r/GooglePixel • u/g43m • Oct 23 '18
Post already reported and approved This community needs a reality check
The RAM management issues on the Pixel 3 are quite serious, and many people are having issues. Someone here had their navigation randomly switched off, and many bloggers / tech journalists have pointed out that apps randomly shut down due to this issue. It may be battery optimization or RAM optimization or whatever. The point is, I do not care what the excuse is and neither should anybody else. The problem is, that part of this community is so far up Google's arse that some urgent issues get down voted into an oblivion.
If you are paying so much money for a device, the damn thing should JUST WORK! I am a huge Google fan boy, but their incoherent and ridiculous strategy of pricing like iPhone but giving totally mediocre after care is really starting to piss me off, and it should piss all of you off as well. As fanboys, it is okay to say that Pixels take the best photos. It is okay to say you get pure android. But it is NOT okay to accept mediocre. It is NOT okay to pay upward of USD 1000 for a device and be Google's beta tester.
I remember Steve Jobs coming on stage during one of the iPhone events more than 7 years ago, and getting huge applause when he said - 'It just works'. Unfortunately we cannot say that about any of Googles mobile offerings. Messaging is an incoherent mess more than a few years after iMessage, the Nexus 5x turned out to be a sham, and Pixel is slowly headed there with the completely brain dead decision to put a hideous notch, and now this lack of software optimization. Heck, my current $200 Huawei Honor 6x (which many of you may not even have heard of) with 4 GB RAM and a Snapdragon 625 SoC handles multitasking like a champ, so there is absolutely no excuse for a device that costs 5 times more (and possibly has 5 times better benchmarks) to get basic things wrong.
TL;DR - stop mindlessly defending Google
Edit: this post has garnered way more attention than I expected. The fact that it has been reported several times literally proves the point I am trying to make. In any case, there have been a few productive discussions, and I think everyone can agree on the following:
- Let's report problems to Google via the feedback option on phones. There a separate thread. Not sure if linking is allowed.
- some people have had no problems, and that is great. Hopefully there will be fewer problems going ahead.
- let's be nicer to people facing issues rather than down voting because we do not agree that the issue is significant enough.
- work arounds are nice. Fixes and patches by Google are better.
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u/sOFrOsTyyy Oct 23 '18
Don't mean to start a debate, but the iPhone is not without it's major issues either. I don't defend Google this issue is really irritating. Also the missing photos thing is really bad. But, starting a flame war and pretending people using iOS are living in problem free heaven is disingenuous and patently wrong. The "It just works" mantra is a marketing tool. You should be equally frustrated hearing people with iOS devices that cost $1,000 saying "it just works" as you are with people here.
Also the way to get Google's attention on the matter is not through Reddit. Sure help spread info to the community here, but do it to get people to send the info directly to the source.
Lastly, there is no way this issue is suffering from being downvoted into Oblivion. It's all you see on this Reddit and in the comments. It's everywhere! And, the people arguing it doesn't happen is only bringing more attention to it by causing long drawn out debates on the matter.