Google Channels Jony Ive in Ad Promoting Pixel 5a Headphone Jack

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

They wish they can have Jon Ivy! Is Google just realizing and waking up now?

 

[dwaltwhit]

I mean I get the joke. It’s funny for android/pc people. That’s fine. But advertising that you are continuing with 100 year old technology in your smartphones seems…anachronistic? Like this will age like raw meat when they get rid of the 3.5 in the next couple years. It feels like if the G5 promoted that it was going to have a floppy drive.

 

[mi7chy]

Feels super late and not very relevant. I don't know anyone who uses wired headphones on a smart phone.

Obviously you're not an audio enthusiast. Wired is still best for quality, latency and no downtime from having to recharge wireless earbuds.

 

[macar00n]

If they don't remove universally useful features such as the headphone jack, how can they revolutionize everything a few years later by putting them back again

 

[farewelwilliams]

if only Google can circle the Pixel sales numbers that they're happy with.

 

[iGeek2019]

A few years too late? Maybe. But I do find it funny.

 

[Porco]

I found it quite funny, regardless of the product and my feelings on Apple’s elimination of the headphone jack from some (but not all) of their products. I laughed both with it and at it.

I am still not sure if ”fancy pronunciation!” was the highlight or the lowlight for me, or whether it was utterly inspired or utterly stupid. But it did make me laugh.

 

[NightFox]

I don't know anyone who uses wired headphones on a smart phone.

You can't do what you can't do.

 

[5105973]

I mean I get the joke. It’s funny for android/pc people. That’s fine. But advertising that you are continuing with 100 year old technology in your smartphones seems…anachronistic? Like this will age like raw meat when they get rid of the 3.5 in the next couple years. It feels like if the G5 promoted that it was going to have a floppy drive.

I’m in public so I can’t view the video just yet but that’s what I find puzzling. They already got rid of the 3.5 in their flagship models. As far as I know it’s not coming back to their Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. I’m guessing they’re just having a bit of fun here. They’re quirky that way.

 

[AlphaCentauri]

I do hate Google, but this was actually spot-on and funny 😁

 

[poematik13]

Its sad how Apple lives rent free in their heads

 

[catean]

Google 2025 : Behold, The Cathode Ray Tube.

 

[jclardy]

Nice ad, though kind of a self parody considering the pixel 6 doesn’t have one AFAIK.

Also missed an oportunity to explain how the circle allows for connection at via any angle vs only 2 for lightning/usb-c.

 

[catean]

...allows for connection at via any angle vs only 2 for lightning/usb-c.

Analogic connection versus digital. So 1960s.

 

[sirozha]

I thought it was really good. I had a good laugh. I have about the same amount invested in both AAPL and GOOGL, and I found no offense here.

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

the ending lmao, alumiummmm-aaa

 

[SegNerd]

College humor did it better six years ago.

(Note: Strong language)

 

[DNichter]

Obviously you're not an audio enthusiast. Wired is still best for quality, latency and no downtime from having to recharge wireless earbuds.

Yea I get that, I just find it hard to believe there's a market for people that want high end audio to go with their budget phone. Just doesn't seem like it's worth it from a business perspective.

 

[rafark]

It was cringey and funny at the same time. I wish Apple would make funny ads like this again

 

[baryon]

Regardless, I would still prefer to have a headphone jack on the iPhone. I don't find that its removal has increased battery life, decreased costs or allowed for a smaller device. If anything, devices have gotten bigger since, battery life has stayed the same, and costs have gone up. And the reliability of 3rd party bluetooth headphones is often quite bad, so you can't just buy some cheap ones and be done with it, like you could do with wired headphones. Cheap bluetooth headphones will fail to connect, will remain connected even once you put them away, etc... So you either have to buy Apple's ones or really make sure to read reviews, it has gotten more complicated and much more expensive.

 

[ikir]

Surely they’re parodying themselves, given they already have phones without a 3.5mm headphone jack? This makes no sense!

The AD target users not very updated, informed.. not tech and mart users, just a empty attack to get views. Like old Samsung ads, most of time fake or out of place. Sadly this works, it doesn’t care even if Google itself has abandoned headphone jack in other models. This works in AD.

 

[Stenik]

This is hilarious!

 

[ikir]

Regardless, I would still prefer to have a headphone jack on the iPhone. I don't find that its removal has increased battery life, decreased costs or allowed for a smaller device. If anything, devices have gotten bigger since, battery life has stayed the same, and costs have gone up.

Better water proof, more space for something else inside, you can’t sum up it “no better battery life”

 

[apparatchik]

3 years late, no?

 

[kiensoy]

It’s funny the fact that using Apple Music on this Pixel with headphones you can listen to lossless music. Something you can’t do with an iPhone out of the box.