Google Mocks iPhone 15 and Late USB-C Adoption in Latest Ad

[bousozoku]

Google shouldn't be mocking anyone about their phones. The Tensor processors are years behind the competition in performance.

The Pixel 6a I bought to replace my OnePlus 8T is actually slower, despite being quite a bit newer--Tensor vs Snapdragon 865.

 

[cylack]

Why no mention from iphone to pixel “Hey pixel remember when your boss Eric Schmidt sat on the board of directors of Apple and ripped off my ideas in order to create you?"

 

[Taipan]

The thing is that Lightning is still the better port, at least the physical format.

 

[zach-coleman]

The same nerds that obsess over USBC are the same people that made this ad and are appealing to an incredibly narrow audience. It’s more of an in joke than a general advertisement. Most consumers just don’t care.

I keep saying this. The average person is more likely to be pissed off at having to replace their cables. I want USB-C, but I don’t think even 1 in 10 iPhone users care about this at all in a positive way.

Better buy a rubber bung to stop the usb c port going faulty. My friends last 3 Samsungs no longer charge via usb c as the ports all failed. Seems fine on laptops etc but pocket fluff is apparently an issue for them. 🤷‍♂️

The lighting port has plenty of problems with lint too.

The thing is that Lightning is still the better port, at least the physical format.

Lightning has less pins. It never could have been the one port to rule them all, even if it was an open standard. We need a port ready to last the next 30 years.

 

[falainber]

Google will be the first one to watch the Apple Wonderlust Event. In addition, they can’t wait to can’t wait to copy a feature or two from the iPhone 15 line up. 👀

iPhones had nothing to copy from for years. iPhone 15 is just trying to catch up with Android counterparts that had features like USB-C port and periscope lens for years.

 

[AgeOfSpiracles]

The thing is that Lightning is still the better port, at least the physical format.

I also prefer the physical connector of Lightning, but USB-C is close enough and if it comes with higher power and data speeds then I'll happily move on.

 

[jz0309]

When you’re chasing the most profitable smartphone maker, you get creative … let’s see in a year whether it paid off, doubt it though

 

[Kierkegaarden]

Wow. Mobile phones in a spa? This type of ad strategy worked really well for Samsung, Intel, Meta, didn’t it? Welcome to that club, you losers.

 

[Hails09]

That list is pretty short and pales in comparison to the list from Google.

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You might say Google copied everything...

So you’re going back 16 years?
All companies take thing from each other like for example Samsung making a big phone then Apple eventually releases one.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

These ads are so cute. Reminds me of the friendship Mac and PC had with the Get a Mac ads.

 

[cjboffoli97]

If Google would only put as much energy into supporting (as opposed to killing) the Nest hardware that I was foolish enough to invest in, instead of cherry picking certain aspects of Apple's product lines, I'd be better served as a Google customer. Otherwise, this seems like the usual game of adding every gimmick one can think of, no matter if it is half baked, and then trying to attack Apple's more measured approach, claiming that you're the innovator and Apple is behind. It's just so tired and thirsty. I'm sure it panders to a certain psychographic but it is useless against satisfied Apple customers, especially those who understand that Google's business model is in commoditizing everything you do on their devices.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

The problem with these 'adverts' from Google, Samsung, is that they talk constantly about features but not the benefits. One of the first rules of salesmanship is that the two go hand-in-hand.

The Get a Mac ads did the same thing. Later in the ad campaign's life the ads were picking low fruit and were just riffing on Windows Vista.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Well sure, why exactly would they open up this feature to competitors? Doesn't make any sense.

I don't mean that they should open it up, I mean that if they were just so happen to go portless and the single best way to transfer files only works on Apple devices, what then? As opposed to just sticking a USB cable in and quickly and reliably pulling data off that way.

 

[pacalis]

Lightning has less pins. It never could have been the one port to rule them all, even if it was an open standard. We need a port ready to last the next 30 years.

Ports are so 2020.

 

[btrach144]

What never made sense to me is iPad Pro used USB-C since at least 2018. Yet it has taken over 5 years for the iPhone to get USB-C. Any iPhone/iPad Pro user has been driven crazy these last 5 years with needing two different cables. The user experience has been awful.

I believe Jobs would have required the Pro to use lightening and only given the green light for USB-C once all devices could adopt it.

 

[CarAnalogy]

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I guess I should have elaborated that my actual point is that USB is a standard that works with everything. Nobody can seem to agree on any other universal standards. There's a ton of ways to do it, maybe too many ways.

 

[zach-coleman]

Ports are so 2020.

Thunderbolt? ⚡️

 

[Tig Bitties]

Pixel UI is ten million times better than the outdated Fisher Price iOS. I will give Apple credit on creating well crafted high-end phones, with amazing hardware, but man iOS just blows.

Pixel 8 Pro # 1 for 2023
S23 Ultra # 2 for 2023
iPhone 15 Pro Max # 3 for 2023

 

[Dreamweaver12]

I still dont get all the hate. 10 years ago when Apple introduced the Lightning connection, they very clearly said this was going to be the connector for the next decade.

 

[chrisrosemusic1]

Any ad produced to try and humiliate another product or brand is pure cringe and desperate (especially when it’s not even funny); It actually makes you less appealing IMO. Sell your product and tell people why they would have a better life with it, don’t sink to try and shame something else. I’ve tried every iteration of Pixel and the longest I’ve lasted without running back to iOS is 4 months. Their hardware failure rate is too high and their ‘ecosystem’ is just, well, rubbish compared to Apples. Plus Google privacy is always a massive turn off for me now. Do better Google.

 

[farmkittie]

The cucumber on the camera was cute but after that the ad was "yawn" for me.

 

[BuffaloTF]

To read some of the posts, you would think some have suffered immeasurably directly due to Apple not jumping on the USB-C bandwagon as fast as they would have liked. I would love to hear real world, fact-based experiences from some here about how they have harmed by Apple's sometime slow adoption. What were they slow on that actually caused you or your business to lose money, contracts or produce lower quality work? Taking a bit longer for a file to be moved to or from an iPhone doesn't qualify as harm.

I would imagine many are the same ones that dragged Apple for adopting USB C in all of their laptops in, I forget exactly… 2015? “Now I need dongles for everything!”… and the Venn diagram is probably still almost a perfect single circle for those that complained about Apple dropping the 30 pin connector for lightning to begin with since they had so many of them and things like the iHome docks.

 

[webkit]

Sooooo… Google made an ad based on a rumored, unannounced Apple product? Do I have that right?

It's a pretty safe bet Apple will be moving to USB-C as they already stated they will comply with the EU charging port law.

 

[norbinhouston]

It makes it seem like Apple wasn't technically competent enough to put a USB-C into the iPhone until now. The uneducated masses will just take that and believe it.

 

[alchemistmuffin]

"Rest up for October 4," reads the ad's tagline, in reference to Google's upcoming Pixel event, where it is expected to unveil a new Pixel 8 lineup, a new Pixel Watch, and potentially Pixel Buds updates.

Except by the time the new Pixel lineup is released, it’ll by already obsolete by then, as Apple’s A17 Bionic will be much much more powerful than what Google has to offer.

If Google wants to really compete, they have to make more powerful chip. Otherwise even if they add new physical features, the phone will be DOA if it doesn’t have a chip that matches the power of Apple Silicon.

Also, Apple tried to make Lightning work, but in the end, Apple threw the towel when they realized that they can’t get faster transfer speed without adding additional pins on lightning cable. (No, it’s not the EU mandate that pushed Apple to finally make the change, it’s Apple (in rare moment) admitting defeat that Lightning no longer can provide same power as USB-C and Thunderbolt)