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It was the very premium of premium phones that Samsung offered in that generation. In a rare color with maxed out storage (1tb) which I am sitting at 78% usage right now. It was a bit of a splurge, too.

Pixels are kind of a slightly cheaper phone compared to Samsungs and Apples, that's been part of the product angle from day one from Google. So even the big pixel phones i think are like 700-800 usd, and then if you get max storage could be 300 more maybe since they always overcharge for storage because they are allowed to not include sd card slots.

Which would bring a pixel to like maybe $1100.

It's absolutely diminishing returns, but if you want the big phone, you pay the big bucks. They don't have to price things like this, and people don't have to pay it. But even now as it stands, a lot of tech to me is wildly underdeveloped and shitty. I want to to be better, because I think tech is super cool (and again, power user, my personal desktop has 128gb ram and I very much use it).

We all have our hobbies and likes and things we spend our time and money on. Mine isn't clothing or food or cars or alcohol or drugs, it's tech (and music stuff).

Sidenote, I just checked, and Google has a folding pixel with 512gb memory that msrp goes for like 1900usd but is currently on "sale" for 1600usd. https://store.google.com/config/pixel_9_pro_fold

Edit: yeah, Samsung's folding phone maxed out is like 2200usd