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throwaway836282672 t1_iu52xvc wrote

Reply to comment by b0w3n in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144

For me, it's the customer experience. The phones themselves are great, but the experience behind them is lacking.

  1. I had a Pixel 3a XL that had OLED burn-in from the factory, and it was an absolute pain to get handled from Google (whom I bought directly from - but my Google account was still affiliated in Canada, despite living and working in California at the time... nightmare support) and....

  2. then the replacement Pixel 3a XL was a refurbished one (despite me buying brand new), and the digitizer died after 90 days. The screen replacement from Google wasn't covered because they claimed a micro-crack in the display killing the digitizer... for their refurbished phone. However, I had a positive experience with that phone, until it died from flooding during a natural disaster (not Google's fault).

  3. So I bought a refurbished Pixel 4a to replace it. The screen had the micro-cracks in the display that killed my last phone's digitizer so I (tried) to return it. It was a hassle to handle that again, because of Google's authorized retailer Best Buy. Compounded with the emergency... Eventually I gave up dealing with Google's headache, and accepted this until the phone screen cracked. The quoted repair price exceeded the cost of a new Pixel 5a...

  4. So I bought a new 5a with the old 4a as a health monitor of intranet utilities with the cellular service to alert engineers of downtime. The 5a is great, until Android 13 came out... Now so many crashes of Spotify and I get warnings that my phone is "too hot" so features have been disabled.

Google can do great. I think they're working on it. But I'm done. I just want my phone to work - no more troubleshooting, no more dealing with support... I'm staying with my (used) S21 Ultra. No more Google.

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AREssshhhk t1_iu5yol7 wrote

Sounds like you need an iPhone

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No-Nefariousness681 t1_iu65y5a wrote

Why would he want to use a phone that can't even install apps outside the appstore without jailbreaking it or other workarounds.

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AREssshhhk t1_iu68mfw wrote

My iPhone has an app for everything. There’s multiple apps for everything. I do calls, texts, internet, gps, Bluetooth, banking, email, delivery, work, pictures, videos, voice recording, flawlessly on my iPhone with the best security. And the phone is supported for 7 years at least

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No-Nefariousness681 t1_iu6n6tv wrote

And if you ever need to do anything outside of what apple considers acceptable you won't be able to. Remember when they banned parler? Will they ban Twitter next? Who knows.

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AREssshhhk t1_iu6nybk wrote

There is literally nothing I need to do on a phone that Apple will ban

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No-Nefariousness681 t1_iu6x5ju wrote

For now. Maybe one day meat will be banned and apple devices will block access to all ip addresses of underground meat sellers.

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AREssshhhk t1_iu6yb79 wrote

Yah if that happens, I’m goin team pixel the next day

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