The Google Pixel Is Too Dumb and Ugly to Replace Your iPhone

gizmodo.com

12 points·okket··5 comments

How about you go fuck yourself, your pixel and your iphone? jesus. What is up with all this gizmo competitions for gadgets that are BARELY an incremental improvement on something that has existed for a decade now?! This fanboy bullcrap is really rendering an entire industry into nothing but hype-driven clusterfuck that benefits only those who sell these devices while we, the consumers, get the same re-packaged trash for double the price each year...

Come back to me when you have a phone that can do something new and useful!

As I often tell people when talking about mobile devices: we're not there yet. Not from a hardware point of view, not from a software one. We're not even close. Smartphones still have a long way to go. Battery life sucks, software sucks, updates suck. Not to say they aren't great devices, but they still suck big time.

Makers are beating around the bush because they can't innovate anymore, and make you pay top dollar for 64/128 GB of memory. I will hold onto my Nexus 5 (not an Android fanboy, it just happened to be the one device that fit the bill) till the day it chokes, because it was just about the only phone worth the money. 700€+ for any device is a completely ridiculous price for what it can offer today.

Sounds like the author was expecting a bit to much from the assistant software that comes with the phone and judged the entire phone based on that.

The article was mostly a rant about software.

This is not HN quality IMO, and I'm newish here.

Gizmodo's quality was never great but recently it got worse. That's not the kind of title you'd expect from a review from a serious tech news site.

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