The iPad introduction video, as captioned by Google

Hey remember that feel-good iPad introduction video with the Ben Folds cover of "In Between Days" Apple posted on launch day? Yeah, well you're going to remember the hell out of it once you watch it with Google's auto-transcription enabled on YouTube. Trust us, you owe yourself these few moments of absurdity.

Update: Video after the break!

[Thanks, Jeff]

The iPad introduction video, as captioned by Google

[statelypenguin Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:05PM]

I can't turn it on cause they're doing maintenance on the site. Awesome.

[abedinthehouse Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:36PM]

@statelypenguin
Its ironic how apple put this up on youtube. Seeing as how their iPad users will never know how fail it is according to Google's translations because they cant play flash videos on their new $500+ gadget.

[nak Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:39PM]

@abedinthehouse Except that they can watch YouTube videos, and Google recently added the HTML 5 video canvas to YouTube which Safari supports as well.

[abedinthehouse Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:40PM]

@abedinthehouse
I just realized 2 big things:

1. Nilay always comes with the best & most talked about posts.

2. If the iPad is so damn thin, why is it the iPhone is so damn thicker..besides the fact that it came out last year, I'm sure they didn't just start working on the iPad this year, and its been under construction when the 3GS came out.

[angermeans Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:46PM]

@abedinthehouse Wow I guess your right cause the iPhone can't even watch YouTube huh. Oh wait they can cause all YouTube videos can be watched without flash don't be a moron go troll somewhere else.

[thrillchuckles Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:51PM]

reminds me of happy in paraguay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU

[abedinthehouse Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:53PM]

@angermeans
lol relaxx, damn im not trolling idiot. i forgot youtube switched, I was talking about in general though...as in when the iPhone first came out....anyway

"We looked at the device and we decided, lets redesign it all" -- Actual quote from the video (not translation)
-----sooo, since when did "redesign it all" mean make it larger and look and do almost the same thing as the iPhone?

[TheGM Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:01AM]

@abedinthehouse Youtube didn't switch. It just uses a Google YouTube app in order to play videos. Android, WebOS all have the same app; obviously they won't need it anymore with Flash coming, but it'll likely stay since it's easier to navigate.

[abedinthehouse Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:12AM]

@TheGM
I stand corrected, need to remember that..-looking back at the actual video itself, apple exaggerates soo much, its not even funny.

[MizuInOz Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:30AM]

@abedinthehouse

Obviously, you are unaware that you also play all of YouTube videos in html 5...

Check out the beta capabilities...

[paul34 Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:33AM]

@thrillchuckles

A fellow DJO fan! Maybe we can have some apple juice sometime and listen to Zeppelin.

[Cy Starkman Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:50AM]

@abedinthehouse

Nah, not troll, after all you can't watch the vid with captions On an iPhone at least to my 10sec of attempt

[Colrath Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:52AM]

@abedinthehouse The iPhone played YouTube from launch.

[month Posted Mar 9th 2010 1:02AM]

@abedinthehouse
The reason the iPad is so much thinner is because it has much more space to work with, more square inches for components? Think about it man, it's not that hard of a concept

[iCello Posted Mar 9th 2010 1:09AM]

@abedinthehouse um... The iPhones always been able to watch YouTube videos, via the YouTube app or the mobile site.

[RidleyGriff Posted Mar 9th 2010 1:18AM]

@abedinthehouse No, you're still trolling. The iPhone has been able to watch YouTube since launch day. The little icon that says "YouTube"? That's the one.

[youngluck Posted Mar 9th 2010 1:30AM]

@abedinthehouse Do you bump your head a lot? You Tube has been running html5 for months. I had to opt in, not for the novelty, but because Flash consistently crashes Chrome. Yes, YouTube consistently crashes Google CHrome. How is that for irony.

[notafanboy Posted Mar 9th 2010 1:35AM]

@statelypenguin

apple sure knows how to market their products...but sorry still wouldn't pull a trigger for it.

[Cy Starkman Posted Mar 9th 2010 1:53AM]

@youngluck

Do you mob even read the comments or just leap at the first thing.

Abeinthehouse well cleared themselves.

People are so hair trigger it takes nothing to end up downranked into a ban round this place.

And I repeat even though no one will get to this comment before having a freak out... You can't watch the captions on an iPhone so from an ON TOPIC angle you'd have to say the iPhone can't play this video as referred to in the article!

[WixosTrix Posted Mar 9th 2010 2:21AM]

@abedinthehouse

The iPad has more flat space than the iPhone/iPod Touch. There isn't that much of a difference hardware wise so they can just say the hardware out instead of trying to cram it into a small form factor.

I don't know anything about build mobile products but that seems logical to me.

