4 ms·

I definitely have one on my screen, but I really have to look for it. Doesn't really bother me much.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Still, pointy internal components pushing on the display is a major design-manufacturing oversight that's absent from their more experienced competitors in the industry, Samsung and Apple. It's something that if you don't catch in the CAD-prototyping phase, you should catch in the early industrialization ramp-up phase as you do quality control of early devices comming off the assembly lines. You do quality control, right? Right? Let's face it, Google just sucks at making quality hardware in general, they just don't care as much about all the nitty gritty details and challenges that product industrialization throws at you, and just seem to just "wing it" on the HW side, with every latest pixel model suffering from various issues all the time. I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG focus on the hardware so they could focus on the software. Anyone remember the budget friendly Nexus 5 and what a good phone that was? Now when Pixel has flagship prices to match their competitors, such mistakes are less excusable. If you jump in the ring with Ali, you'd better be able to box.
- murderfs 3y ago
  > I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG The Pixel team is largely comprised of ex-HTC employees that came over when HTC ragequit the mobile phone business. They started out leading the 3a/4a, but after the Pixel 4, they got put in charge of all of the phones.
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    But then why do latest Pixel phones suck so much when HTC made some of the best Androids out there?
    - pie420 3y ago
      typical google mismanagement
- pathartl 3y ago
  I'm not going to say that this isn't disappointing or isn't a real problem, but to say Google sucks at making hardware is a bit unfair, as every device has design issues. If this is the major hardware issue this generation, then they're getting _much_ better. I've suffered tons of hardware issues over the years with mobile devices (the worst probably being the iPhone 7 with failing batteries and broken radios) and reliability on my Pixel phones has been pretty darn good over the years. I started with the Pixel 5, then the Pixel 6, now the 8 Pro.

Still, pointy internal components pushing on the display is a major design-manufacturing oversight that's absent from their more experienced competitors in the industry, Samsung and Apple. It's something that if you don't catch in the CAD-prototyping phase, you should catch in the early industrialization ramp-up phase as you do quality control of early devices comming off the assembly lines. You do quality control, right? Right? Let's face it, Google just sucks at making quality hardware in general, they just don't care as much about all the nitty gritty details and challenges that product industrialization throws at you, and just seem to just "wing it" on the HW side, with every latest pixel model suffering from various issues all the time. I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG focus on the hardware so they could focus on the software. Anyone remember the budget friendly Nexus 5 and what a good phone that was? Now when Pixel has flagship prices to match their competitors, such mistakes are less excusable. If you jump in the ring with Ali, you'd better be able to box.

murderfs 3y ago
> I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG The Pixel team is largely comprised of ex-HTC employees that came over when HTC ragequit the mobile phone business. They started out leading the 3a/4a, but after the Pixel 4, they got put in charge of all of the phones.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  But then why do latest Pixel phones suck so much when HTC made some of the best Androids out there?
  - pie420 3y ago
    typical google mismanagement
pathartl 3y ago
I'm not going to say that this isn't disappointing or isn't a real problem, but to say Google sucks at making hardware is a bit unfair, as every device has design issues. If this is the major hardware issue this generation, then they're getting _much_ better. I've suffered tons of hardware issues over the years with mobile devices (the worst probably being the iPhone 7 with failing batteries and broken radios) and reliability on my Pixel phones has been pretty darn good over the years. I started with the Pixel 5, then the Pixel 6, now the 8 Pro.