[tayo42]

If that's real, that is insane. Why buy a pixel?

You have to go out of your way to develop this feature too? It's not like there is anything country specific about connecting to wifi. People had a meetings discussing this and thought it was a good idea and some developer actually coded this.

[vel0city]

> It's not like there is anything country specific about connecting to wifi.

Yes there is. Each country has a lot of different laws and certifications necessary to operate radio equipment in the country.

> Why buy a pixel?

The odds of me going to Sri Lanka or pretty much any country affected by this is practically zero. Why would I base my purchase decision on something that's got like a 0.001% chance of ever affecting me instead of the myriad of other things that'll affect me every day?

[somerandomqaguy]

They still have a fairly clean Android. Samsung's still have Bixby and the Samsung store, and their firmware I find to be aggravating, as Samsung phones will install carrier specific apps without any option to remove them.

And a used Pixel can be had rather inexpensively due steep depreciation of Android phones.

[opan]

I've had good luck with used OnePlus devices running LineageOS. Affordable with good specs and unlockable bootloader.

[Reubend]

I've heard that Pixel phone have good security. With that said, there seems to be a lot of issues cropping up lately (like the 911 fiasco) which make me a bit skeptical of the value proposition.

[aaomidi]

iPhones now have the option of ADP, which allows for end to end encrypted iCloud storage. They also have lockdown mode to prevent even more vectors of attack.

Not sure good security is really a winning argument here.