A fair critique?

I was reading through this article and it made me think, am I one of those blind fans?

We (jokingly) excuse apple fans for being sheeple and continuing to support Apple despite some of their decisions.

But when you step back and we start to sweep around the Google house we begin to see some of the dirt we grew blind to. It's the old saying that you seem to be able to spot all the dirty spots in someone else's house but miss the dirty spots in your own house.

There are areas that if we were to be honest, Apple handles much better than Google. For one, you are able to purchase their phones. Yeah on release day you may get backed up and have to wait a few days to a week, but other than that it's fairly easy to get one. Where as Google still struggles with stocking Pixel/Nexus phones despite their demand being less than that of the iPhone or Galaxy.

The other issue that I have not ran into, but heard about, involved phone exchanges. Thankfully I personally hadn't had to deal with that. But that very issue back in 2009 was what caused me to switch from the iPhone to the Droid. But I'll be fair and say that apple have more brick and mortar stores as well as the ability to go back to either the carrier or best buy (Apple users correct me if I am wrong).

Still, I personally love the Google brand and have praised their over the phone customer service on several occasions. I plan on buying the pixel 2 but I do see issues that Google needs to work on if they want to truly compete with Apple and Samsung. The question is do they truly care to make those changes or are they putting on a front to keep the nexus fans coming back willing to pay the premium price they are now demanding for their pixel line compared to their nexus line?


Source: Stuck Pixel: How Google is dropping the ball with its "consumer" phone strategy (opinion)

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After all the talk of never going to open one I now have one in hand. Big bezel and all.

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I can explain, I needed.... wait the word need probably shouldn't be used here. I wanted a cheap phone to play with P. Wait someone is probably gonna question why I am paying to play with urine.

No matter how I respond it goes South. So my friend I am bowing out.

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Yeah I got it cheap off swappa and I wanted it to play with P for my articles. I didn't want to use my daily driver to test the software and my Nexus 6p wasn't going to get to beta testing.

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