It's no wonder Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones have turned heads. Their high-quality builds and sophisticated look are a far cry from the cheap, pedestrian Nexus Android smartphones Google used to sell. And with the battery debacle forcing Samsung to drop its Note 7 from the market, the stylish Pixel XL is an obvious alternative.
But for enterprise use, the Pixel is too rough around the edges to deploy. IT and users will be befuddled by the networking naïveté in the Android 7.1 Nougat operating system the Pixel runs on. Great hardware doesn't fix poorly designed software, and it's clear that Google's Android engineers haven't a clue about enterprise environments.