This dispute is just in India where they have specific rules about comparative advertising.
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Apple and Samsung Push Back Against Xiaomi's Bold India Ads
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I always thought the Justin Long and John Hodgman Mac vs PC ads were cringe, but I won't deny they were effective.
My favourite Apple ad of all time is a Mac vs PC ad though, this one:
I have never seen that ad, but the opposite of that situation is exactly what happened to my wife when she was in law school (around 2004). She was working on something on a borrowed Mac laptop and something happened and it lost the current document, and the saved copy of it she had been working on for days was corrupted.
She refused to ever use Apple again after that, and has stuck to it. She is a die-hard Pixel user, and only uses Windows computers and a Surface tablet.
I thought he the rule of photography was "It's not the camera, it's the person behind the camera"?
Leica co-engineered them so Xiaomi used the Leica brand but I seriously doubt Leica makes the glass.
Every Leica lens / camera I have used over the years have been very good quality. Maybe Apple and Samsung need to step up their specs?
Also: the best camera is the one you have with you
I don't know man, I'm definitely not even close to being a photographer (not even a hobbyist), but I do own a Canon M50 for when I go on a trip or something and want to take photos. The photos iPhones take are ultra processed, I really dislike what my 14 Pro captures. The last phone camera I did enjoy was maybe iPhone 4S or 5. Anyways, I'm really not a photography oriented person but I though people who are hobbyist in this field use real dedicated cameras and I always considered iPhones to be heavily marketed point and shoot at best with really heavy image processing. Like, having 16e camera in an iPhone today would be 100% enough for me personally, gigantic lenses on phones are obnoxious in my opinion.
Yep, I get that, for a lot of people, the camera is the most important thing on their phone, but, to be honest, I'm not a huge photography enthusiast.
It's why, in the end I got an iPhone 16 not a 16 pro. I realized I wouldn't really get any extra value out of having more and better cameras, and I would be happier not having such a massive camera bump.
I still don't really get why Apple puts rear-facing cameras on iPads.
As someone who owns a full frame mirrorless camera with many high quality lenses, I both agree and disagree. Smartphones are a lot more capable than what they're given credit for, and they make great substitutes for the point and shoot cameras of yesteryear. If I'm traveling somewhere that I know I'm going to want great shots I will absolutely pack my full gear, but it's also handy to have a high quality camera that I have on me at all times. But I also enjoy spending hours doing editing in post to get things just to my liking, which is not everyone's cup of tea.
I own a Nikon mirrorless camera, so I don't disagree with that part of your statement. However, I would buy this in a heartbeat if there was a U.S. version for the convenience of having a 1" sensor point-and-shoot with me everywhere I go.
Same, and not only that they put the cameras there (which I sort of accept as being necessary for video calls, you know), but why make it so large? They could just as well put some simple single lense camera for the basic task it needs to do. I can't wrap my head around the fact that the iPad simply doens't lay flat on the table because of this obnoxiously large and completely unnecessary camera bump. An iPhone 5 camera would do the job.
snowflakes! don’t mock us because we don’t have something in our sleeves to be proud of…aside from our innovative iPhone colors which definitely our costumers loved them
The ads look good to me. Also, I really wish we were still allowed to let Chinese phones compete in the US. Not that I may not still carry an iPhone, but I would like our market to actually be free.
These ads aren't that different from what Apple used to do with its Mac vs PC campaigns.
*Flips back in memory to Mac vs PC campaign*
Sounds like someone's feeling the pressure from Asian competitors
Sounds like someone's feeling the pressure from Asian competitors