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7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8 series
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It looks like hardware improvement is shifting to AI capabilities. If so, in 7 years pixel 8 will be hardly interesting for anyone from the target audience.
Who actually gives a crap about AI in real life?
Seriously, what possible actual, real life use case does the average user (even Pixel user) have? Image processing, maybe, but that's nothing groundbreaking.
Every single demo of anything AI related I've seen is nothing more than a nice demo. Impressive, but still just a demo.
Think about, what are you actually doing with your phone that's so much different from what you did 5 or 10 years ago? Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I use literally 80% of the very same apps. Do these need ai on my phone? Not really.
I don't think you look at it from the right way.
AI is already in a lot of people's lifes and they don't even notice it's that.
From your keyboard word correction and prediction, to power management, smart image edition and categorising and more.
And some things are done locally on your phone.
The increase in AI capability on phones can allow more things to be done locally, and maybe even get something like a local LLM to predict what you want to type. (LLM = large language model, like chatgpt, bard, Llama and others, they can be used for more than just answering your questions).