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   On 2/24/26 8:58 AM, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   >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?).   
      
   Dunno. Motorola had 3 plants in the Phoenix metro area at the time. I worked   
    at the Scottsdale plant. I had to have (gasp) secret clearance. Some of our   
    side looking radar stuff had vacuum tubes. Remember those? And some of our   
    other stuff ended up on the moon. The "motor" in Motorola comes from the   
    company's car radio days. But those were before my time...   
      
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