Comment on Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months

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• marmo7ade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have been a lifelong googler. Owned every Nexus phone and Pixel until the Pixel 6, when I got Pixel pass. They finally made me mad enough to switch to an iphone. I dislike Apple very much, but I can rely on their services still being around 2 years after they launch.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But why iPhone?

    I went to search for what the best phones are. Now I’m on OnePlus 8T for the past three years and the device still kicks most phones asses for what was a good price. I’ll use this for another two years I guess and then I’ll look at what is the best phone again. It won’t be iPhone, that’s for sure

    Apple products are overpriced like hell, and simply not yours to do with what you want.

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    • DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably because it’s not 2010 and both platforms are matured to the point of being able to do almost the exact same things for the majority of users, so it’s just down to small personal preferences.

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      • fireshaper@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is so true now. I used to go back and forth between iPhone and Pixel phones, and then a few years ago decided it’s just nicer with an iPhone. I know I’ll get regular updates and I’ll get OS updates way longer than any Android phone will. The OSes are pretty much the same now, little tweaks here and there between the two and they are nearly identical to how they work. And iPhone just has more QOL features over Android.

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      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        iPhone is still WAY more expensive, more prone to failure, harder and more expensive to repair, and you can’t do the same with the device as on an android. So as long as you are a rich non-power user with little technical knowledge and don’t care about the money, then I guess iPhones (and apple in general) are okay, I guess.

        That also directly describes most Apple users

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      • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think this is mostly right. There used to be big differences and now its very much just a preference. Except when price is taken into account.

        Apple no longer have an excuse for the high price of their phones because they are, as you said, basically the same as androids and in some cases just not as powerful.

        Androids have the advantage of competing with itself. There are many different makes and models of android all fighting for space so new features or improvements happen faster than they do for iphones. Apple have lost what made iphones unique and therefore “worth it” in many consumers opinions.

        If they are now basically an android they should cost the same as an equivalently specced android.

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    • Acid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because the phones just fucking work

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      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you mean to say that android phones don’t work?

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  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just buy a different android phone you buffoon

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    • CoolBeance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’s probably talking about his dissatisfaction with Google’s entire Android platform on top of Pixel Pass

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  • Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, there are android phones from 2013 that still work…no need to advertise for apple.

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  • Fades@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    lifelong googled

    lol

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