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by elAhmo 42 days ago
They definitely can, they just don't want to.
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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.
Google has historically always sucked at being a product company. Despite this, they're quite successful at it.
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.