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This is the Pixel prison: I can check out any time, but I can never leave
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority October 2017: Google announced the Pixel 2 XL, and I spent a couple of days jumping through hoops trying to order the phone’s panda version to ship to Lebanon. My first few orders didn’t go through because the Google …