[brookst]

Consumer products are demand-driven. This is like saying my shrimp-flavored cola is failing because I don’t have distribution deals.

Pixel is great hardware, but Google has failed to generate enough demand for consumers to be going into stores and the n leaving because Pixel isn’t sold there. That’s what gets distribution in the long run.

[jeltz]

They are not even sold in a lot of the EU and they barely market the phones. Kinda hard for there to be consumer demand if you cannot even buy it.

[brookst]

This isn’t true at all. Many products have very high demand in markets they’re not available.

[londons_explore]

Pixel phones have lots of geoblocked features. For example, they lose most of their 5G/VoLTE/VoWifi abilities if you use a sim from a phone network in an unsupported country, even though other models of phone don't have that issue.

A bunch of other features are geoblocked in the EU, or geoblocked to the US and Canada only.

[brookst]

Sure, but my point is that 1) Pixel has low market share in markets it is available, and 2) there does not appear to be any clamoring for availability from the masses in other markets.

Pixel is a great product for tech enthusiasts. It may even be a good product for the mass market. But bemoaning the lack of sufficient distribution is totally missing the point.