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

[minik]

Can I have my 2 minutes and 2 seconds back, Google?

 

[Joe_]

Aren’t they getting rid of the headphone jack as well?

Yup, also that was a great album!

 

[GrumpyCoder]

I get what they're trying to do, and it's OK to make fun, but what they have here is not really that funny.

Well, maybe it has a tendency towards making fun of the "Apple sheep". The Ive videos were never really good, yet most of the target group were going "ooh", "aaahhh", "woooahhh" whenever they saw one. It would not surprise me if some "reaction videos" to it show up on Youtube very soon, but the typical Apple cultist is replaced with a Google cultist.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Well, maybe it has a tendency towards making fun of the "Apple sheep". The Ive videos were never really good, yet most of the target group were going "ooh", "aaahhh", "woooahhh" whenever they saw one. It would not surprise me if some "reaction videos" to it show up on Youtube very soon, but the typical Apple cultist is replaced with a Google cultist.

I'm not sure if everyone ahhhed. I think many enjoyed how silly they were. I don't remember which late night show spoofed him, but it was the funniest thing I'd seen in ages. I enjoyed the spoof more than his talks.

 

[Virgilinsanity]

Aluminium. It’s not difficult. {Sigh}

 

[DeepIn2U]

I LOVE IT.

out of place and somewhat contradictory, but ok. I always wonder how such weird things get a green

What’s the British pronunciation for ‘cringe’?

What cringe? No way ... what's cringe is so many ppl believe his accent, Ive's, is that think.

What did it take Jony 10yrs to get an officially think British accent after this video while mostly living in the USA that long.

 

[Thehangmn]

what's a headphone jack?

 

[subi257]

I'm amazed when I see a person walking around with a tail...I mean wire coming from their smartphone, really? I can't imagine that inconvenience anymore. I do have a set of wired listing devices, but they are special purpose Jerry Harvey JH15 IEM's

 

[eoblaed]

It's pretty clear this entire thing was done tongue in cheek. In that light, I found it humorous.

 

[darngooddesign]

Late, out of place and somewhat contradictory, but ok. I always wonder how such weird things get a green light.

I remember when Apple had a sense of humor.

 

[aidler]

Good that they keep the headphone jack on some of their phones. It's technically still the best solution to connect headphones. All others solution so far proved to be inferior.

 

[darngooddesign]

That would have been funny a couple/few years ago, but someone should inform Google it’s 2021. A headphone jack? On their latest phone? Surely, that must be the real joke.

The real joke is that none of Apple's BT headphones support lossless Apple Music, so yeah wired headphones in 2021 are better for audio quality.

 

[darngooddesign]

A headphone jack in a phone? Like, an analog jack? You'd think this was 2012, not 2021!

If you want lossless Apple Music with headphones, you need a wired connection.

 

[matrix07]

I guess Apple is living rent free in Google head.

 

[TonnyM]

It makes O sense.

 

[DownUnderDan]

Good god this is cringeeeeey. Is google really this un self-aware?

I think if you look above your head, something is sailing over it.

 

[DownUnderDan]

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

G'day. Nice to meet you. I'm the guy from Australia who uses wired headphones with his smart phone.

 

[DownUnderDan]

I’ve found the ad funny. Apple itself likes to pretend to revolutionize basic and not new features, so it’s funny to see Google play the same game.

that said, the ad can be seen as a way to say: "our principal argument for you to buy this smartphone is the headphone jack", which is not great in 2021

Works for me. Never any reason to remove it in the first place when it came to iPhone.

 

[DownUnderDan]

That was my thought. What year is this? Also, this is what overpaying a bad marketing agency looks like.lol

What’s the British pronunciation for ‘cringe’?

Trump

 

[DownUnderDan]

Good god this is cringeeeeey. Is google really this un self-aware?

I think they get Apple better then you do.

 

[DownUnderDan]

That was my thought. What year is this? Also, this is what overpaying a bad marketing agency looks like.

Google translate the above....I'll buy anything from Apple that is new and shiny. P

 

[SSDGUY]

I love it. Only problem is, it makes it even less likely that the stubborn folks at Apple will reintroduce this simple time-tested hardware option. If I had a dime for every live audio engineer who's cussed out the decision to delete the audio jack on the "modern" phones …

 

[ian87w]

Apple has kind of become a parody onto itself.

Glad to see the 3.5mm still around.


I would bet the main reason Apple got rid of it was due to having the AirPods early in the pipeline, and it would have been too obvious if they ditched the 3.5mm jack the same year.

Create a problem and sell the solution.

It was obvious. Apple announced the first AirPods along with the iPhone 7, the first iPhone without the headphone jack.

 

[ian87w]

I love it. Only problem is, it makes it even less likely that the stubborn folks at Apple will reintroduce this simple time-tested hardware option. If I had a dime for every live audio engineer who's cussed out the decision to delete the audio jack on the "modern" phones …

The joke here is Google already removed the headphone jack from Pixel 2 onwards. Only the Pixel a line has it. The main flagship Pixels don’t.

 

[mikethemartian]

Google 2025 : Behold, The Cathode Ray Tube.

Don’t laugh the vacuum tube might be making a comeback on the nanoscale. Nanoscale vacuum-channel transistors are faster and generate less heat than traditional semiconductor transistors.