What ’s that look ? Is that a steaming pot of hypocrisy someone go out on the back burner on in high spirits ? Why , so it is !
The Verge tells us what ’s cooking at Google .
“ After roasting Apple about headphone jacks , Google quietly dumps it from Pixel 6A”(Tip type O ’ the antlers toTay . )
Well , this is just shocking . If you ca n’t trust advertising , what can you trust ?
Google : “ Ha , get a lot oftheseguys taking the earpiece jack off their phones ! Our phones proudly have headphone jacks ! ”
Also Google : “ Gerry , get me design , pronto . ”
If you ’re recreate along at home you might call in that this is not the first company to first mock Apple for getting rid of the earpiece laborer and then doing the exact same thing later . Three years ago it was Samsung .
“ Samsung ditches headphone jak after thrusting at jackless challenger ”
And , yes , Jackless Rivals is the name of the Macalope ’s indy alternative band . You probably have n’t heard of us . We ’re pretty subversive . ( “ seditious ” means “ We ca n’t get book anywhere because we do n’t know how to play instrument ” , veracious ? )
The comic affair is , though , not only did Samsung do the same thing before , Google itself did the same thing before , as The Verge notes .
In an ad for the very first Pixel — released in 2016 , the same twelvemonth as the iPhone 7 — Google take down this key feature of speech : “ 3.5 millimetre headphone seaman satisfyingly not new . ” But the headphone jack was gone from the Pixel 2 release just a year by and by .
Google must be really wad on the pound what with all this consume cake and eating it , too .
“ Oh , nur , I couvn’t prossibly eaf any murr . ” [ shove patty in mouth and pouch ]
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It ’s one thing to make fun of something when do n’t currently have plans to do the precise same thing , and in 2016 Google probably did n’t . They ’d rather wait and see if Apple could get away with it . But it ’s another to have a phone on the draftsmanship board without a headphone jackfruit while at the same time run advertizing saying how awesome phone doodly-squat are .
Steve Jobs was no alien to deride something a competitor ’s equipment had and then later adding it to Apple ’s offering . Although , when he said “ If you see a style , they blew it ” he was probably referring to a stylus that was less than $ 90 . Probably , right ? Still , the caller has rarely run an ad campaign deride a competitor for a feature and then follow up that same lineament less than a yr afterwards .
It was dumb when Apple lauded itself for its “ bravery ” in take out the headphone jack . But it ’s undeniable that Apple has a leadership situation in design in the smartphone industry and if you did n’t think other vendors would soon abide by suit and also remove the earphone gob , well , then you do n’t know headphone sea dog about how the smartphone industry work .
