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Helo
Nice video..
Your videos are getting better day by day😂
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so incredible
That intro is everything! I WANT THAT BLIND!
hyperconsumerism moment
Yo, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but it takes a special kind to buy something called an apple blind over a Windows blind.
🤣🔥🔥 OM is in the building guys🔥🤌🏾
@@supahx1421 where can I buy these blinds.........
@Khenti Khan I'd like to thank common sense. I only have a little, but in this world it means a lot.
This proves marketing is everything. I want these blinds now.
Everything for those who have no integrity
@@flowerofash4439 tell me how marketing-proof, independent thinker you are
@Flower of Ash Careful there. Someday someone may market the concept of jokes to you. Make sure to keep protecting your integrity.
Nah. I'll wait for Pro Max.
STERILE CGI TRAILER LET'S GOOOOO
The CGI is immaculate, but the hand gestures are what made this
I thought the exaggerated shoe squeaks were pretty great too.
Love the color selection. So diverse and beautiful. I cant decide which one i want so i think ill buy them all!
Apple : all white is a wide range of colours
Off white white
Maybe if I identify as "Navajo White" I'll be able to get a job, applying as White doesn't seem to be working.
"the blindr tilt wand is sold separately" so accurate
and it never compatible with blinder 1.0 😂
@@LeekSeo 😂
'Only $1,499.'
it more looks like samsung
@@savva8716LOL. Really now? What a delusional stockholmed ifruity fanboi.
And Samsung sadly follows where ifruit blaze the trail in ways to cheat and squeeze the last juice out from its fanboi.
I can’t believe this man just rendered a whole ass blinds for a parody video. What commitment
This video is all about commitment, and I love this guy
No...
What a legend
30k to make, what a huge commiment! :))
Yeah that's what I thought of too
You mean the Blindr. ?
I don't think I have ever seen a sponsorship so well integrated into a video before; no ad segment but built right in. Massive props to this guy 💯
I can’t imagine the impact of having my window blinds data stolen 😨😨😨
Apple your windows? 😂
Those blinds would be 500+ and would be upgraded every three months and raise the price by at least 100$ and somehow making the previous blinds obsolete
tell the people that the blinds would normally cost 1000+ and say but the company has a special offer only for the people. Now for only 499,- and the people go crazy for how "cheap" it is XD
You have to sync them up with the rest of your apple products or they'll refuse to rotate.
Seriously. Though $500 is not super expensive for blinds. They'd be 2k, with well places promotional sales lol
And be sold with a ridiculously small cleaner, in a bottle that runs out after you coat the brush once LOL
They'll make the previous blinds obsolete by serialising every slat with a chip so that you can't transfer slats from blind to blind even if it's from another Blindr. It will disable the opacity of the slat and let ALL the sunlight through rendering the slat non-functioning. 🤬
Did you forget to mention how apple increases privacy?
"To ensure your privacy, blinder 2.0 will be sending constant live stream video of your bedroom to our ai servers. When the ai detects you are undressing, the blinds will automatically shut."
"PS: some images may be retained for user training and review of the ai engine"
HAHAHA
XD
Real lmao
Thank you for the laugh!!! This is brilliantly funny!
Some Images might be kept for research purposes
digital blinds right up there with electric soap which I'm convinced you could also sell as long as the presentation is slick
Auto dispensers already exist. Like, wouldn't want to get germs from your soap dispenser on your hands before you wash them, now would we? I'm sure someone's already working on getting them voice activated through Alexa or something so they can harvest some juicy data while they're there
I’m sold on the electric soap already
I bet if these were real blindrs in production, some people would try them😂😂
We all know at least one of them. 🙄
It's called the Apple Vision Pro. Available base model $3,500. You can't make it up.
I love how the tilt wand is sold separately for $249, Ha!
If they want it they will pay for it! And it’s your job to make them want it!
