Commentary on Google Pixel Fall Launch
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In this Cast | Commentary on Google Pixel Fall Launch
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Art Gelwicks, a productivity and collaboration consultant, blogger at theideapump.com, and host of the Being Productive podcast, CrossPlatform podcast, as well as ProductivityCast Podcast.
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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00
Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community, welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. And I was to bring up and we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 87. I've got that right this time, the Google Pixel for launch event, our commentary episode on that, of course, each week we review and discuss the productivity and technology news headlines of the week. But when these major events happen, and we've had three of them happen this week, we bring you these special commentary episodes to discuss you discuss with you, you know, what basically happened at those events. And today, of course, we brought onto the show, again, Art Gelwicks, to talk about what happened at the Google Pixel fall event, Art. Gelwicks is a productivity and collaboration consultant. He's a blogger at the idea pump calm, and he's the host of the being productive podcast. He joins gousto pinout as a co host of cross platform. And then of course, he joins us weekly on ProductivityCast. And so Anything But Idle art,
Art Gelwicks 1:00
Hey, guys, long time no see,
Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:06
we're spending Good, good amount of time together,
Art Gelwicks 1:08
they got to spread out these announcements better, they're killing us with this. I mean, there's so much stuff in one, I was not ready for this, all of this stuff that hit at one time. Not that I'm complaining, I love having all kinds of cool toys to look at. But Good grief.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:23
So this was the pixel fall event on October 19. And of course, at this event, the keynote and the product announcements really were for the long awaited, but mostly known about made by Google smartphones, the pixel six and the six Pro. And so what did you think about the event? Kind of, you know, generally? And what was the What did you feel like, you know, was good about the event bad about the event. And then we could talk about some of the particulars regarding the pixel six, the six pro and of course, the announcement of pixel pass, which is Google's first kind of subscription service for the pixel phones specifically.
Art Gelwicks 2:05
Yeah, the event itself, I thought was, if you look at it in the context of all the events that happened, I'd say it was one of the better ones that's happened recently, they did a very good job of laying out exactly what they wanted to cover and how they wanted to cover it. They didn't lose sight of their messaging during the presentation itself. They made it very inviting, why they felt the need to actually do it in the Google Store was, I don't know, that kind of alluded me a little bit. But you could tell from the beginning, that they were all in on the main parts of these new phones, the tensor chip,