[SONYEDDIE Posted Mar 9th 2010 3:42AM]

@statelypenguin
umm lazy eye O.o

[ashvala Posted Mar 9th 2010 3:48AM]

Listen to 3:03
" Every one of your albums their just a stack of photos... and you can just polls show clinton key in nasdaq in children... I look upon her votes"

[ashvala Posted Mar 9th 2010 3:54AM]

ONE MORE!

"We traded McCain on the other, I thought he'd ever seen him before"
and
"And not only can you read books on it, what do you actually flips over to repeal a book store behind. With half a finger, you can download a book and police are already treating it"

I should use this youtube captioner on Metallica. The misheard lyrics will be truly awesome! :)

[fuesse Posted Mar 9th 2010 6:35AM]

@cherrycolens
right, like that awesome "i phone killer"-phone that is driving people crazy because its so shitty?

[Herlev Posted Mar 9th 2010 9:03AM]

@abedinthehouse

"If the iPad is so damn thin, why is it the iPhone is so damn thicker..besides the fact that it came out last year, I'm sure they didn't just start working on the iPad this year, and its been under construction when the 3GS came out"

The Ipad is 13.4mm thick
The Iphone is 12.3mm thick

you only think its thinner because everything else on the device is bigger.

[etwashoo Posted Mar 9th 2010 9:04AM]

@MizuInOz

Yeah, but not the NYTIMES. Check out 2:09. Theres the little blue cube where the video is supposed to be because there is no flash on the ipad. Haha.

[jedi Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:50PM]

@TheGM

The iphone can play youtube videos because that part of the web decided to abandon device neutral standards and cater to a particular specific device. The iphone can play youtube videos because Apple has already managed to balkanize the web to some extent.

Now they want to balkanize it even further.

Apple fanboys are bragging about taking us back to the 80s.

[jetzking Posted Mar 9th 2010 3:32PM]

@youngluck
how do you use HTML5 for youtube vids on chrome? it keep scrashin from flash.

btw chrome dictioanry didnt recognise youtube, hows that for more irony

[ashleythehottiest Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:07PM]

I almost had a orgasm laughing so hard!

[outlaw85 Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:20PM]

@ashleythehottiest
is that a flash video on youtube?
oh wow..

[Twitchy Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:33AM]

@ashleythehotties

1:55 WTF is up with teh creeEEEeppyyy eyes?!?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2010 1:18AM]

@Twitchy

RDF side effect..

[Abe Posted Mar 9th 2010 4:14AM]

@Twitchy

Indeed, I got too scared to finish the video because those people are way creepy. Is Apple a cult or a company?

[DrPhil Posted Mar 9th 2010 6:52AM]

@Abe Yep... it's THE best way to look at the web... except... ooops... we don't support Flash. DUH.

Yeah, apple people creep me out... WEIRD. Must be something the put in the water up there...

[peaches Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:07PM]

goddamn the world. youtube fails now. of course

[DeceaseFree Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:40PM]

@peaches

And isn't the background music in this video Ben Folds covering The Cure's "In Between Days"?

Not "Just Like Heaven"...

[Nilay Patel Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:06AM]

@DeceaseFree Yes, I know. That's probably the single most embarrassing mistake I've ever made on this site -- I've loved the Cure since I was 14 years old, dammit.

[The Geek Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:07PM]

2:23 "[The iPad] Is a world class female"

[The Geek Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:09PM]

@The Geek 3:38 "There is no joy"

[The Geek Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:10PM]

@The Geek 4:23 "The police are treating it"

[The Geek Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:11PM]

@The Geek "Police in two hours. Oh no i can't"

[Wildman Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:16PM]

@The Geek 2:25 "it's incredibly fun but very productive" (with regards to the female)

apple has invented the perfect wife!!!

[Frawley Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:17PM]

@The Geek It's incredibly fun...

[The Geek Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:19PM]

@Wildman I'll take two

[Special Agent Steve Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:20PM]

@The Geek
I think Google's trying to tell Apple something.
1:18
"We looked at the device UNdecided to redesign"

[Edobe Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:43PM]

@The Geek 0:39 "we wanted to take over"

Freudian slip?

[JQuB3 Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:52PM]

@Wildman
2:29 "and it's fun because.. you're too tall to him"

[Mysterius Posted Mar 8th 2010 11:59PM]

@Special Agent Steve Or signs of self-awareness?

Apple: "... a whole new gold rush for developers."

CC: "new gold rush ... perhaps"


5:00 w/CC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-YAQ1wfNqc#t=4m52s

[New Reformation Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:12AM]

@Mysterius

There is no single currency.

[ninjaskllz Posted Mar 9th 2010 12:36AM]

@New Reformation "to achieve the battering that lasts all day long" lol