Apple Pen Anyone
And if it breaks, you can't service it yourself but will have to spend $200 at an offical vendor to service it.
classic Apple move
You only get the wood in the box. Everything else is sold separately, only works with our screws too. If you get any other screws, your warranty is void.
prediction: Blindr will pivot to Grindr for blind dates
Hey Ben
underrated comment
whaaat ben is everywhere
Glad to see you here.
Exactly
So accurate! This is a proof that you can sell anything very normal with a great talent of storytelling and marketing skills
The answer to Nikhil''s question hit me hard. The business guys love to hear a sophisticated answer even though it does not make sense.
Exactly, I was like what the f is this guy even saying?
They could sell iAir without a problem
How much? Sign me up for preorder please
Thneedville
But where do you put the white button?
How about iShit?????
@@amusic9825 Also: IShitYouNot!
The answer about the plans for the next 5 years was spot on as how companies use jargons to obfuscate the fact that they themselves are unsure what the plans are.
lmao so true
I swear I heard that synergy bs before for companies future. I had the same puzzled look like my namesake. 😆
Like how your using the word “jargons” and “obfuscate” as if those are common words, it’s not hard to use more words instead of having others use more thoughts to understand
@@TheTruth-13 jargon and obfuscate are common words.
@@TheTruth-13 please tell me that this is a joke
The wand for the blinds alone being $250 is what sent me 😂😂😂
Bit of a funny story I have regarding blinds as well. Back when my brother and I moved out from home, we roomed together, a stepping stone of getting more independence but not making enough yet to live by ourselves and not wanting/having random friends as roommates. As I packed to leave our mom's house, I remember seeing the measuring tape and knowing I would perhaps need it, so to pack it where I would find it again.
I somehow lost it anyways. Our upstairs bathroom at the new apartment needed blinds, and sooo...we decided to wing it. We went to Walmart, bought some blinds, aaand...they were too large. Alrightie, no biggie, Walmart is great about returns if you have a receipt. We just bought smaller blinds and exhanged them. They were now too small. Damnit, let's try this again! Still too small. By this point, we have now made three to four trips to Walmart and NEVER did we just think, "Gee, we should just buy a new measuring tape!" No, we were idiots and convinced we would find the old one and didn't want to buy a new one. We NEVER found the old one. And finally, four or five times the charm, we got the measurement right with the window. The woman at the customer service counter would laugh and shake her head sadly at us each sheepish time we returned 😅
I would like to think if I were ever to buy something as fancy as Blindr 2.0, I would take the time to measure the window but...probably not 😅
My favorite is his tennis shoes squeaking when he pivots. That squeak says everything.
Would totally support the crowdfund for this
Omg😅💗
OMG you're here lmao hahaha
hello pysch2go never wondered you would be here !!! btw big addict of your videos.
Text me
Wyd? @Psych2go ?
This guy was able to create the most entertaining NordVPN ad I've ever seen.
When I actually got to the NordVPN ad i loled so hard
I was sure I will find comment like that, when I saw that add 😁
Internet historian is a worthy opponent
Lmaooo
Looks like you didn't watch Internet historian yet
I love how much you committed to this gag. Amazing!
You better have insurance if a tiny bird bumps into your window and dies instantaneously, taking your blinds with it.
You missed the part where to save on packaging all panels are sold individually at your local apple store and if one becomes damaged, they are still available at the apple store for the small price of $299 per panel, and if you decide to replace it with a non apple certified panel, all other panels will refuse to rotate and will actually go see through. All of this is of course for the safety of our users as we don’t want them being spied on by counterfeit products, but they can worry no more as our blindr has an individual camera and audio recorder in each panel so that everything you say and do is recorded for our… market research.
Blindr* smh
Ah, the good ol' i-mafia
3rd biggest company in the US
Hhahahahaha
You also cannot use blinds from another blinder to replace faulty ones because they will still refuse to recognize parts of another device even if genuine which will ensure that all repairs will have to be done through Apple’s daylight robbery of a system.
