///M5

What was neutered about it?

Understand you. Also integration into automation systems is way better.

On my way home. Spending 2 weeks in Europe in a month is "fun". In particular when it is over 2 trips. Have to come back in Jan again too.

Sitting at a Syrian restaurant in Hanover. LOVE this place. I never eat at the same place in Europe and was here a year ago. Got a 5 star review from me on Google which is Uber rare

Everyplace I have visited has the old interface running on Android 10 as they don't want to scare their users. Super stupid imo as it took 10 min and I would never go back.

Complete integration to windows without installing any software to slow it down. Ok, it may need chrome but that is by far the best browser IMO so I would have it installed anyway. It very well may work in ie or Firefox but I haven't tried

Mail shows up on my desktop just like an Outlook alert. All same. Google assistant makes Siri look mentally challenged. I can't live without it. I do a ton of handsfree shit.

Perhaps is probably right.

You use gestures on the iphone, only way it works I thought. ie, if you have no home/apple button you are using gestures. The Android implementation of it is superior IMO in every way...but of course unless you are on Android 10 you don't have that.

Considering that there are 8 to 1 Android phones to Apple that seems like Apple had 2x as many service calls...

Had Sling, went to Hulu when Sling dropped Fox sports. Have to have the Loons & Wild games.

Anything. Android isn't limited. That being said you can't cast without a chromecast receiver on a Pixel. Just like Apple requires an Apple TV. That pisses me off. TV has a cast system built in, Roku does, Amazon does but the Pixel locks it out forcing you into their environment. That being said, when you do have a Chromecast puck it is uber smooth and super easy to voice activate which doesn't work so well on stock Android. ie, I can cast music to many different locations either sync'd or not for the whole house stereo super easily. ie, Hey Google, play Duke Robillard on Pandora on Main Floor turns on 3 zones of music at once.

That only is a problem on long international trips though and just requires I use my pc for music which I usually do on trains and such anyways

I have 2 beefs. They Apple'd themselves requiring a Chromecast to cast which is frustrating since it is free on all other Android devices and the lack of a charging port while listening to my headphones pisses me off.

I love the stupid Pixel stand too. I never pick up my phone during the day while at work, but work on it a ton.

The Pixel experience is so far beyond any other Android. Converting my whole family...even the Apple fanboi's

The tap and hold on the iphone drives me nuts...

Home automation is crap with the Apple in comparison. You have to buy all their shit and good luck getting it to recognize, I am home and have it turn on the lights, music etc

messages.google.com, photos.google.com

Again, turn on gestures. They are more intuitive than the Apple ones.

I bet the Pixel 4 was running the old operating system interface. All three I have seen were which is WAY too bad.

I am also soured as they are a huge customer and SUPER shitty to deal with.

That's another efficiency gain is the integration with Windows that Android has. Wirelessly automatically sharing texts, calendar, pictures, so that I don't have to pull my phone off the charger to do anything. Voice control is better on the Android as well. Add to that control of home automation and it makes it hard to swallow the A product.

Android 10 is way, way, way better than 9

I hate, hate, hate wasting. It is a resource we never get back.