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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by BikiniPrince on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:09AM (#38949675)
Yet everyone I know that owned a pixel despises it.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by tauntz on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:14AM (#38949721)
I've owned 3 pixel phones and have loved all of them. Wife has owned 4 different ones and they have been all perfect, no complaints.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by afsag on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:14AM (#38949714)
I've owned several Nexus and Pixel phones and they universally sucked. Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Pixel 2. I think that's all of them. I sent the last one to be fixed under warranty and they basically ignored me for six months (which I spent with no phone) until I threatened to get consumer protection from my country involved.

Yeah yeah, why did I keep buying them? I have no idea. I guess I assumed the rest of Android phones sucked more.

Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by Pufferbo on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:16AM (#38949732)
After what they did the the Nexus 6P, I jumped ship to Apple.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by antonp on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:15AM (#38949723)
I've owned 3 phones starting with nexus iirc. Looking forward to getting a refresh when current one gives out.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by __alexs on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:10AM (#38949681)
I've owned 3 generations of Pixels and they've all been great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by DeathArrow on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:14AM (#38949715)
Maybe the parent doesn't know you?
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by __alexs on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:18AM (#38950237)
Do you ever really know anyone?
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by sergiotapia on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:52AM (#38951561)
Count me as one anecdote that I love 'em! Best cameras I've ever used, paired with Google Photos means my wife is a happy camper and I get to look like a wizard fixing photos easily right on my phone. I can also install any .apk I want (hint: free youtube premium), why would I ever use a much more expensive, worse product like the iphone?
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by dekhn on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:16PM (#38955246)
I've had very good experiences with all my Pixels. Only phone that was better was a high-end Samsung ($1000) and I sold that and replaced it with a cheap pixel.

(I've had various android phones going back to the T-Mobile G1).

Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by wobbly_bush on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:48PM (#38958827)
I used to own a pixel phone and loved it. What made me move was the data collection, and to some extent lack of security updates on older models. Feature wise, I still like Android over iOS.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by red-iron-pine on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:04PM (#38959054)
if it didn't spaz out while installing LineageOS on it, I'd still be using my Pixel 2 XL. it was probably struggling with some hardware failures (I dropped it a lot...) and wouldn't boot after.

Pixel 6s were on sale and I got one of those, no regrets. I am not enthusiastic about Google as a company, and I may consider an iPhone for my next cell, but I've been satisfied with the Pixel line so far.

Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by int_19h on Friday January 12, 2024 @06:04AM (#38966620)
I owned several Nexus phones as well as Pixel phones. I'd say that the Pixels were pretty decent; my main annoyance was with the fact that Google deliberately disabled some of the hardware features in that line-up to push their own proprietary solutions - most notably, there's no video output over USB-C nor Miracast, so that your only option is Chromecast.