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Yes, this is very annoying. Personally I have a Pixel 2(which I might consider swapping for 5 later this year, depending on what they throw in it) but this is a

Yes, this is very annoying. Personally I have a Pixel 2(which I might consider swapping for 5 later this year, depending on what they throw in it) but this is a pure joke. I got mine about 2 months before the Pixel 3 was released and even then, almost a year after it's official launch, it was nowhere to be found in most countries. My phone before that just gave up and I happened to be on a holiday in Poland and by pure coincidence the Pixel 2 was available in one of the large retailers. Mind you, it wasn't available in any of the shops they had in Krakow(second largest city) so they shipped it from Warsaw. I can understand it not being available in small countries like Bulgaria in my case. There are one or two shops where you can find them for almost double the price which is a joke to say the least. And yes, in all these years I've only seen 2 or 3 other people rocking Pixels. But come on.... Poland? They have a population of almost 40 million... And this is their flagship hardware product, I'm not talking about things which are much more trivial, like buds or whatever.

72deluxe 7y ago
I could be wrong but I get the feeling they are very USA-centric.
- axegon_ 7y ago
  Oh, they absolutely are. And it would be fine if they were clear about it(which they aren't). You know, "this is our first market, we are currently in the process of negotiating/developing the feature for other regions, stay tuned" is perfectly understandable for me. I'm aware many people would freak out about something like that but as far as their hardware products, they are not aimed at the marketing-manager-with-a-macbook-pro-on-the-front-table-at-Starbucks types. In 99.999% of all cases, those people wouldn't care about a Pixel or it's existence. And in reality the only people who would make a deal out of it. I'm 100% certain that the average Pixel user would be perfectly fine with it. The Pixels are absolutely brilliant products and I am in love with mine, even if it's almost 2 years old now. But imagine my reaction when I opened Google play and I saw the text "This app is incompatible with all of your devices." regarding Android pay... On a brand new Pixel? A text which is still there mind you. Their support was very open about it and they did say it's a regional restriction and nothing to do with the phone itself but still... This is just one example but there are plenty of others on the list.
penetrarthur 7y ago
I had to wait a month for a Pixel 2 XL here in Latvia couple of years ago. Some small shop only ordered 1-2 every month. 99.9% of people don't even know what Pixel is.

72deluxe 7y ago

I could be wrong but I get the feeling they are very USA-centric.

axegon_ 7y ago
Oh, they absolutely are. And it would be fine if they were clear about it(which they aren't). You know, "this is our first market, we are currently in the process of negotiating/developing the feature for other regions, stay tuned" is perfectly understandable for me. I'm aware many people would freak out about something like that but as far as their hardware products, they are not aimed at the marketing-manager-with-a-macbook-pro-on-the-front-table-at-Starbucks types. In 99.999% of all cases, those people wouldn't care about a Pixel or it's existence. And in reality the only people who would make a deal out of it. I'm 100% certain that the average Pixel user would be perfectly fine with it. The Pixels are absolutely brilliant products and I am in love with mine, even if it's almost 2 years old now. But imagine my reaction when I opened Google play and I saw the text "This app is incompatible with all of your devices." regarding Android pay... On a brand new Pixel? A text which is still there mind you. Their support was very open about it and they did say it's a regional restriction and nothing to do with the phone itself but still... This is just one example but there are plenty of others on the list.

penetrarthur 7y ago

I had to wait a month for a Pixel 2 XL here in Latvia couple of years ago. Some small shop only ordered 1-2 every month. 99.9% of people don't even know what Pixel is.