Pixel 3 phones arent selling and its probably Verizons fault CNET

Google says it is sold fewer Pixel telephones 12 months over year due to fierce phone competition on the excessive stop, but that probably isn't always the whole tale. There's a great hazard that the company's settlement to make Verizon the Pixel's specific US provider performs a position. 

On Monday, Ruth Porat, CFO of Google parent company Alphabet, explained declining Pixel sales due in part to "heavy promotional activity industry-wide" and "recent pressures in the premium smartphone market." Even with deep discounts, people just aren't buying Pixel phones, despite best-in-class camera performance and glowing recommendations from CNET and other outlets. 

The Pixel 3 become CNET's top Android phone of2019. So why haven't buyers been snapping it up like hotcakes? 

There might be some reasons for this. First, instances are difficult across the board. The smartphone marketplace has been slowing down. Apple just introduced that it sold fewer iPhones than it did a year ago. People are maintaining their phones longer among improvements, and charges are skyrocketing year over year. New telephones are entering the marketplace, like T-Mobile's "top class low priced" OnePlus 6T, and shoppers can be protecting their collective breath to peer how foldable telephones and 5G networks pan out in 2019. (Hint: not too super so far.)

But for the Pixel phones especially, Verizon's one of a kind backing is probably almost as plenty of a quandary in getting the phrase out as it's miles a gain. Verizon is the United States' largest carrier, which offers the Pixel the benefit of being discovered while buyers stroll into a shop or peruse the service's internet site. 

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But the Pixel is also plagued by means of a strong misperception that Verizon is the exceptional seller, length. In truth, you could buy the Pixel 3 telephones via Google's on line store for use with any US carrier, as well as Google's own hybrid Fi network. 

Limiting carrier exposure surely doesn't help get the word out, and you would think that Google would have as much clout as Apple and Samsung in getting its phones on any wireless company it chooses.

Google's mostly-direct-to-consumer-except-for-Verizon sales model clearly isn't working, and I'm not surprised. The vast majority of people -- we're talking about well into 90% -- buy their handset from a carrier, not from a phone-maker, even one with as much pull as Google. If your carrier doesn't have a particular phone, why not just get another pretty good alternative instead?

The Pixel 3's camera is so, so appropriate.

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The rumored Google Pixel 3a is said to come to T-Mobile in addition to Verizon, which, if true, will put the Pixel in front of more buyers. (T-Mobile is likewise trying to mute Verizon's thunder with its #GetOutofTheRed campaign.) 

Leaving an exclusivity contract with AT&T for its very first iPhone helped create the boom that helped make Apple's smartphone one of the most iconic, sought-after phones in the world. Google can only hope that expanding into T-Mobile would do the same.

For Google's sake, I hope the Pixel's rumored carrier parade won't stop there.

When approached for comment, Verizon would only state, ""We don't comment on future contracts nor would we comment on sales." Google did not immediately responded to our request.

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