Samsung Targets Apple Maps with New Promotional Display in Australia

[apolloa]

hahahahahaha... Apple got served! And they fully deserved it too!

this is good clever advertising, I mean Apple has used the corrupt biased American patent system and courts and to an extent government to gain market share and profit margins because it can..

Samsung are just using the advertising opportunity offered to them by Apple's mistakes to gain market share and profits...

It's called business, so stop winging over it!

 

[miamiFLMac]

How it is any different than the Windows/Mac ads??

The Apple ads are done intelligently and funny. Samsung is doing it like a scorned lover and are not funny.

 

[iChrist]

The Apple ads are done intelligently and funny.

false

 

[perealb]

No, they only care about the customers' money like any other corporation.

It's true what you said but it's unrelated to what I said.

Can they afford to? Samsung is openly mocking apple USERS.

So it is me who is made fun of for owning an iphone and not the guy next to me with the htc or the nokia...

See the difference?

I see your point but I don't think they answer it directly - nothing better than responding them by making superior products. I personally think that they do. Some people don't think so. To each their own.

 

[840quadra]

Apple has had similar cheeky ad campaigns in the past. Competition at it's best?

Perhaps not,

But, in the world of cutting edge tech companies, someone has to give up a little blood here and there.

 

[scapegoat123456]

Strawmanning sucked then, and it still sucks now

 

[apolloa]

Why dignify Samsung's silly ads with a response?

Well, I made the mistake of dignifying Apple's knowingly disaster of a joke brocken maps app by purchasing an iPhone... so why not comment on a samsung advert?

 

[vannibombonato]

Good Campaign

I'm an Apple fan,
but this is very good advertising.

Funny, simple and to the point, Apple style.

Samsung is improving a lot in their campaigning, their agency and the guys in Samsung approving the ads are getting better!

The day we'll see Apple responding directly will be a bad day, as rule #1 when you are the leader is not to recognize the other guy as someone at your level by playing down at its level.

 

[kis]

True, and that's why Android has a 70% market share.

 

[BlueParadox]

BRLawyer is correct, Australian domestic policy is based on being a good little supplier for China. So I think is an accurate description to call Australia a mining colony.

Look, even the DJs can cause international embarrassment with self-serving pranks, and the people there love it. Then they proceed to drive into the middle of nowhere and almost get killed. Really. Is a funny place down there.

Really got to laugh at the complete superficiality of this post. It's morning here in Australia, and you've probably given me the biggest chuckle for the entire day.

 

[OtherJesus]

Samsung are so OBSESSED with Apple.

Exactly. As if Google Maps is perfect. It's so laughable how people act like Google has never, ever, ever, ever gotten them lost before.

 

[Tech198]

lol.

Good Job Samsung...

Its the principal of it... Apple should have got it right... While no map is perfect first time, this only adds fear to the fix. Apple would defiantly think *twice* before doing this again. Add to the fact that Samsung and Apple are still "not friends" yet... So, its only natural for these two companies to pick up on every detail that goes wrong.

I mean, this just gives a good reason for Apple to "push harder" now its all public anyway..

Its media.... It happens anyway...

 

[///M Powah]

Well it's also true that Samsung builds missiles that kill people. And despite it being true, you don't see Apple running bloody war torn advertisements that state the truth, that if you buy a Samsung phone, you are funding a company that builds weapons to kill women and children.

Mens don't count?

 

[russellb]

It is very different

How it is any different than the Windows/Mac ads??

While I love my Iphone and I also like Apple maps less Apples slow response to correcting user notified map errors.

I also think this Samsung campaign is great , nothing wrong with a fun tongue in cheek poke at a competitor.

However where I think this is very very different is that Apple maps at its core is a great app , much better than the non vector google maps (map content not withstanding) and Apples turn by turn implementation is fantastic I prefer it to my Tom Tom app.

Whats missing is the data which we all know is a short term problem that will be fixed , not fast enough we all know, but it will be fixed and we will be left with a great map app.

On the other hand the PC V Mac adds that Apple ran were poking fun at a genuine long term decade plus problems with PC's that all PC users would have to admit to. Crashes, Blue Screens of death, Virus and malware etc etc.

 

[phillipduran]

Childish

Relevant.

 

[lilo777]

Well it's also true that Samsung builds missiles that kill people. And despite it being true, you don't see Apple running bloody war torn advertisements that state the truth, that if you buy a Samsung phone, you are funding a company that builds weapons to kill women and children.

There are many Samsungs. The one we are talking about here is Samsung Electronics which is a publicly traded company (just like Apple) and has nothing to do with the missiles (or ships to that matter).

 

[AppleScruff1]

Childish

Almost as childish as Steve saying, "You're holding it wrong" with the iPhone antenna problem!

 

[dalbir4444]

It's true what you said but it's unrelated to what I said.

The person you replied to said

Interesting how Samsung openly mocks Apple customers and Apple does nothing about it...

So I was replying in that context. It's not odd that Apple doesn't do anything. Why should they?

 

[Plutonius]

All I have to say is where is google maps already??? 'Nuff of this crap.

Google is doing much better off not releasing an app which is why I doubt we will see one soon.

 

[OliverOSX93]

Samsung need their own brand identity rather than just slagging off apple. Talk about being a b***h! :hick: %D

 

[packerfan43042]

made me lol

 

[Alistair]

Not on any of the maps that anyone here has submitted as an error. I am sure they are working on it. Perhaps they are starting with locations in Madagascar.

I live in the UK. I used the Maps app to report some low quality images of a fairly rural location and they fixed it. Also, the maps of where I live are both higher quality and a number of years newer than Google's.

 

[dalbir4444]

Well it's also true that Samsung builds missiles that kill people. And despite it being true, you don't see Apple running bloody war torn advertisements that state the truth, that if you buy a Samsung phone, you are funding a company that builds weapons to kill women and children.

Wow. Reaching quite a bit there, aren't you? I'm still not sure why people are so offended.

 

[kas23]

You don't think Apple is working on Maps? They haven't made that abundantly clear in plenty of statements and press releases?

So, what exactly has Apple done to improve their maps? Please list the corrections.

 

[Oletros]

Funny I don't see the police warning people not to use the original Australian Gazeteer.

Perhaps they don't warn because it is accurate