Google's new phone isn't really a threat to Apple's iPhone - yet
Getty Images/Andrew Burton
Apple shouldn't be too worried that the Pixel, which retails for $649, will immediately cut into its market share, though.
An early supply chain-based estimate from Digitimes, a Taiwanese trade publication, suggests that Google's Pixel could ship between 3-4 million phones in the second half of 2016.
By comparison, Apple sold 232 million iPhones during 2015, and is on pace to do about the same amount sales in 2016. Apple ships over 4 million iPhones per week.
Of course, nobody expected Google's Pixel to reach the scale of Apple's iPhone instantly. Apple has spent nearly a decade building its supply chain, retail operation, and brand so that it could sell that many phones.
It's just a reminder that Apple has quite the head start on Google in the hardware business.
- I'm an interior designer. Here are 10 things in your living room you should get rid of.
- A software engineer shares the résumé he's used since college that got him a $500,000 job at Meta — plus offers at TikTok and LinkedIn
- Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace
- Paneer snacks you can prepare in 30 minutes
- Markets crash: Investors' wealth erodes by ₹2.25 lakh crore
- Stay healthy and hydrated: 10 immunity-boosting fruit-based lemonades
- Here’s what you can do to recover after eating oily food
- AMD set to fuel growing demand for AI compute, says CTO