First of all, congrats on actually shipping. You've already accomplished more than 99% of people.
Second of all, you're actually charging money for your product. That's awesome. When just one of those users converts to a paid plan you'll already be making more money than any of those hyped social startups with big launches that never turn a dollar profit.
>Apple killed specs because no one care about them and that hardware should be judged on its beauty and slickness and the UX
And you know why this works? Because Apple puts sufficiently high specs in their machines so the user doesn't have to think about it, because it doesn't stall or perform tasks slowly.
Besides, this is HN. It's an objective discussion, not a marketing one.
>beauty and slickness and the UX of its software which is where the Pixel does indeed shine
I can't speak for the Pixel here, but OSX is the best OS I've ever used so I would be surprised to see a browser-only OS match that.
As for hardware, the Air is by far the best-designed laptop I've ever seen. I know people are praising the Pixel in this regard but to me it just looks like another ThinkPad. And as far that grey bar jutting out? Come on.
>As for the 32 GB, the Pixel comes with 1TB of google drive
I knew this would be brought up but I didn't want to bash Drive in my last reply. But here we go...
Somebody shared a single .png imagine with me this morning on Drive. I went into the Drive folder they shared it in, it's empty. I reload the web interface, folder is still empty. I try to search for the file name, it's not there. I reload the page again, still can't see the file in the folder, type the file name in the search box, and it finally appears in the search bar and I can open it. When I'm done I go back out, and it still doesn't appear in the folder it's in. The only way I can access this file is now to memorize the file name and search every time.
Not somewhere I'm willing to put hundreds of GBs of data just yet.
And something that's not brought up enough: data privacy. Google employees can view hundreds of GBs of your personal files, photos, documents, etc. on Drive.
With an SSD you know exactly who can access your files, and you can still choose to back up to a cloud service that actually offers encryption if you so wish (which I do).
Drive will most likely never offer encryption because Google makes its money from knowing as much about you as possible.
Second of all, you're actually charging money for your product. That's awesome. When just one of those users converts to a paid plan you'll already be making more money than any of those hyped social startups with big launches that never turn a dollar profit.
Kudos.