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Opinion post by
Bogdan Petrovan
The universe is conspiring in helping Google achieve success.
The sixth phone in the Pixel family will launch later this month, and I think that, despite the bleak circumstances, it will be Google’s most successful release yet.
Of course, there’s no guarantee that the Pixel 4a will be a homerun. Google has showed us, repeatedly, that just because it can launch great products it doesn’t mean it will. Messaging apps come to mind…
But the Pixel 4a has a lot going on for it. The leaks point to a refinement of the same recipe that Google used last year with the Pixel 3a, our Editors’ Choice for best phone of 2019.
Read: Google Pixel 4a: Everything we know so far
More importantly, timing may play out in Google’s favor this time around.
For one, everyone has been increasing prices. Just as it was lamenting that people were holding on to phones for “too long,” the industry somehow decided that the best solution was to get greedy.
Mainstream phones that cost $1,400? It’s ludicrous and nobody’s even bothering to deny it anymore, except maybe for some bi