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I am looking at getting the Nexus 6 and its threads like this that make me think twice about leaving the iPhone. I prefer android, I love my nexus 7 but issues like this are the reason I left android to get the iPhone 5 from a Droid X2. Now, I thought if getting a Nexus google would support it more because my main issue with the Droid was that it was never updated...but now I am concerned.

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Long term Android user here, currently w/ a Nexus 4. I've had very few issues with my Android phones. I don't have these issues with 5.0.1.

You act as if Apple hasn't had issues with iPhones either. Remember iOS 8 breaking a lot of phones?

The good news at least, is that the Nexus 6 seems unaffected by whatever this is (and may in fact be at the core of this). Nexus 6 shipped with 5.0.1 and I'm not aware of any Nexus 6 owners seeing this problem (when running stock 5.0.1). It's mostly the pre-5.0 android phones that are having this problem when upgraded to 5.0.1, so my guess would be that it either doesn't happen with a stock (from scratch, not upgrade) install of 5.0.1, or else it's some difference between the hardware/firmware in Nexus 6, and every other Android phone.

There are around 7 replies in that thread specifying they have a Nexus 6 and see the issue.

I have one, but have not noticed it. Though I always use it with a BT earpiece, so that might account for the difference?

Long time Android user here! (G2, Nexus One, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4).

After several years of hoping Android would get its shit together, I switched to a 5S and got my wife an iPhone 6.

I have minor quibbles: No Google Calendar App. Google service push notifications seem a tad slower on the iPhone. But the experience is just so much better.

I am by no means a fan boi. I am a fan (as an infrastructure engineer with real problems to solve) of my phone just working, without factory resets, reboots, etc. The iPhone, to my chagrin, does exactly that.

Try Sunrise [1], which can use Google Calendar as backend and has push for updates.

[1] https://sunrise.am

Thank you!

Android is great but God help you if something breaks. Both of my Nexus phones stopped functioning after a year, and I know through very painful experience that after that point product support all but disappears. Presumably all of Google's good engineers move on to the next generation of products as soon as the last generation ships. In any case the pattern is pretty clear. If support is important to you, this is not a company you do business with.

Given the complexity of the devices, I suspect any modern phone will come with a number of issues. For iPhones it is almost traditional that one serious issue will be found shortly after launch (like antennagate a ka "you are holding it wrong"). Curiously, the majority of users seems to get by just fine, so maybe some issues are not as big as they seem.

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