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by microtonal 35 days ago
The Pixel A lineup has always been affordable. Heck, the 4a was even $349 at introduction. The currently start a little higher, but are often around 350 Euro halfway the cycle.
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gOS stops supporting a device when its EOL.

A cheaper 6a would be EOL next year.

They also came later vs 6/6Pro

Stops officially supporting - often still gets patches.

6a is a 2022 phone, 7a is $150 on Swappa.

Where are we going with this?

No idea you guys make up prices and devices when I made my choices years ago?

All I can give you is my reasoning for picking it. Not giving google my money is always a plus in my book.

I had no way to know it was years ago,

and I don’t consider buying used and flashing “giving Google my money”.

Although it definitely enables the market for Pixels, they definitely don’t make much (if any) money selling Pixels, due to they’re being cheap-yet-flagship devices.

It might even hurt Google for you to buy them and not capture all your data with their OS!

How are new pixels cheap?
Compare to comparable iPhone or Galaxy Phone hardware.