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Loved my Nexus 5x until the high power CPU cores started failing causing instabilities. Loved my pixel 2 until the battery stopped holding a charge. Liked my 4a (it is literally a faster 2 that you can't squeeze to bring up google assistant (the squeeze was my fave feature)) until the April 2023 update that ruined the battery life. They never fixed it. Pixel 7 was suffering the same issues at the time. I made the decision to switch to a Samsung S23+ and not looking back.

Build quality of the Google flagships never have been the best, but they always have issues. I am getting too old to have time to fiddle with this stuff and just want something that works.

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I hear a small company called Apple is making a viable alternative.

Apple is by no means perfect when it comes to updating devices.

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+ota+update+breaks+phon...

There isn't a single manufacturer that consistently gets this right, only different shades of gray.

This is very true. Maybe it's just perception, but from the outside, it feels like Google plays the most fast and loose of the mainstream options. Samsung and Apple seem more trustworthy.

Yes, but in terms of:

> I am getting too old to have time to fiddle with this stuff and just want something that works.

I definitely find the iPhone great.

It _generally_ just works. If shit does break there's no fiddling... it's just broken. If it doesn't work the way you want there's no fiddling... suck it up or get a new phone.

I was going to say it's like an appliance and compare it to my toaster, but I would 100% end up at my kitchen table angrily disassembling my toaster if it failed to make me breakfast one morning.

I'm still on an older Nokia, it is 'just something that works'. It's limited enough that it isn't an distraction and it works very well as a phone.

At the scale Apple operates at, if there's a widespread issue with the iPhone, it will be known. And not just reported about on tech nerd sites, it'll be on major news stations because it's potentially affecting your dad and many people you know. That's why bendgate and antennagate were such famous incidents.

If Apple was having hardware and software defects at the rate of recent Pixel phones scaled to the iPhone's marketshare, it would be massive news.

Apple users aren't as picky about what their device should be doing, or achieving.

Half the time, they have no perception of, or perspective whatsoever on what's buggier than what they were previously using.

Samsung is quite reliable. I really like Dex and their overall multi-tasking capabilities

Too bad they pulled an Other OS with it.

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