be making watches or tablets in 5 years? Why would any third party develop apps for these platforms, given Google's record?


Considering the size and budgets available, that's a stunningly awful and boring video.

edit: realised it's not a "published by Google" video and assume it's been cut down, which makes a lot of the editing oddness make more sense.


Why do product announcements matter? Like I know many people like Apple's traditionally but they're just ads.


Apple’s announcements are all pre-recorded theatrics now. They are attention grabbing, over the top, and sensationalized to feel special.

Props to Google for actually doing their event live, cutting to the chase, and not scaring people into feeling like they will die if they don’t buy product X or Y




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