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>>alphab+(OP)
The Pixel has like 1% of smartphone market and Google has been making their down devices for 10 years now! I have two questions:

1. Why hasn’t Google pulled the plug and thrown in the white towel yet? People have voted with their wallets and chosen Samsung and Apple.

2. Why is the Pixel devices getting such a massive news coverage? Other smartphone ORM’s with similar market share doesn’t get the same treatment.

>>retskr+Zf
1. it's not a vote, it's a market. 2. Pixel devices set the standard for every other android phones. the coverage is legit.

>>Darky+Hh
How do pixels set the standard any differenty then samsungs?

>>Xeamek+rb1
Samsungs are non-standard by default. They take the AOSP experience which Pixel fully embraces then they hack in cute fonts, water drop overlays, and replace the default tooling that comes with Android to build their samsung experience.

Pixel drives and creates the innovation like cut-out display support, notification APIs that support multi-media control for instance across multiple apps, sound multi-plexing between apps, how calls interact with multimedia apps, foldable display support, app switching, fingerprint unlock support, the android API, etc.

Samsung takes that, twists it into their own.

In that essence, Pixel is the standard experience that Android is meant to be whereas Samsung is a customized experience built on the backbone of Android and in some ways in opposition to Android Open Source Project & Pixel Launcher's ideals.

Samsung android phones are the Ubuntu whereas Pixel is Google's Debian.