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Google Pixel 2

Hardware — Ask more of your phone
Hardwarehardwareest. 2018
● Stable
Category standing real
58th pctl · Hardware
18.6
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#1,759
Category rank
of 5,243 · real
46th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
12%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 7.5 → 19.6 across 37 readings (+12.1). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
46
Signal (category) real
58
Profile maturity real
46
Tag breadth real
12
Network position sparse
100
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
12%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 20% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Google Pixel 2 sits in the 46th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #1,759 of 5,243 in Hardware. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 12% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 5 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is roughly flat.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Samsung Galaxy S8hardwarecurated21.41%
OnePlus 5hardwarecurated18.62%
Android Nougat Rolling out in Lenovo K6 Power and K6 Notehardwaresimilar15.768%
Moto X (2nd gen)hardwaresimilar15.794%
LG X4 Plushardwaresimilar15.795%
Xiaomi Mi A2hardwaresimilar15.795%
Samsung Galaxy Note 8hardwaresimilar21.464%
Galaxy S7hardwaresimilar18.682%

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelhardware
Liveness tierquiet
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

1 disclosed funding round on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →