[wraptile]

Not only obtaining but if you ever need warranty you're done. Just last week I went to a Samsung center and had my fold 6 fixed in 30 minutes, and these centers are everywhere around the world. Same thing with Apple, yet a 4.5 trillion dollar company can't ship and maintain a phone globally. It's so unserious.

[elAhmo]

They definitely can, they just don't want to.

[whizzter]

And that's the unserious part, they really don't want anything to do with consumers despite making consumer products (gmail, Android, etc.) so you're always at the mercy of their automatic systems.

[rcbdev]

Google has historically always sucked at being a product company. Despite this, they're quite successful at it.

[w0wt1p]

But when there was a battery/overheat issue with pixel 6a, I must say Google handled the fix / compensation surprisingly well. My sample size just being me, but very smooth process and compensation processed rapidly.

[JBiserkov]

As the old joke goes: Microsoft is a software company, Apple is a hardware company, Google is an ads company.

[colordrops]

Isn't that just the truth based on revenue streams?

[matheusmoreira]

Yeah. Could be difficult even if one is willing to forgo the warranty. My city has local repair services, they easily repaired my old Samsung phone. Servicing Pixels could be difficult even for them.

[d3Xt3r]

Out of curiosity, what was wrong with your Fold 6?

[wraptile]

The inner screen built-in protector was peeling in the middle. It was out of warranty, but Samsung charged me 15$ which is very reasonable. The inner screen looks brand-new now, and I guess that's the benefit of these soft foldable screens - you can refresh the entire thing very easily.