Be together, not the same.

We all know what that slogan hints at. I need not spell it out. Beyond the jab at Apple, the commercial brings to light that everyone can use Android — not just nerds, geeks, and elites… everyone. The commercial not only highlights that fact, it celebrates it. This was Google’s way of saying, “We support the human race in all its wonderful colors, shapes, sizes, and forms!”

Finally, there’s an advertisement that bridges the platform to the people and not just devices. Why is that important? Because, unlike iOS, Android is much more than the sum total of the devices it powers. Android is community, flexibility, and (to some extent) openness. Android gives a power to the people the likes that only one other platform has to offer — Linux. So, it makes perfect sense that Google finally created an advertisement to celebrate the joie de vivre so thoroughly woven through the fabric of Android.

Google doesn’t need to pimp a piece of hardware, it only needs to put on display what Android can do for the individual and for the masses — together, not the same. It sums it all up so elegantly. With Android, you can come together without losing that which makes you you. Read more.