Before jumping on the plane I bought a 7 day roaming add-on so I was covered in the eventuality of not being near a free WiFi service – it turned out it wasn’t needed but it is always good to be prepared. The plane ride to Sydney was pretty quick although the plane was packed – no empty seats so I it isn’t surprising that it is a fairly profitable route for the two major airlines. Once we arrived there was a bit of a wait because the Sydney airport was short staffed but we eventually got our bags, cleared customs then grabbed the next bus down to Canberra which was a three and a half hour ride with the bus being pretty comfortable.
Tomorrow I’m going to head down to Costco and maybe check out a few stores while I’m over here. I can see that JB HiFi has a special on the Pixel 11 Pro XL however I’m on the fence regarding it because if I am going to go ‘all in’ then I’ll go all in. The problem is that with the Pixel range is that many of the features aren’t compatible with Google Workspace accounts such as Google Health. When there are such limitations then at that point you may as well just go Samsung and not deal with the issues. In defence of Google I guess one could make the argument that the Pixel are more consumer products so things that are relevant to consumers may not be relevant for business customers (even though Google Workspace is the only option for those who have their own demain and want to use it for email – there isn’t a ‘consumer’ service akin to iCloud+ that allows one to add custom domain support to a consumer Google account).
