From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   AJL wrote:   
   >>Why would Motorola make things so difficult?  Why would people buy   
   >>motorola unless they don't know how much more useful Android can be on   
   >>other phones.  Both the Moto G and my current Xiami use Andrlid 11.   
   >   
   > Ah, good old Motorola. I worked there as a tech for several years in the   
   >  60s. But it was a government electronics division back then, no cell   
   >  phones...   
      
   I helped the PowerPC team much later, as we've discussed, but as for the   
   MotoG lineup, I had only one, years ago, which I got for $100 from Google.   
      
   I hated it.   
      
   It was that deal where you signed up for Google Fi (or something like   
   that), and if you canceled, you got to keep the phone, and I *told* them up   
   front what my plan was and they said it's fine to cancel & keep it.   
      
   I don't remember why I hated it though, other than the battery was sealed   
   (which, in those days, wasn't a thing yet since mainly only Apple did it).   
      
   My next phone was a handful of LG Stylo 3+ phones for $139 at Costco.   
   Those, the battery came out easily (and was a wonderful thing to do).   
      
   Now almost every Android OEM followed Apple's sleazy sealed-battery tactics   
   because they know that's what will kill every phone eventually.   
      
   But I did like working with the PowerPC team in Phoenix (or Tempe?).   
      
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