Very good point about regulation, especially in Europe. I had not considered that angle.
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Leaked Marketing Materials for S21 Launch Confirm Samsung Won't Include Charger
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So they just need to rename it as "SIM ejection pin" right? are you really this dense?
Maybe that's the problem. I feel like if you work for a company, you should feel embarrassed when it does something embarrassing. If more people took pride in the companies they work for, then companies would be better.
Honestly, I think Galaxy phones are better than iPhones in near every way, but that phone is ugly AF.
Samsung wanted me to keep my iPhone apparently.
Samsung wanted me to keep my iPhone apparently.
In all fairness, Samsung hasn't been the copy cat of days gone by since maybe the Galaxy 5. Even in their copycat heyday, they actually produced new and innovative features even if some were a bit gimmicky (like the camera watching your eyes to scroll a page or keep the screen from going to sleep).
After they stopped copying Apple and innovated, they've actually usually surpassed Apple in design and always in features and tech.
Considering Apple is almost never 1st to market with a feature or technology, wouldn't that, dare I say, make them the copycat? Because they really are with almost every product they make. Then the fan boys will say, "But they make it work better and user experience better...."
PS. Apple was not first with SmartView cases either. That was LG.
You know what this reminds me of? Buying grey-market electronics in downtown Manhattan stores in the 1980s. "Yeah, we have that fancy Texas Instruments calculator you want. Great price." The charger that was supposed to be included is extra thus making it more expensive than if you bought it from a legit store.
I think it’s more shocking that it still draws attention. They have been doing the mock Apple and then follow them for years.
I know Samsung has a history with this....but they typically mock & wait longer before the inevitable falling in line.
If Samsung ships this without a power adapter, Apple should really call them out over it.
to be honest everyone predicted this...Top comment on the post where Samsung mocked Apple for this from October.
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Good call @edk99
I'm really not much of a fan of Apple's virtue signalling/marketing and aggressive focus on profits over user experience but Samsung really need to give up the "take the piss out of Apple's move until the year later we do the same thing" trick.
Samsung used to be stupid with their copying. They went for features that were patented. Nowadays they’re sneakier which lets them copy Apple even more.
It’s more brazen and subtler at the same time so some might miss it, but their strategy and marketing is see what Apple does and try that.
Apple isn’t always first with features but when that happens their approach is look for things that would make a great product or fit into their existing ecosystem, sometimes steal ideas too, yes. But Samsung is 99% do what Apple does.
Btw, I think HTC had smart view cases even before LG, I remember a pixel dot matrix one and maybe more versions. It’s been done for years. The thing is, guess when Samsung decides to release their own version?
I have a feeling they will provide an option of a coupon to optionally get the charger if you really need one.
I bought toilet paper today. There were 20 brands, each with a ton of meaningless numbers of the packaging. This must be what buying an Android phone feels like.
I can't help myself......why oh why did you not post:
"That's what I call HY-PO-CRI-SY in capital letters."
Totally bugging me!! 🤣😆
I agree and disagree. In some ways I think the larger thing here is who makes something mainstream and then how that mainstream feature is copied....so in the beginning obviously the ENTIRE industry was playing catch up with Apple and the smartphone concept. That was to be expected but the copying was egregious and Samsung specifically was shameless! In the past several years I would say it has been Apple bringing features into the iOS ecosystem that others have had for a while. However, it does seem to be their "version" of it. I think to contrast that you can look at "Samsung Pay". I mean, the market was certainly not new anymore. Google had Google Wallet for a while and this type of system has been around long before Apple releases Apple Pay. But Apple does release Apple Pay and makes it mainstream. Then what happens? Rather than Google sticking to Google Wallet and just adding features to that, they make Google Pay. Rather than Samsung getting their marketing team to make their version of it, enhance and make it better, they just copycat the name as much as legally possible to ride the Apple Pay bandwagon. For me, and maybe others, THAT is why Samsung gets the eye roll. Not because it is bad that everyone in the industry eventually adopts features of their competitors (that happens in all industries), it is just the WAY that Samsung does it.