Google’s biggest Pixel 2 problem will be making enough of them

A year ago, you’d have been forgiven for dismissing Google’s new Pixel phones as a superficial rebranding of the company’s “hobby” Nexus line. Most observers believed Google was still dabbling in the hardware business, even with the new “Made by Google” branding introduced alongside the Pixel. But what’s happened since then is that Google bought the HTC team that built the Pixel and Pixel XL, retrospectively making those truly and entirely “P