Heard Yanny the first time. “Listened” for Laurel the second time and now that’s all I can hear.

Same here. I’ve had it so cheap for so long I don’t know if I could justify current prices if they ever booted me off.

I can’t argue the Schnatter opinion, but Papa John’s is not “gross garbage food”. Sure, he made it easy for internet circle-jerkers to pile on the hate, Nickelback style, but for the rest of us it is passable, cheap, and easy to acquire. No one is impressed by the refined palate you have for a food item you can…

Pizza snobs are almost as bad as beer snobs. No one is impressed about that “authentic” pizza you had that one time at that hole in the wall restaurant in Chicago.

Umm, you do realize that it was machine learning that enabled the object removal tech, right? Try and keep up.

...all of which was in the story...

If the interest rate is low enough to get you above water after a few years and outpace depreciation it may not be that bad of an option for people who plan to keep their cars for a very long time anyway.

You assume that NOW is always the best time to deal with something. Sometimes it isn’t and it’s nice to get irrelevant things out of the way so that you can focus on what DOES need to be dealt with now. Further, you get the added bonus of it “arriving” again at the proper time, complete with new notifications and a…

Did they fix tracking? No? Then, hard pass.

Is he supposed to sound borderline mentally handicapped?

When are you Apple zealots going to get over the fact that people, for the most part, just don’t give a shit about any of this? Believe it or not, it’s not some big secret that Google knows everything. Chances are even the Apple faithful would be on board if Apple hadn’t made supposed privacy a marketing point for…

It’s not that they can’t tie it to you, it’s that they don’t. And before you say “yeah, right” just remember that Apple has the same capabilities and for some reason people just trust them.

I was born in the early 80's and remember MASK vividly, however, I have never even heard of Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. US, FWIW.

So the only people who thought it would outsell the others were those with the biggest voices, widest reaches, and the most influence, but anecdotally the few people you personally know thought otherwise. Gotcha.

Yes. Literally everyone who is now making excuses did. You can’t rewrite history because it doesn’t play out how you expected.

her Google history that she (she claims) she never

What kind of terrible financing did you stumble into? If the Pixel 2 wasn’t released yet then you should have just over 2 years of support on the phone you bought. Not incredible, but also not terrible considering they do push out normal app and service updates via the Play Store long after that.

So you bought an old phone on an extended payment plan and you’re upset that it’ll be out of date by the time you pay it off? That sounds more like a financial mistake on your part and less the fault of Google.

ITT and the story above: People who replace their iPhones yearly supposedly getting upset about a 3 year support window for a platform they would never buy into anyway.

Owners of the devices should be aware that Google’s decision to stop selling them means support for the phones will expire soon as well.