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would you wait for the Grapheneos-Motorola phone or buy a new pixel now? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    How does resale value “support Google”?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    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.

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