I love my Blindr blinds. Everyone who makes fun of them for being $1000 per blind plus $249 for each sold-separately motor plus the monthly activation subscription fee is just jealous. It's actually a good price when you consider the quality, and now with their new family subscription plan I can use all the blinds in my house for only $79 a month. These blinds _just work_ once you install all the compatible Blindr windows. In fact, it's so convenient and special that I don't think I can live with anyone who doesn't exclusively have Blindr blinds. It ruins the whole network when one person in the household uses non-Blindr blinds, because it then shows that window as a green window rather than a blue one in the Blindr Home Control app's 3D model of my home.
We humans are so faillible omg
brilliant 👏😂
should've named it iBlind
That's probably one of the best ways to sponsor something. It was so smooth and natural.
I'm kinda convinced Joma will actually make blindr a reality once he secures the funds.
Why not. Lets make it happen
@@roykibet6038 It would be a cool social experiment tbh, and if people actually buy it, then there's definitely someting wrong with us lool
@@loopyzreal The do look cool though
@@loopyzreal Can I get them in Off-white White? 🤣
@@loopyzreal Trust me, they WILL buy it.
The most professional parody vid by far. Level of detail is insane. Image the cost if it were real. The funniest part is it had a chip for the blinds and the wand for such minimalistic function(that to during a chip shprtage) :) :)
And an AI xD
Cost of making this video? Joma unpaid
@@erikasl.7050 it will be on the blockchain
bet you it over heats.
to machine learn your behaviour xDDD
watching this gem somehow reminds me of keeping improving myself otherwise I'm gonna end up impressed and admired how dedicated and sophisticated techs Apple has put on their products.
The sneakers squeaking when he turns 😂
It’s the shoe squeaks for me
"Actually..." *squeaks* "It's even better."
hey matt
the shoe squeaks really got me 😅
If this was really apple. There would be no straight males in the announcement
It's the turtleneck for me
Two years from now, The blind’s closing and opening speed will start drastically slowing down after each new update download.
Does my $19.99 per window blind insurance cover opening and closing?
Ha..ha
And that is to help customers reducing wear and tear on the mechanical gears, allowing the product to last a even longer life.
@@frankzhang4245 Yes great point! Those Apple engineers think of everything.
@@bruceh4180 It sure does, just send us the 80% of new cost deductible along with the malfunctioning product, and we will send you a licensed refurbished replacement in 3 to 10 business days
example: $800 blindr pluss extra pluss pluss would be a deductible of $640. in rare occurrences your current color my be unavailable, in which case we will contact you and give you the option of choosing an available color, or for an up-charge of $180 we will send you a brand new unit of your original color.
the moment the beat hitting is so accurate. companies over here acting as if they're introducing you to life on mars
this just proves that to get a customer to buy your item make the ad look sophisticated
Guy asking a question only to introduce himself, mention he used to work for facebook, praise the boss for something meaningless, and then not actually ask a question. Golden.
So recognizable.
Absolute classic. These guys need to be taught speaking on a shared medium like radio
I worked with someone like that.
We're Indians what do you expect lol.
@@sugarkiddo hahaahh
Oh my god the amount of effort put into this is just mind boggling
The amount of time and effort to create the graphics for a parody. Wow!
It’s blind moggling
Legend says the team is still “working hard” to revise that paid time leave policy.
Ha. I'm right in the middle of making blinds/curtains out of canvas drop cloths with grommets and aircraft wire.
I started as a software engineer in '84 and have been in so many of these meetings/etc. over the years.
You f'n nailed it.
"The world's favorite blinds just got better as it now comes in full finishes: ivory white, eggshell white, navajo white, and off-white white" 😆
*four
Yeah, that ft me good too! Hahaha
@@jabhutt1013 *fore
Let's see Paul Allen's blinds
Ok, but what is Navajo White? 🤣
Why is this actually such high quality
Ikr! 🤣
Nord VPN apparently lol
A tech engineer can find time lol
It's his actual startup product 🤣
check his more private channel you will see
Yes, that Blindr product advert/your intro was super high quality and smooth!
Looked like a real Apple advert.
Haha, great commentary on Apple.
