2018-05-05, 1:00 AM

"It's obviously a software issue resulting from the update, but it seems that Lenovo/Motorola is giving everyone the run-around, rather than acknowledging and resolving the issue. I'm done with Android devices; it's always something. I'm going to sell my X4 and just buy an iPhone."

As a long time (8 years running) Android user, I hate to say it, but I'm almost getting to the point of agreeing with you on that. Between the locking down of physical hardware by OEMs like "Lenovorola" and dependencies on Google Play services with respect to apps, how is it substantially different from Apple's "walled garden" approach at this point really? Sure there's alternative app repositories like F-Droid and others. Sure, there's also custom bootloaders and ROMs out there as well (but that requires a factory reset, rooting, and the data loss that comes with that). Maybe that might be related to Android Police's article titled "Motorola lays off up to half of Chicago engineering team, says Moto Z line will 'continue'" published 3/9/18. (This, coupled with "forgetting" to include the G4(/ Plus) in the announcement re: which devices would receive Oreo, this is beginning to strain credulity, imho)

I'd hoped that thanks to Google's "Project Trebble" that situations like this could be avoided post-Oreo, but it looks like that doesn't really seem to be the case.