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by dangus 145 days ago
I feel like most devices have bugs affecting a tiny subset of users and that it’s not usually a reason to choose or not choose a particular device.

From what I can tell following links on your article, this issue hasn’t been reported on after the Pixel 7, so someone buying a Pixel 10 today probably has no reason to have that as a purchase consideration.
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thebruce87m 145 days ago
I only posted an older hacker news link to show even people in this community have been affected. There are plenty of recent examples.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/this-wild-bug-is-still-plagu...

> I had this problem when trying to call 999 (the UK equivalent of 911) about a year ago.

> Fortunately I managed to free myself from the situation I was in by breaking (crushing) my finger.

Ouch!

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1oeiqop/pixel_...

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dangus 145 days ago
And you can do a search for Samsung and get a similar story: https://www.phonearena.com/news/galaxy-s24-failed-to-connect...

Like I said, not to excuse them, but these issues tend to affect an incredibly small amount of people. If you have a double digit number of users on Reddit complaining for a phone that represents 7% of all US smartphone sales, that’s not a widespread bug as a percentage of userbase.

Google currently sells more than half of the smartphone volume of Samsung in the US.

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thebruce87m 145 days ago
I don’t know why you want to downplay this issue. Google should be held accountable for this. It affects multiple users over multiple models and has caused real world harm.

Imagine it was Apple. Now apply the same outrage.

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dangus 145 days ago
I’d be saying the same thing. Apple sells tens of millions of phones per year and in this hypothetical scenario a double digit number of Reddit users couldn’t call 911.
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thebruce87m 145 days ago
This is obviously a big recurring issue which is statistically significant given the number of times that a user might call emergency services in their entire lifetime.

If the reason you want to dismiss it is because you have a pixel then you don’t have to convince me that it’s safe - you need to convince yourself.

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