There is no date of arrival for the motorola yet. I only read beginning of 2027. That could also be delayed. And if it is a phone with underwhelming specs, I wouldn’t want to buy it either. But buying a pixel now means not buying a motorola soon.

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    24 days ago

    you’re still supporting google if you still do this via resale value.

    and that’s why i’m waiting for motorola

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      23 days ago

      How many GOS users are out there, you think? They have zero impact on the resale value.

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        5 days ago

        They’re the small potatoes along for the ride – a majority will stick w android and I don’t want to add to the clusterfuck anymore than I already have.

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        5 days ago

        The same way it helps any brand that people think it’s premium – via reale prices that support the artificial belief that the perceived value is higher than its intrinsic one.

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          That doesn’t seem to be true in practice.

          People on the secondhand market seem to be more drawn to other “premium” brands and to features that are less important for a smartphone than security (e.g. camera zoom).

          Most places I’ve looked, secondhand Pixels are priced similarly to or lower than other brands’ secondhand “flagship” phones of similar age - even though Pixels have a killer feature the others lack: security hardware to run GrapheneOS.