I do think they need AI more than a blinds company though.
😂
Don't know what Nest thermometers (now part of Alphabet) needed AI?!
And I'm an AI engineer/ML Engineer.
I just need a manual weekly schedule.
AI for thermometers is like trying to kill a fly with a mini gun!
Excited for the blind 2.0 pro max.
THAT was a masterpiece. You can actually see how a startup with a glossy pitch can get off the ground, and then fail because they don't know WTF they need to do to run a company.
Fail?
Oh, where’s your billion dollar company
@@VerySecretySecret Its a trillion $ company 😭
@@MrPanda-sy7bi $2.4T actually
@@chrisjfox8715 that much?? That’s way higher than I thought
The most realistic part of the ad:
*The Blindr tilt wand is sold separately for $249.99 😂
@Fromage LMAO
Yeah, it's so apple 😂
target is made 120 local service center in 2 years
@@missilemahmood *Blundr, never heard of Apple. Why are we talking about fruits?🤔
Anything worth buying will have the proper $250 price.
This fills me with an irrational amount of rage.
Fantastic job!
I need a behind the scene, the intro is just breathtaking goooood
I was happy with Blindr and some even called me a fanboy. But that all ended when they pushed the last update which no longer works with my windows. Customer support are telling me I have to upgrade them to 11 which for me means I'll need to change the hardware. It is for my safety apparently but I don;t buy that. I think I'll be swithing to SunSang instead. They are not nearly as beautiful but they will work even with XP windows, even the wooden ones. Moreover SunSang blinds use a block chain to adjust the angle of the blinds and are made of graphene which mitigates micro vortices better than wood.
hahahaha
"SunSunk" sounds better. But I agree, I remember, back in the days when we has Rollkia, they were everwhere. I know a guy who got his finger chopped when he got it caught in a Rollkia 3310 blinder blade
I prefer the XiaoRoll, they're cheaper but enough for my needs and aren't that bad tho
thanks for review, i just want to buy it tonight
Underrated comment.
best sponsorship integration ever. well done!
I was about to comment about it but than i saw you allready did that. :)
Damm it was even better than Linus tech tips
Linus wants to know your location
not allowed in this way in Germany without marking it as commercial
Definitely True! But I'm not sure Netflix approves... Won't that violate their ToS ?
I like how this story works with the steven collab vid, with the last interview guy eventually becoming this guy.
I thought at 1.54 Blindr' commitment to saving the earth would be - Blindr 2 allows the sunlight to reach the plants in room too. That's the key feature. May be you should highlight in Blindr 3
Holy crap this is too perfect. That subtle camera change and shoe squeak killed me 🤣
Yes. The shoe squeaks were a phenomenal touch. My favorite part by far.
He got so accurate with the CEO being so glad to announce something VERY exiting (for the company)
you read “exciting”.
That was the smoothest way to include a sponsor I've ever seen. Bravo.
I zoned out when the video started and I actually thought this was a real ad for a second until I saw Joma dressed like Steve 😂
they should make blinds that can only be closed.
you know. to prevent you from using windows.
Golden 🤣
Badum-tsss!
Good one😂
You're a legend
Nice man
🤣🤣
"We plan on leveraging our new talent by creating synergy with visibility."
He tells it like it is!
Loved that line :D its so full of nonsense it’s hilarious, Now i know what i will say whenever someone asks me about my future plans
Is like the weird al song "Mission Statement"
You have to understand, it's a privacy company, but they're creating 360 view of their customer, and now synergy with visibility. It's very well written and all connected.
Well that part isn't accurate to Apple. They do the same thing they just aren't upfront about it.
I like how it's all about the customer's "privacy" but the future plans are all about total awareness of the customers.
this has actually good sales techniques (sell the experience)
That was written so well, wow 😯
I like how Blindrs block "Windows"
Including Windows XP.
@@megalodonsnipereliteuh what? Yeah that is a windows version but that was kinda random
@@Nick12_45 you missed the pun "XP"
The production quality is amazing. Makes it that much more hilarious.
