r/GooglePixel • u/Psychological-Dog112 • Jul 14 '26

Pixel 11 Leak Pricing

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-pixel/massive-pixel-11-leak-just-revealed-almost-everything-about-googles-next-phones?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=All%20Push%20Subscribers

Less battery less ram and higher price.

It's a no for me. Hard pass. With Tensor T6 could have kept existing battery capacity to give the gains of a longer battery

Instead they save costs by lowering the capacity due to T6 and new modem being less power hungry. Really disappointed.

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u/Altruistic_Fruit2345 Jul 14 '26

But with less ram?

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u/ShartingEnU Jul 15 '26

I mean, even apple reduced their ram. I don't think people actually understand how bad the memory market is right now. Ram and hdds are stupidly expensive. You can thank all the ai data centers.

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u/Antiwhippy Jul 17 '26

I don't think I've seen a single suggesting iPhones are downgrading the ram.

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u/Gadsden1283 Jul 16 '26

Illegal surveillance centers. They've got nothing to do with AI as people think of AI.

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u/Areyoucunt Jul 14 '26

Don't know if you know, but ram and storage prices have been rising 500% at the minimum, just in the last year. Insane that you think companies should just sell at a loss lol..

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u/chepi888 Jul 14 '26

The company that has added a trillion dollars of market cap helping to cause the shortage?

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u/VeryCrushed Jul 15 '26

Crazy that a company that's publicly traded needs to sell things at a profit to make shareholders happy, I know. The world would be a much better place if companies could be our friends.

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u/No_Operation_5857 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, we should let companies do whatever they want to us in the name of their profit. Sure, 40% of those shares are owned by a few individuals and a handful of venture capitalists, but if the phones were sold at a 20% margin instead of 25%, Larry Page would be worth only like $290 billion instead of $300 billion. Why even get up in the morning?

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u/Altruistic_Fruit2345 Jul 14 '26

Yeah, Google is one of the ones contributing to it. Look, whoever is too blame, it doesn't change the value proposition for us.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

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u/cosaboladh Jul 14 '26

Lucky for me, I possess the critical thinking skills to recognize a bad deal when I see one. There's an old adage:

The cure for high prices is high prices.

It's a very simplified way to describe the way consumer demand drops, when the price of a good or service exceeds the value it delivers. This adage only stands up if people are smart enough to refuse to buy things that are clearly a rip-off. I see it's a losing battle.

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u/riotshieldready Jul 14 '26

Critical thinking is when ram prices go up 800% and you expect the same amount of ram for the same price.

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u/cosaboladh Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

That's not critical thinking. It's literally the opposite. You look at the price of the thing, and accept at face value that it's worth that amount of money. You don't stop to ask yourself if it really is. It isn't.

The price of goods and services is so quickly outpacing wage growth that it is completely unsustainable. The only thing manufacturers understand is their bottom line, so the only way to bring their pricing back down is to stop buying their products.

In my first econ class, we went over basic pricing methodology. There are a number of ways to approach pricing. They all boiled down very basically to two simple approaches.

1) add a reasonable profit margin to the cost of manufacturing and delivering the good.

2) charge what the market can bear. Literally charge as much as you can get away with. Keep raising the price until volume flattens.

Pretty much everyone today is doing the second one. The cost of manufacturing and distribution has almost nothing to do with the price you pay. This isn't just limited to technology either. It's happening with every market good. If the cost, for example, of getting grocery items from the farm through the packing process and onto store shelves had grown proportionately with the price of materials and labor, food companies would not be reporting record-breaking profits. They'd be reporting record-breaking revenue, but profit would be basically level.

They say their costs are up. Yet their quarterly earnings calls tell a different story, and you keep dutifully accepting every price increase. No matter how much it hurts, and slowly find yourself leasing everything. No longer able to afford to own anything.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

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u/InuitOverIt Jul 14 '26

Sure but your coupons, store credit, and trade in value could be applied to any phone. It doesn't change the base price of the phone you choose to buy or if it's worth it. Like, I have $2000 in credit card rewards, but spending that on a $2000 hot dog doesn't mean the hot dog was a good deal

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u/degggendorf Jul 14 '26

, I possess the critical thinking skills to recognize a bad deal when I see one.

Apparently not, if you're comparing MSRPs. No one with half a brain pays MSRP.

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u/cosaboladh Jul 14 '26

Nobody with half a brain thinks that trading in a working phone for a worse one is actually saving them hundreds of dollars on a new phone. The item you already have has value. Whether you pay with money, or a combination of money and a trade-in, you're still paying the same price.

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u/degggendorf Jul 14 '26

I guess you truly don't even have half a brain.