Recently, Google seems more than ever striving to become similar to Apple. The company intends to produce top-end devices with unique hardware components, improve and optimize the operating system. Even the desire to improve the privacy of user data is reminiscent of Apple's policy. However, until that reach for the Cupertino players, Google does not work.
For a year Google sells as many smartphones as Apple - for a week
The line of smartphones Pixel - a clear confirmation of these changes in the ideology of the company. In the future, after a number of improvements, they have all chances to compete with the iPhone, but so far there are too many flaws in the "pixels". And this is especially noticeable by how far this line is from the title of commercial success. Google takes a whole year to sell as much Pixel as Apple sells the iPhone weekly. 
This information came from the analytical agency IDC. In the report it is reported that last year it was sold 3.9 million Google Pixel. At the same time, the total sales of iPhones exceeded 215 million. In the fourth quarter of the year on which the Christmas holidays fell, Apple sold 77.3 million iPhones - an average of 849,450 devices per day. Elementary mathematics says that in just 4.6 days of this period, Apple managed to sell as much as Google for the whole year. If you take the average figures for the year, rather than the fourth quarter, this period increases to 6.6 days - which is still within one week.
Note that this fall should be released Pixel 3 - full screen a la the iPhone X. Of course, now available a lot of conditionally frameless Android-smartphones, but the leakage of data on the Android P show that it will add support for the interface a la jubilee iPhone - which is practically ensures that it will look like the third pixel. It is possible that this and active work on its own software and hardware components will allow Google to improve smartphone sales in 2018.