In response to this delay my mental health has suffered. This is because I bought this phone to help with my ADHD. It was recommended to me to help with that because of the essential space feature and button so that I could track my thoughts, set reminders with my voice and just y’know function. This delay has been extremely damaging because I need to have at least end times of when to expect something by simply because my brain does not handle limbo well, like at all and I need to know when things are going to happen. Or at least when they will happen by, otherwise my brain breaks. I wanted to love this company because the OS also has so many features that benefit my ADHD, such as the minimalistic design and the screen time tracker that gives me instant feedback for when I need to get off my phone. Yes, there are apps for this on other phones but I liked the idea that it was built into this OS.
It would be completely fine that the update was late, that it was staggered, whatever. While I’m bothered by the fact that other phones got it first that’s not that big a deal. The problem for my brain is the lack of communication and at least expected end dates so I can stop fixating on this update and having it break my brain. This is not an unreasonable request in my eyes.
Therefore, I have spent money that should be used on various other things, like Christmas for example, to purchase a pixel phone on monthly payments (it had an upfront payments this is why). I came from a pixel 9 to try this phone because I so wanted it to help. But it’s just made it worse so I’m going back to google and all the various apps for my brain…
You can say I’m being impatient, that’s fine. You can come at me all you want. I just wanted a phone to help with my disability and the lack of transparency or any form of communication has ruined this experience for me. This is just my opinion, I know other people are happy to wait. But this phone broke my brain.
