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I'm... not sure that I would take a random person* in a T-Mobile store at their word when they claimed that they were "actually working in the hardware division at Google."

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I recognize that I should've been more clear but the person who pulled me aside was a random customer waiting in line who pulled me aside when I told the T-Mobile guy that I was planning on getting a Pixel, which they didn't have in stock. I did ask a fair number of questions about what it was that he did to determine that it wasn't someone older who was just messing with me. Granted, this was some number of months ago, but if I recall correctly he was trying to figure out why people wanted Pixels because on his team, people would use iPhones because their family members used iPhones, or because it was easier from an enterprise security standpoint with BYOD. I'm not sure if I remember specifics beyond that.

It's kind of a post-hoc realization that I should've used his admission to me as a reason to second guess a purchase on a device which I've come to discover: has a stock messenger application that fails to sync message receipt times, that gets very hot to the touch, drops cell phone tower connections until rebooted. And, as the article we're replying to points out, had a lock screen bypass bug that wasn't fixed for months.

In the story above he says he wants to buy a pixel to the salesperson, but it is someone else that says they work at Google.

Thanks, I've updated "salesperson" to "person."

So basically, even sketchier.

No, I'm quite more likely to believe that a customer at T-Mobile is a googler than to believe that the salesman is.

Especially if this is a store in mountain view!

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