Yeah, it's part of the Apple parody! Very Well done !
Your acting is really good, and the shoes sounds when you change the camera is the best
Stopped immediately on this video and immediatly subbed before video ends. Now this is funny 🤣
I rewatched this video 3-4 times over the past month and only now noticed the annotation at 1:01 😂
Sold separately at it's best.
Ha! I missed that! Awesome!
I would never have caught it. Thank you
😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wand
The blinder adjustment stick comes separate, uses a proprietary connector, and costs $300 by itself.
Better yet: they are cryptographically signed and can be remotely revoked.
This feels way more like a Dyson commercial than an Apple one.
This is the view of a company, I want to show/display to the people. Every foolish man of the world knows about it. But the materialistic world we live in wants every premium tag product.
good work...
Wow, this feels like something exactly out of an episode of Silicon Valley. Especially once you get to the company vision part.
I just asked on another comment if that is the Pied Piper board room when the marketing team pitches the enterprise box lol
I once attended a zoom meeting where most people were very high net worth. My meeting was with one of them after the zoom meeting. And arrived early, when the zoom was going on, so he added me in it. I was there for 40 minutes, hearing all these words... synergy, vision, harmony, alliance, world poverty, climate change, and COVID ofcourse like 10 times.. it felt like they were having a meeting because they had nothing to talk about.
Yeah... + half the things doesn't make sense at all but they all agree and congratulate themselves... I work in the industrie sector, the amount of higher up that want to "push 4.0 industrie by having more talent synergies" is horrifying.
Congratulations, you successfully 'collaborated'!
This is why whatever happens you never let management on any tech call. Just have the guys doing the actual work share the specs in 5 min and be done. The second management or service gets involved it turns into a 45 min fluffing session.
Classic corporates
Sounds like Kamala Harris when she talks her word salad like when she was talking about the passage of time
Watched this again right after the release of iPhone 15. I have to admit that this show is made of gold.
Despite this being a parody at Apple, it wasn’t purposely cheap to make it funny. The renders were great, the sound, the music and the script were not half bad. It was about the clean inserts of jabs that made this hilarious.
I'm guessing that Blindr has a camera pointing inside the house that is always on and tracking, among other things, the light level so it can automatically open and close.
To open and close among …other things
... and machine learning
The irony of blinds being packed with invasive spyware is well more realistic than we thought
Gotta love how it's an Apple product covering up Windows.;)
2:23 He could have said "we are removing the heart from your chest" and I wouldnt even think twice
This was an act of sheer genius. It was more Appley than Apple itself.
I've had Blindr since the 80's and upgraded to this months model last week. I have had every Blindr model in my rooms and have now completed an update of my walls to integrate with them. (There's still a couple of walls that don't work with Blindr like the bathroom but I'm running that open source as it's a small inconvenience when the rest of the house will run smoothly once I update the floor to the current OS.
Blindr 2.4 is due in Beta next week which has been approved for an advanced few million households like mine that are on the exclusive priority friends group. As like 2.0 it is completely incompatible with all previous versions I have separated the garage from the house so I can install them stand alone with their full integration plus system.
I love the cordless move and can't wait for the Tetherpods(TM) to become available so I will also be able to open/close the units. I'm looking forward to the new gold-paladium battery system that will last 3 weeks on a factory only charge making sure no non Blindr suitable power is stored in the units.
I don't know how we put up with those old aluminium ones for 40 years that were in the house when it was built. We had to walk up to them to open/close them almost every day where now we can simply find the Tetherpods(TM), complete their daily update patch, pair them with my watch and activate the security identification then just motion them in the direction of the room with the receiver to initiate the panel lights on Blindr so I can simply touch the appropriate colour for up/down/tilt/slant/vector/aggravate/swivel/hover/yaw/flex/impede/wurble/smoo.
Once the Blindr limitations of liability, warranties and disclaimer notification has been confirmed I can let Blindr decide for me whether it feels I need the blind at another state of angular singularity.
And it all cost less than the price of my car per monthly instalment.
