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Google Mocks iPhone 15 and Late USB-C Adoption in Latest Ad
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To be fair, Google really needed to switch to USB-C in 2015 because it was using the absolutey awful Micro USB. There was not really a need for Apple to swap the hardware from Lightning at the time, it was just as effective, reversible, and even more compact. And the ecosystem was there to support it across all the other plug-n-play products. The complaints would've been loud if Apple had swapped when Google did. And Apple could’ve made a similar add, mocking google for finally swapping to a reversible “modern” connector system, even if it was different than the lighting connector used by Apple. And Google did market the swap to USB-C, so a little pot calling the kettle . . . .
and agree that the add is a yawner for what could be pretty funny. Could be paced, timed, far better.
and agree that the add is a yawner for what could be pretty funny. Could be paced, timed, far better.
Like a tactile phone with no fiscal keyboard copy and paste from iPhone
Like Universal Clipboard
Like turning the screen orange at night
Like gesture navigation copy and paste from iPhone X
Like satelital communication
And 80% of the design of Android is taken from IOS, in a lower quality way.
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I was gonna try it too, then I discovered it’s running software from Google.
Pretty sure it’s not the point. Google can’t attack other android makers but it actually has slow market share in android. This allows it to get attention (we are talking about it on an apple focused site) and increase marketshare which it has been successful in doing over past few version.
That’s a great point also if the iPhone doesn’t get usb-c it will be super funny.
Also Google cancel so many of their products. I do respect apple is not so waffly. They do cancel feature and products but it’s usually towards another purpose. Some few exceptions would be things like 3D Touch, 32bit support but that was more toward an end (Haptic Touch with more battery space, apple silicone transition) some times it’s for more dubious reasons (driving AirPod sales by getting rid of headphone jack was courages move to line investor pockets).
Apples moves generally seem more calculated and focused. Googles seem erratic and half hearted. Biggest example is gaming. Both have wild success on app stores. Google started stadia and gave up fast. Apple is still chugging along with Apple Arcade which is frankly not super successful because they have a vision. And that’s the difference.
The difference was those Apple ads were designed to remind people that Apple was a good alternative to Microsoft and not a dead product like most assumed. They managed to awaken some curiosity and once the IPhone came along those values were magnified and the Mac was revived.
Sure, but the ad’s thrust seems to be that the iPhone 15 is boring. Well, clearly, the iPhone 15 is exciting enough that Google is preemptively defending against it.
More like headphone jack. 🎧
With magsafe and other wireless charging (watch, airpods), plus bluetooth headphones, plus the speed and reliability of airdrop (vs the instability of lightening, at least when I try it), I think the case for a port on the phone is getting smaller by the day.
It is crazy to me how often Google pushes translate in the US, as if all we do with devices is try communicating with people we ordinarily cannot. As you said, it is a cool feature, but I use translate maybe once a year and when I do it is on web, not conversationally. Not much benefit. Translate appealing to other regions makes a lot more sense to me, where much contact is between languages. Google's Universal Translator deepfaking could be very useful in the future... At any rate, translate itself is not limited to Android, heaven forbid you have to type or dictate the message manually. It bewilders me Google markets translate as a notable feature in this ad.
I like using Image Capture on Mac because you can transfer photos and videos and then delete them from your iPhone or iPad with a few clicks. It’s several more taps to do all that over AirDrop.
It's going to happen as Apple already stated they were going to comply with EU charging port law. Whether or not it will be just in EU countries, at least initially, is the question.
Google was using comparative advertising to show some of the ways Pixel is "better" than iPhone but as far as USB-C goes, that seemed to be more about how Apple was late to the game in adopting the more universal and widely used, accepted, etc. USB-C port for the iPhone. Google is trying to "sell" that the iPhone is having to become more like (and catch up to) Pixel instead of the other way around.
Google also wants to see Apple adopt RCS for messaging. If that were to happen, I imagine Google would run a similar ad for messaging too.
iPhone photography still needs to catch up sorely. I just got back from some travel and was shooting straight backlit subjects at sunrise/sunset with strong sun rays with the Pixel no problem. I was handing off my phone to strangers who thought we had to do some tricks to make the photo work but I just straight up told them "This phone can shoot backlight no problem."
I then had strangers hand me a 14 Pro Max to do the same shots and no amount of HDR could save a shadowed face. Horrendous. I find it absolutely hilarious how people seem to still think the iPhone photos are so good yet it can't struggle at a lot of day to day shots that people run into. Heck even indoors office lighting under shadows because one end of the room had the lights turned off for a projector screen, I heard some people ask "is that too dark?" No. My Nexus 6P could take that photo with no issues. If your 14 Pro can't take that, Apple had some serious work to do on their cameras.
I then had strangers hand me a 14 Pro Max to do the same shots and no amount of HDR could save a shadowed face. Horrendous. I find it absolutely hilarious how people seem to still think the iPhone photos are so good yet it can't struggle at a lot of day to day shots that people run into. Heck even indoors office lighting under shadows because one end of the room had the lights turned off for a projector screen, I heard some people ask "is that too dark?" No. My Nexus 6P could take that photo with no issues. If your 14 Pro can't take that, Apple had some serious work to do on their cameras.
The most adorable kick back against Apple the competition has done ever.
A positive swing of the frenemies.
One should consider the most glaring issue and that's advancements of AI, something Apple sushered into the smartphone space.
No one is leading the field these days so who has time for fanboying phones?
If one sucked and the other was great I'd get still running these ads but Pixels are pretty good and the iPhone is pretty good. I know a lot of people in tech and into tech and the Google ppl and Apple ppl don't even care that much anymore.
If one sucked and the other was great I'd get still running these ads but Pixels are pretty good and the iPhone is pretty good. I know a lot of people in tech and into tech and the Google ppl and Apple ppl don't even care that much anymore.