For the Pixel to be iPhone priced and also for it to be selling your data off the back porch, I want it to have at least as good of performance as the iPhone it’s price matched to. Being that much weaker and selling your data means it should cost a lot less. If your personal data, and their savings on chips are worth that much that they’re doing both, that should mean cost savings passed on to the consumer.
Pixel owners are being robbed twice. You might say it’s because you can use GrapheneOS, but only a very small number of Pixel users actually do.
If you don’t care about gaming, which is the most demanding thing our phones are asked to do, the Pixel could be a good deal for all around phone use. The other commenter is talking about Genshin Impact. Fuck Genshin Impact. My iPhone 16 Pro Max can theoretically play Cyberpunk 2077. And by theoretically, I mean the exact same chip powers the MacBook Neo, and that can run Cyberpunk 2077. That said, the A18 Pro SoC clocks somewhere between M1 and M2 on the Mac side, and A18 Pro is locked in with 8GB of RAM — it cannot support more. I have two M2 Macs (a Pro Mac mini, and a base MacBook Air), and while both of them can run Cyberpunk 2077… there’s like no pedestrians and next to no cars. And the framerate is ass and I have 16GB of RAM and more GPU cores (especially on the M2 Pro). So what a chip can do vs how it looks doing it… I’m just thankful I have the game on Xbox.
Honestly I have yet to see a game play better on a phone than a computer or console. The exception is games like Subway Surfers that were made for mobile, but most of those are gacha trash and ad ridden with no way to just buy the game outright and enjoy it.
But as for Pixel and Android… If you care about performance, I don’t see why you wouldn’t just get a base Galaxy S26. It’s cheaper than the Pixel and more powerful. And TouchWiz OneUI is really nice these days. Shit, I thought it was nice on my S3 back in the day — loved that phone. Whatever version I have on my S10 — I also have an Android phone, pocket computers are cool and I like variety — is nice. Even 7 years later, that phone still rocks (AND it has a card reader AND a headphone jack). It’ll be a sad day when I trade up — I also like the size. I do not think I’ll find an Android phone at 5.8", 1080p or higher, SD card slot, with a headphone jack. I’ll give up the jack but I want the card slot (ideally, if it’s a faster/better card format). Android or Android fork, I don’t really care, I’m gonna customise TF out of it anyway.
For the Pixel to be iPhone priced and also for it to be selling your data off the back porch, I want it to have at least as good of performance as the iPhone it’s price matched to. Being that much weaker and selling your data means it should cost a lot less. If your personal data, and their savings on chips are worth that much that they’re doing both, that should mean cost savings passed on to the consumer.
Pixel owners are being robbed twice. You might say it’s because you can use GrapheneOS, but only a very small number of Pixel users actually do.
If you don’t care about gaming, which is the most demanding thing our phones are asked to do, the Pixel could be a good deal for all around phone use. The other commenter is talking about Genshin Impact. Fuck Genshin Impact. My iPhone 16 Pro Max can theoretically play Cyberpunk 2077. And by theoretically, I mean the exact same chip powers the MacBook Neo, and that can run Cyberpunk 2077. That said, the A18 Pro SoC clocks somewhere between M1 and M2 on the Mac side, and A18 Pro is locked in with 8GB of RAM — it cannot support more. I have two M2 Macs (a Pro Mac mini, and a base MacBook Air), and while both of them can run Cyberpunk 2077… there’s like no pedestrians and next to no cars. And the framerate is ass and I have 16GB of RAM and more GPU cores (especially on the M2 Pro). So what a chip can do vs how it looks doing it… I’m just thankful I have the game on Xbox.
Honestly I have yet to see a game play better on a phone than a computer or console. The exception is games like Subway Surfers that were made for mobile, but most of those are gacha trash and ad ridden with no way to just buy the game outright and enjoy it.
But as for Pixel and Android… If you care about performance, I don’t see why you wouldn’t just get a base Galaxy S26. It’s cheaper than the Pixel and more powerful. And
TouchWizOneUI is really nice these days. Shit, I thought it was nice on my S3 back in the day — loved that phone. Whatever version I have on my S10 — I also have an Android phone, pocket computers are cool and I like variety — is nice. Even 7 years later, that phone still rocks (AND it has a card reader AND a headphone jack). It’ll be a sad day when I trade up — I also like the size. I do not think I’ll find an Android phone at 5.8", 1080p or higher, SD card slot, with a headphone jack. I’ll give up the jack but I want the card slot (ideally, if it’s a faster/better card format). Android or Android fork, I don’t really care, I’m gonna customise TF out of it anyway.