In the US, we're a little sensitive about the way we've designed things.
We're not sure that everything we always believed in really works as well as it should.
Which, with a tortured twist, brings me to the Pixel 5[1].
Google's latest phone is, my colleague Jason Cipriani reports[2], a lot better than Google's last effort. Which was akin to a piece of ugly plastic flotsam[3] tossed by a sea of despair. Indeed, a Verizon salesman told me[4] its main market was angry people.
Oddly, some Pixel 5 customers are already angry. As postings on Google's community pages reveal[5], they're complaining that there's a gap between the screen and the body of the phone.
One poster offered a picture of their phone and there does appear to be an appreciable gap.
"Is this normal?," the customer asks. "Does this cause issues with waterproofing? How/why has this happened on a £600 device?"
It's clear that many had sympathy. This posting enjoyed 859 upvotes and no downvotes. All seemed to have been posted promptly and within the rules.
This issue has troubled users for a couple of weeks. Another posted: "Hello, I got the phone a week ago and only after 2-3 days of use my screen separated from the body of the phone in one of the corners. I can even see the glue!"
There are always one or two phones that emerge imperfectly into the world. This, though, seems like it has affected quite a few, but certainly not all, devices.
It took Google until Tuesday to respond. A Google community specialist named David Pop declared: "We've had a chance to investigate units from