Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

Android is just awful in terms of reliability

I find it hard to believe anyone working for Google on Android actually uses an Android phone as their personal device

I suffered all of: phone reboots 50% of the time using the camera, assistant won't answer sometimes, phone calls lock up the phone, alarm clock randomly doesn't work, it just goes on and on

I had the original Android phone with Android 1.0 and had bought every 2nd or 3rd nexus/pixel phone

now even I've switched to iOS

(and in the process of switching my entire family too)

About 3/4 use Android, but very few have the courage to run recent builds.

It's been a frustration point up the ladder, because they feel the ~same as you: why are they the only ones filing bugs?

But it's not that. It's decayed internal culture. There's other stuff around the margins they could change*, but, the rot is deep and unlikely to be fixed.

Too focused on...non-business objectives...to be effective. Too crucial to risk reforming. And it's very unlikely they hear about it up the ladder. And that's before the morale decline of "even when you smile and nod and sing along with the antics, you can be let go at any point by a 2 AM email"

* tl;dr: make it dead simple to get a phone. Line managers were always a bit squirrely about expensing. It's a non-starter post late 2021, and there were never ever enough DVTs/EVTs for them to be meaningful. Establish "everyone is on Pixel next year's - 2", and have the VP send an org-wide email saying individuals can expense as needed.

The fact that they have the ability to roll this out to a handful of users, all of whose devices stopped working, and to detect that and not proceed with the rollout is considered success, by them.

Don't run Google's Android. I've been on Lineage OS for years now and it's awesomely stable.