This kind of ad could work except for the fact that Google's phone design is objectively awful.
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Honestly good play Google, reminds everyone that the stupid spanning camera bar is just a rumour and won’t be happening
I suspect Ive left because he was frustrated working under Tim Cook.
That’s actually what’s cool…… android (as an open system) works with all manner or things from different manufacturers. You don’t just get Google accessories with a pixel, that’s Applethink. You get pretty much whatever you want (and save a ton of cash for as good if not better tech in the process!)
Their Chromebook laptops are excellent value for money and seem to be selling really well.
did Apple really claim the new design? give me link.
THere's *no way* I'd ever purchase a thicker iPhone. My 16PM is too thick as it is. Thus I'll be considering a 17 Air.
The "camera bump" doesn't bother me at all. But then... I'm not into impressing other people with the phone in my shirt pocket (with or without a camera bump).
It's probably because normal people don't place/carry their cameras with the lens extended out in their pants pockets like they do with an iPhone. And an extended camera lens doesn't have that annoying wobble when you place it flat on table and try to use it like with an iPhone.
Steve Jobs solved this problem a decade ago. Apple could make the iPhone wedged like the MacBook Air. Thicker at the end where the cameras are. Thinner at the bottom. That way when you place it flat on a table, there's no wobble.
You can use standard Bluetooth earphones from Sony with android phones. Standards are better than proprietary lock ins.
One thing Google has copied is Apple's dynamic island. On my one plus 13R with android 15, when playing Spotify, it shows the album art and sound waveform around the front camera
Google is getting good at sucking.
It's not who does it first. It's who does it BETTER.
you know the winning brand when the other brand all they can do instead of upping their game is to mock the other brand.
Oh, this gave me the same vibes as the "Hi, I am Mac, and I am PC" ads.
When it comes to marketing to regular people, if a feature is available to them they simply do not care if someone did it “first”.
Thats the territory of us tech nerds and enthusiasts. An admission of sorts that Google understands the Pixel audience is a self selected subgroup, and not a mass market product.
I personally think Apple’s approach in marketing to everyone is why you have so many grandparents and teens (and everyone in between) with Apple products. Meanwhile, Android hardware makers have to fight amongst the tech crowds for their market share. Samsung is making some headway into escaping this and broadening to mass market appeals, but everyone else is battling over low double digits of market share.
Just some food for thought on mass appeal in consumer products…
Thats the territory of us tech nerds and enthusiasts. An admission of sorts that Google understands the Pixel audience is a self selected subgroup, and not a mass market product.
I personally think Apple’s approach in marketing to everyone is why you have so many grandparents and teens (and everyone in between) with Apple products. Meanwhile, Android hardware makers have to fight amongst the tech crowds for their market share. Samsung is making some headway into escaping this and broadening to mass market appeals, but everyone else is battling over low double digits of market share.
Just some food for thought on mass appeal in consumer products…
You mean like Apple's "I'm a PC" "I'm a Mac" ads? Admittedly, that’s one thing Apple did first.
Except the fact that those were actually funny, and done by real talented actors, with actually good writing behind them.
These Google ads *could* work, if it wasn’t AI voices and awful childish arguments.
Exactly.
What car company first used LED taillights?
Right. Nobody cares when they’re buying their next car.
because google didn't copy anything at all...
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