Wow, this article is so fanboyish it's laughable. Some of my favorite parts:
"Perhaps even more remarkably, the latest "Phone by Google" lacks support for SD Cards and removable batteries and lacks the extra RAM and processing power needed to run Android"
Hmmm, last time I checked, iPhones don't have SD cards either...Who cares, let's just rant at Google for not having it. Processing power? I'm pretty sure the Note 8 is winning in real-world speed tests. Seems like the 835 is handling Android just fine (unless you want to run geekbench all day).
"the company's LG-built Pixel 2 XL demands a premium price, starting at $849 for the 64-gigabyte version. iPhone 8 Plus with the same storage is $799."
Lets ignore the fact that it's using OLED screens while the 8+ still uses cheap LCD's. Let's also ignore the fact the screen is bigger with a better screen to body ratio along with dual front firing speakers. Oh, and that 8+ design has been around for 4 years now. I don't know if the other realizes it or not, but the XL2 is primarily competing with the iPhone X.
"having a phone that looks like a cheaper copy of last year's iPhone."
LOL. RLY?
"third-party testing has shown that Android software, particularly games, routinely use up
four times the RAM as the same software running on iOS."
In this comparison, they are using a Samsung S6 for the android device. Current Samsung devices are much better in terms of utilizing RAM and also have a much more optimized Touchwiz. Hey, who cares right? Pure android must be the same as a poorly optimized 2 year old touchwiz...
"Yet this year, Google thought it was more important to raise the price of its phone than to add more "
RAM, or overhaul the incredibly sloppy architecture of its Android OS"
Ugh, this is exactly what Android 8.0 is meant to do. It's also the OS that the Pixel's will ship with... Does this guy live under an Apple rock?
"In this bizarro world of starry-eyed Google-fandom, it appears that nobody cares about snappy performance, premium phone prices, inadequate hardware specs or having a phone that looks like a cheaper copy of last year's iPhone."
The Pixel even on last years snapdragon was VERY smooth and snappy... I'm also pretty sure that the XL2 looks much more premium than a 4 year old design employed by the iPhone 8. Not to mentioned even my Note 8 is much snappier and has significantly fewer frame drops than my 7+ with iOS 11.
" making it possible to fake Portrait mode for a still shot, but failing to replicate what dual lenses can do in video using iOS 11's new Depth API."
So again, you are going to compare features in Apple's newest iOS, but be completely oblivious that android 8.0 exists and will be whats on the new Pixels?
"Pixel 2 phones supply a USB-C connector, which remains new and more difficult to obtain."
Yet at the same time Apple uses a PROPRIETARY connector, but I guess that's ok... I mean, how dare Google choose to use a new and NON proprietary connector... RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE. Honestly, I'm curious if this guy bashed Apple for doing this on the newest MBP's when there were even fewer accesories around... I bet he didn't.
"Google has now been building and designing phones for a decade without ever creating a significant installed base or making any money from its vanity hardware busywork."
No, Google hasn't been building hardware for a decade. This is only the 2nd year of a completely Google designed phone. Saying Nexus devices are pure Google devices just because Google had some input on them, is like saying the Motorola Rockr (remember that thing) is a pure apple device since apple had input on it. Stupid...
Christ, I have a feeling this guy has never touched a Pixel or simply used Wikipedia articles last updated a few years ago as his research and sources...