👨💻👩💻🧑💻
God, I'm so envious! Any chance you can send me an invitation to that friends group? PLS!
@@andreassumerauer5028 Unfortunately I am looking into another investment...
Bryk
Bryk replaces Blindr and fills areas of your wall that are leaking heat & light.
Onch you have Bryk installed, your wall becomes a solid barrier even preventing various levels of noise and near 100% of unwanted intrusion by the Eurasian harvest mouse, known to decimate entire villages with their glass melting excretions and as we all know... Oranges aren't naturally occurring fruits!
Fill YOUR walls with Bryk today!
Stop writing articles on a YT comments section?
@@KBS_ar idk if you're joking or ....
The constant camera turns and sneaker squeaks got me.😂
I honestly love the Coffee Grindr i bought on Grindr
Smoothest transition to a sponsor i have ever seen. i actually didnt want to skip it
no cap
You couldn't even skip it even it you wanted to tgf. It was too seamless.
Deadass didn't skip
joma putting that 270k salary to work
Is he gain that money?
@@bobobo1673 yep, he actually makes +200K a year, that's computer sicence money for you lol
@@biernikyghef9626 thanks for answering. but I don't know what you see as funny ...
Ha ha that’s a good catch why he Joma works though
Where does he work
😂😂😂 still come back to this for a good laugh every now and then
Like the irony that he's sitting alone in the conference as nobody wants to join him at the office and work remotely instead.
This is brilliant! The production is spot-on and looks exactly like it could be a real Apple ad, but it's the realistic corporate doublespeak, the pacing, and the slightly understated acting that makes it so good. Plus, really gutsy to lampoon such a huge name in tech. Sir, you are keeping high-class comedy alive when the world really needs it. Excellent work!
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This man is too high quality for CZcams. Needs a Netflix series 😂
true. but copied comment
@@laughingoutloud3713 who cares, hardly anything is original nowadays.
Did you just use "quality" and "Netflix" in the same phrase ?
hahahaha
"Netflix" and "High Quality", i've never seen a better sarcastic joke in just 3 sentences
this guy did better than what an Entire team from apple , took weeks maybe even months to prepare for and he probably it did alone or with a few friends .
This is the most hilarious thing I've seen for about 3 weeks🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’d actually buy these blinds
I like your vids bro
It's Blindr 🙃
Shut up and take my money!!
ME TOO hjasdhjashjdashj
Yea same tbh. Especially if they integrated with google home
“I hate my job” desk top lmaooo
where? give time stamp
@@codejupiter837 stop the video at 5:57
yo where can i grab a copy of that wallpaper???
@@emilrostobagia thanks man
hey guys where i can find the intro music in starting of this video...?
Imagine the hysteria around the blinds, the queue at the Apple store on the day of launch🤣🤣🤣
And all of that for just 9999.99 dollars and incredible price for such an incredible technology 😂
There's even a inside facing camera that is always on to make sure you are completely satisfied with your privacy
And if you tape over the camera the whole thing stops working
He packed up the sponsorship part so well that I didn't even realise it was a sponsorship until it ended
you really need to work on your awareness then. that was still pretty blatant
Yes, it was blatant and so obvious it was funny.
That was a sponsorship ?
And seeing an evil CEO hate on it makes me think it's even more of a good idea to use it...
Thanks to SponsorBlock for skipping the segment for me.
That has got to be the best product placement of a sponsor I have ever seen on youtube. Go NordVPN!
I'm a year late on your entire series that's on your CZcams.. But I'm starting to understand how Software Engineers go through and how interviews may go. I'll have to deep dive into how you began and where you're at now. This is really good btw, Blindr is the next generation of blinds for our Windows, Apple is the takeover for all homes.
“We’re not just a window-blind company, we’re a privacy company.” - Eric Wang
This is literally what Apple is. You better get your author rights secured before they stole your idea without any editing. There are a lot of people ready to buy that.
"It is also... saving the earth". The plant. Compassionate smile. I laughed.