Google's Pixel smartphones struggle to click in world's fastest growing smartphone market

Despite Google’s aggressive push to lure the Indian market into purchasing its Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, the company has failed to impress the price conscious country.

Google’s first branded smartphones went on sale in India late August, the same month they were globally unveiled. This was a stark deviation from the general norm that sees companies take weeks — and sometimes months — in bringing their top smartphones to India. 

But it appears Google’s inclination to India didn’t return same response. The company has so far sold little less than 50,000 units of Google Pixel and Pixel XL in India, according to Tarun Pathak, senior analyst at marketing research firm Counterpoint.  Read more...