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.