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as it turns out Google sells more than
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just Chromebooks who knew I mean all
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jokes aside Google's hardware divisions
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responsible for a lot more than
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Chromebooks and Chromebooks only make up
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a small percentage of that hardware in
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general the thing you've heard of
0:45
probably most and seen advertised most
0:47
are the pixel phones - the pixel pixel -
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and pixel three and Google's had to just
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come out and say look we're not selling
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a lot of these phones they're expensive
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and in general people to start buying
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them and so they've dropped two new
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phones the pixel three a and three Axl
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and while we're not going to start
1:03
reviewing phones at this point and we're
1:05
not going to all of a sudden introduced
1:07
phone reviews into our normal line of
1:10
videos we do want to talk about this
1:12
phone for just a few minutes because
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I've been using it for a couple of weeks
1:15
and I have some thoughts on how it will
1:17
impact hopefully impact Google's
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hardware decisions and how they go about
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making Chromebooks moving forward before
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started today as I said at the top we're
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not going to review this device and
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we're not going to get into all the
1:48
nitty-gritty specs and all that kind of
1:50
stuff but I do want to tell you a little
1:51
bit about using the device on a daily
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basis I've had it for a couple weeks and
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I've loved it honestly way more than I
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expected - I got it because I was just
2:01
curious and turned out I almost didn't
2:04
want to give it back and I'm still not
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sure what I'm gonna do I do know for me
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personally it makes no sense for me to
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move from my three XL over to this phone
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just because it's a lateral move
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financially and honestly it is a
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degradation in a couple spots I would
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lose waterproofing and the processors
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not as fast but all of those things
2:24
aside to be honest with you the
2:26
processor stuff never noticed it the
2:29
screen just as good the speakers I think
2:31
are a skosh better than the 3xl I enjoy
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the way that the audio sounds when I
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record video better the camera exactly
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as good as the 3xl so it didn't feel
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like that degradation and user
2:43
experience I simply enjoyed using it I
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don't know how else to say it other than
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I don't want to let go of this phone I
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there's a charm to it there's something
2:52
about it that is just enjoyable and I
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think if you're even thinking about
2:57
getting this phone I would 100% say go
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do it at 400 bucks for the three it's
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fantastic buy at 480 for this one that
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I've been using it's a fantastic Buy
3:05
it's a great phone not just for kids or
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people that don't know how to use phones
3:09
I think anybody that enjoys smart phones
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and enjoys pure Android and the
3:13
experience that a pixel brings you get
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the pixel experience with this thing and
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that's really really important as we get
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as I said at the top of the video Google
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makes lots more than just Chromebooks
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but one thing they've never done with
3:36
Chrome OS or Chromebook is make a device
3:38
that is a budget or mid-range Chromebook
3:43
they've had the Chromebook pixel and and
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the one that came out in 2015 and then
3:46
they had the pixel book and now they got
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the pixel slate and even when they put
3:49
the pixel C out which is not a Chrome
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device because kind of sort of meant to
3:53
be one it was expensive too and so
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you've got all these Hardware pieces and
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these larger computing form factors that
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Google has put out and they're great I
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still think the world of my pixel book
4:03
and I think the hardware is great on the
4:05
slate and I loved both Chromebook pixels
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but they've never been mid-range they've
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never been something that Joe Schmoe is
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gonna go grab off-the-shelf and think
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hey you know what I'll give it a try
4:16
they're expensive they're really
4:17
expensive for Chromebooks and so the
4:19
only users that are ever gonna think
4:21
about using them are people that are
4:22
just entrenched in Chrome OS and so
4:23
because of that the sales have always
4:25
just been kind of ok what would happen
4:28
if Google saw this because I think this
4:31
phone is gonna sell like crazy because
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the price is great and the experience is
4:34
great and reviews across the board have
4:36
been great it's gonna sell pretty well
4:38
it's in carriers as well what if Google
4:41
saw that and saw the effect that that
4:43
has on their pixel 3 sales and I'm
4:45
counting three three XL three a three a
4:47
XL all in one group if all of a sudden
4:49
pixel 3 sales go from this and jump way
4:51
up because of this device what might
4:54
that inform for making Chromebooks I
4:57
know that there's probably gonna be have
4:58
one other high-end Chromebook come out
5:00
this year and maybe next year even but
5:02
what if Google looked at it and said oh
5:03
huh yeah people don't like paying tons
5:05
of money for tech people like paying
5:07
small amounts of money for tech and if
5:09
they took that idea and they began
5:11
making Chromebooks that were more
5:13
mid-range they didn't have to have the
5:15
the highest end specs but they still had
5:17
that Google quality to them and that
5:20
stuff's hard to like pin down it's hard
5:21
to look at a device and say this is
5:23
exactly why this device is so fun to use
5:25
but the pixel book just continues to be
5:27
a great device because it's hardware but
5:31
it doesn't have the fastest processor
5:32
anymore and maybe it doesn't even have
5:34
the best screen on the market but
5:35
there's just something about the package
5:37
that they put together that makes it
5:38
awesome to use what if they could figure
5:40
out that the way they've done here with
5:43
same thing with a Chromebook where they
5:45
they kind of bring down some of the
5:46
hardware and cut out some of the things
5:48
they need to to make a mid-range
5:50
Chromebook made by Google that's Google
5:52
branded gives you the same level of
5:54
experience and feels like you're using a
5:56
Google made Chromebook and sold it for
5:58
five hundred bucks or four hundred bucks
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or even six hundred bucks what would
6:02
that do to the made by Google Hardware
6:05
in the Chrome OS division and I hope
6:07
maybe somebody's watching this maybe
6:08
somebody is gonna look at this and think
6:10
huh maybe we should do that but really I
6:12
hope it's informed by the sale of this
6:14
phone I'm hoping that as Google sees
6:16
that this thing takes off and it
6:18
increases their market share and and
6:19
increases the number of people that own
6:21
it they start thinking about what it
6:23
would look like to make a mid-range
6:24
Chromebook that lots and lots of people
6:26
would buy I think back to the Samsung
6:28
Chromebook that came out years and years
6:31
ago 2012 I think it was the series three
6:33
and they ran the commercials for it all
6:35
over the place and it was the Chromebook
6:37
for everyone it's a computer for
6:39
everyone everything was for everyone
6:41
it's this for everyone Google hasn't
6:44
made a Chromebook for everyone in a
6:46
while and I'm really really hoping it's
6:48
about time that they do so but guys
6:50
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