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It has. $500 in 2026 doesn’t go as far as $500 in 2008.
I wouldn’t buy a pixel again because of the quality control issues but that’s beside the point.
brah, phones haven't changed significantly in the past decade. competent devices should (and do) cost like $100. chinese phones cost that much, made at the same place where these things are made. that's enough for all the parts and a healthy profit and that thing can run the same software as the $500 one or the $1000 one.
those things nowadays ain't nice-to-have, they're must-have and poor people shouldn't be excluded from safely participating in the global communication sphere. gos could at any time ship gos-lite that isn't based on a hardware-backed TPM that's exclusive to pixels and I'd shut the fuck up. that thing would cover the 99% of us that ain't a buncha jason bournes with nation-states after us.
So what you’re now saying is phones have gotten better and cheaper.