[Prestidigitweeze]

I'm hoping that no one will buy the Pixel line for the simple reason there's an obscene lack of internal storage. Google's cresting the wave once ridden by MS and Apple. At this moment, what other company would dare short the user to this degree?

Google wants to strong-arm people into using the Cloud, in part because they want to condition consumers to rent server space or submit to ad streams to make use of the storage they'd otherwise own.

That didn't work with the 8GB Nexus 7. It worked with the Nexus 4 partly because storage expectations on a smartphone tend to be lower.

Giving an expensive laptop 32/64GB of storage is simply offensive. Google's people know exactly what they're pushing for and against at this point. That's why they need to see massive push-back.

It would have been nice to be given time to focus on Google Glass (as it were).