I’d say the Nexus phones (pure Android) were way more a game changer than the Pixels.

Including cell calling?

Methinks y’all doth protest too much.

The improper testing has plenty of sources. They were trying to speed rush through testing and missed details.

The sexual harassment doesn’t have hard sources. It got tossed in there as an afterthought as everyone dog piled him for being popular and the botched testing. No idea if it was really true or not.

It’s not hardware on Android I want. I want pure Android on these phones. All these overlays and additional OS bits from these companies highlights why they aren’t good software companies.

Back in the day Microsoft cracked down on overlays like HP Personal Page. Some bitched about it, but it was absolutely necessary. Google needs to do something similar.

Affordable? LOL, no. Affordable doesn’t maximize shareholder value! Capitalism!

Those apps are already proven insecure, you might as well use SMS and take advantage of the interopabily.

Meh, they don’t exactly crow about where to find it in their other apps. They mentioned the “shop” in Google TV and mentioned YouTube, but didn’t say where. Not like they made a store in YouTube to make it obvious. They can’t be assed to be clear about it because they have so many different apps that have the functionality.

Just looked and you can’t access your purchases on a brand account. That’s causing issues. They may have announced it a while ago, but they didn’t think it through at all. This is looking more and more like the YouTube Music fiasco.

Google’s problem is they reward bringing new product to market, but they don’t reward steady stewardship or iteration to improve existing products. That’s why you see Google release multiple products that do the same thing.

This only highlights and strengthens my decision to never buy a Samsung phone. They so desperately want to go their own way but don’t quite have the guts.

And just when you have everything setup with USB-C, here comes the new connection standard, USB-D. Eliminating the audio jack is about planned obsolesce.