r/Android • u/ControlCAD Google Pixel 10 Pro XL • Mar 01 '26

Video Google Is Closing Android. 37 Orgs Are Fighting Back. - Techlore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZfGq5F1NU
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u/GaTechThomas Mar 01 '26

What was out of touch? Marketing just needs to be entertaining and nothing more.

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u/polo421 Pixel 10 Pro XL Mar 01 '26

The commercial was trying to make smartphone sales by making fun of smartphone users. Pretty dumb to me.

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u/Kooky-Bandicoot3104 Mar 02 '26

like google pixel's ads don't do that to iphones ?

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u/polo421 Pixel 10 Pro XL Mar 02 '26

Show me one like that. I'll wait.

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u/Kooky-Bandicoot3104 Mar 02 '26

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/04/google-pixel-10-ad-siri-delay/ hard to find them, seems like google is hiding it and i am using google to find google's wrong doing

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u/polo421 Pixel 10 Pro XL Mar 02 '26

Yeah....as I thought, no where is Google making fun of USERS. They make fun of Apple.

The Microsoft ad was making fun of users being stuck to their phones and showing them all to be stupid. In reality, we loved our phones because they were doing amazing things we had never seen before. On many many levels it is just a dumb way to try to sell a product. At the time, Microsoft had like 1% of the user base and they were trying to get people to switch from apple and Google and they put out an ad making fun of the average smartphone user.

To me it's just clearly one of the dumbest advertisements I've ever seen for a failure of a product. If you don't see that I don't know how to help you.

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u/Kooky-Bandicoot3104 Mar 03 '26

Apple made fun of windows USERS in the PC guy vs mac guy where pc guy was a generic office worker while the mac user was a cool young user ; nobody is a saint.

The advertisement may not portray what the strengths of windows phone were but was not the worst ad I have seen made for a product.

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u/polo421 Pixel 10 Pro XL Mar 03 '26

Better example for sure. But still it would be pretty dumb if apple made fun of ALL USERS like Microsoft did in the video. Also, when have smartphone users (especially back then) ever wanted to "get in and get out" of using their phone?? That actually might be the most out of touch part.

Who were they trying to sell to with this ad?

Regardless and with hindsight we know it went as well as it always goes for Microsoft. Decent product but late and out of touch marketing.

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u/polo421 Pixel 10 Pro XL Mar 01 '26

Also, we were looking at our smartphones like that because they were cool gadgets we had never seen before and we were in love with them. Microsoft was like, nah man, with our phone you won't want to look at it.

I remember at the time people were making fun of the ad all over the place. It was definitely out of touch.