IDC's Francisco Jeronimo said at least the trend is good despite Google's relatively small sales of Pixel handsets. To know Google Pixel phone performance in 2017 is doubled. This is confirmed by data from Kantar Worldpanel, whose share of the U.S. handset market rose from 1.8% to 2.8%.
However, it seems Google has determined to become a hardware manufacturer, the recent acquisition of the HTC smart phone design team has fully demonstrated this point. Google hopes to leverage its world-class Pixel camera technology to create more competitive offerings by 2018 and beyond.