According to a new report, Google’s cost for producing a PIxel 9 Pro is just over $400, which might be…
I thought one of the “laws” of consumer electronics was that retail price of a product has to be at least 5x the BOM cost. So for the Pixel 9 Pro to be profitable, there must be a heck of a lot of post-sale revenue coming in from advertising. Ugh.
What does a Pixel 9 Pro do that a $200 retail Moto G doesn’t?
What does a Pixel 9 Pro do that a $200 retail Moto G doesn’t?
it’s natively rootable
- camera sensors (larger and more expensive)
- screen (very high brightness)
- processor/SoC (faster, has 7 years of driver support)
- open source support (can build your own AOSP ROM or use Graphene, etc)
Emphasis on the support. I bought a moto phone (I think an E, not a G) that got 0 major software updates. I think it got a 0.0.1 path or something so minor you’d never notice.
Isn’t the pixel intended to serve as a model/benchmark Android phone?
That’s what the Nexus was.
I suspect for Google it’s about demonstrating what Android can do, so more about marketing than direct profit.
I think it depends on the price point, size of the market, and how much competition is in the market. If you’re selling 10 million of something you can probably get away with some slimmer margins than 1 million.
Uhh ummm uhhh it’s better because it does…AI! And we all love AI, right? That’s why they’re putting it in everything. They know us better than we know ourselves…
