Google will want the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro to be best-sellers, but these phones have another role to play beyond market share.
  • extended update service to 7 years
  • pushing Material UI consistency
  • Tensor G3 chip for AI & machine learning performed locally on device
  • rikonium@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m being a non-article-reading heathen here but of those three bullets I don’t think any is new to the smartphone industry - albeit Apple is cagey with support timelines (and probably slows down on what’s fixed versus the current iOS version) but the 5s technically got a iOS 12 patch this year.