Google might have failed to keep up that preliminary momentum. Apparently, some AT&T shops have stopped promoting Pixel telephones because of their unpopularity. Not solely does AT&T not promote many Pixel telephones, however a number of them find yourself being returned.
Went into an AT&T retailer in the present day to have a look at Google Pixel telephones to seek out out that they now not have Pixel telephones on show and are not promoting them.
Sxcred, Reddit consumer, March 2025
I used to be in an in a AT&T retailer a couple of yr in the past and the man mentioned that they do not actually promote that many pixels and a number of what they promote are returned.
Hurlamania, Reddit consumer, March 2025
Not everybody agrees that AT&T has dropped Pixel telephones although. The corporate could also be rearranging its show in preparation for the Pixel 9a, creating the impression that the provider has stopped promoting Pixel telephones altogether.
It is also doable that solely the areas the place Pixel telephones aren’t in style have stopped promoting them and different shops nonetheless carry them.
Now we have it on good authority from Wave7 Analysis that AT&T nonetheless very a lot sells Pixel telephones.
In response to the corporations’s newest report, Pixel’s general share dropped throughout provider shops in February. Nevertheless, its share elevated barely from 3 % in January to three.6 % in February at AT&T. In distinction, Apple’s share was 69 %, whereas Samsung’s was 24 %.
Pixel share slipped barely within the survey. Share got here in at 4% at T-Cell and AT&T, however was 6% at Verizon.
Wave7 Analysis’s February 2025 smartphone report
Which means there’s no less than some reality to the remark that Pixel telephones aren’t a precedence for a lot of AT&T shops. The information may replicate the general gross sales quantity, so regardless that the Pixel 9 is among the finest telephones round, it is nonetheless nowhere close to as in style as iPhones and Galaxies.