Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro released. Thoughts?

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Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro released. Thoughts? - tchncs

Google Pixel 8 (128GB): $699 / €799 / £699 Google Pixel 8 Pro (128GB): $999 / €1,099 / £999

I’m excited to see pixel grow but why are we accepting this storage bullshit? 128GB in 2023? Why do we tolerate this storage extortion. Hard drive space costs almost nothing.
You don’t have to accept it, just buy something else. That’s the beauty of Android. I’m using an Xperia 1 IV and really like it. The Mark V is better with heat and a few other things but not enough to switch right away. 512 GB internal, SD card slot, headphone jack… basically everything phone buyers complain about getting removed are all available in one package.
It’s a dark pattern and a trend. It has nothing to do with “accepting it”

Fine, I used a synonym instead of the exact word you used “tolerate”. The point is, the power to tolerate this or not is still in your hands. If we only talk and complain, but don’t actually reward with our business the companies who do what we say we want, then the future will absolutely be no on board storage, cloud connected, personal-data-harvesting everything.

So it kind of does have something to do with accepting (or not) these things.

Nah I don’t see any reason to tolerate shitty, greedy practice. I’m calling them out not discussing about practical viability.