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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • From the article:

    Let’s first start by getting the facts out of the way — erasing objects won’t be perfect. In this comparison, we aren’t using the more advanced AI editing tools (Magic Editor for Google phones and Generative Edit for Samsung phones), just the basic object erasers. These tools work best on smaller objects rather than people right next to you or larger objects.

    Yeah, to be fair, the naming isn’t great and I can see why people get confused by it. Magic Edit is not Magic Eraser. Magic Edit uses GenAI and gives you multiple options to choose from, while Magic Eraser is not based on GenAI and will only give you the result and no options to choose from.















  • Isn’t longer software support actually something that might decrease hardware sales, rather than increase them?

    Apple already has a track record of supporting their old phones for 5+ years, yet they still make loads of money every year on iPhone sales. So while it may seem to lead to lower hardware sales in the long run, I don’t think it necessarily means lower profit.

    It might have benefits for google, if more phones are consistently running the newest version.

    Good point.

    Do you see a future where Google makes Tensor chips available on other phones? It would probably be inevitable if the Pixel line goes in the graveyard, but for now, I don’t really know. Might piss off chip designers like Qualcomm and Mediatek except maybe Samsung.
    I could see Tensor be the next evolution in Samsung Exynos chips since Tensor is derived from Exynos, so the first phones outside of Google to use their chips may be Samsung phones if it ever comes true.


  • Microsoft and the Surface line is not a great comparison imo, since their hardware specs aren’t exactly unique, and every feature Windows has on Surface is the exact same on other brand laptops; while Pixel devices have Android features exclusive to them and not on any other Android phones.

    If Google wants to sell Android/Google services and not just Pixel, wouldn’t it be better to trickle down more features to mainline Android? Currently, the only previously Pixel-exclusive feature that is now available on any Google One subscription (that I know of) is Magic Eraser. Plus, Google now developing their own SoC and promising 7 years of software support for their hardware, means that they probably do care about hardware. (And we all know where Google products end up if they don’t care enough about it)
    Though admittedly I’m not a business analyzer, and I still need to sit on this question a bit to conclude my thoughts (problems include how Google would be able to put Pixel features into the hands of other phone manufacturers to improve Android). Appreciate the answer anyways.


  • For the past few months if people were to say the P8 leaks were from Google to drive up hype, I would have believed them. But at this point, I just convinced that Google is just plain incompetent in keeping products under cover.
    P8 and P8P are on preorder now, and Google would very much want all the hype and leaks to point to their upcoming higher-priced products to drive up preorder sales, and not a lower-priced product that would not be coming out yet in months, and may or may not be competing with the base model P8 for its value after the review embargo for the P8 drops. Putting out leaks intentionally for the P8a is just stupid at this point and time imo. Can anyone convince me why this would be a good idea?