Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone

Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by throw10920 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:23PM (#30075733)

Not a single one of my friends or family (n=50) has asked me for phone recommendations in the past 4 years (and I can only recall two recommendation requests ever).

It's certainly not common enough that you see mentions about it on HN or Reddit - and yet, you see mentions of adjacent things like requests for tech support. So, it's clearly not very common.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by zrm on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:49PM (#30076157)

People vent about getting asked to do free tech support because it's time consuming unpaid labor.

The premise of asking for a recommendation is that the tech has already done the research (e.g. for themselves) and can provide a two word answer off the top of their head. There is little reason to complain about this on a message board or even bother to remember when it happens. But it does.

You even admit to doing it yourself. How many swings of a $400 purchase from one vendor to another does it take per capita to be enough to care about?

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by Bud on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:06PM (#30076440)

I'd say it's very common. I get requests on a nearly weekly basis. From both friends and family. Some have asked me several times.

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