Google Under Fire After Influencers Were Asked to Prefer Pixel Phones

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8 points·mancerayder··7 comments

I don't get why this is controversial. Isnt sponsoring influencers like this pretty normal?

TFA identifies the error which seems to have led to a situation of irritated reviewers as well as "influencers" (freelance marketers):

> Team Pixel should have never been treated as a reviews program in the first place. It’s always been a marketing play for Google.

Asked? Told. This is what desperate looks like. Google needs to get out of hardware. They know what they make is uncompetitive. It never will be even if they get the handset right because absolutely nobody trusts them.

Their only chance is to give the hardware away in exchange for the spying

Pixels are great devices. I think stating this so matter of factly is a bit unbelievable.

Many of my close friends and myself that have used Android phones have sworn off the Pixel brand.

Personally I had issues with GPS and the speaker on my Gen 1 pixel.

We all seem to run into hardware faults right around the end of the warranty period and their value seems to drop like a rock on the second-hand market months after launch.

Just my anecdotes.

I owned several generations of Pixel. Nightmare. Half baked software. Sometimes would crash on first setup. Just a spaghetti mess which you can't afford with something so central to daily life as a phone. It was like some kind of academic software experiment. They literally couldn't pay me to use one today even as a second phone. I don't trust google.

I started on pixel 1 and now have a pixel 4a. My wife has been thru multiple pixels as well (3 and 7). We've had zero issues.

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