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Lol. New samsung commercial

Personally Samsung can do whatever they want it's nothing to me because I want iOS and its apps ecosystem.

This is like the Mac vs PC argument. You can build a killer desktop PC with two CPU sockets, SLI'd graphics, 512GB of RAM. Things Apple do not offer. But it's not about that is it? It's about the overall product.

The Hardware is just a vessel for the user experience. The operating system and associated services are what matters when using the product.

A rocket is faster than a luxury sedan but you're not going to take one to work. It's all about the overall product and not just any one thing.

Some of my friends have the Samsung phones and the first thing they've all done is remove Touch Wiz and uninstall the bloatware that Samsung puts on there. Some of them even switched away from Samsung to HTC M8's not because the hardware was better but because in their opinions the user experience was. Software matters.

And even if we forget all this and play Samsungs game just focusing on who got to a large screen first, well who got a finger print scanner first? Samsungs one doesn't even work properly so it shows rushing in straight away like they did to copy Touch ID wasn't a good idea. Apple waits until they can do something well and I think that is what they did this time around with the larger screens.

Don't forget what the people who had hands on time with the phones said, it's a big phone (6 Plus) but it doesn't feel big, due to the curved cover glass and body. Apple didn't do a block shape like Samsung for a reason.
 
pish6969 said:
In theory they are correct which makes these commercials funny. That being said. Anyone that's used samsungs and iPhones knows the experience is just smoother in every aspect with iphone.

That being said. I appreciate Samsung poking the bear. Just wish Apple would step up a little spec wise to go with their awesome ecosystem
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The thing is that apple just chuckles at the commercials. They are still far outselling while samsung tries to break into apples' share by making supposed funny expensive commercials. Amusing the bear, perhaps.
 
zone23 said:
I just love how Samsung specifically calls out Apple. They are unlike any other company in the world and thats why a dislike them so much. When have you seen Pepsi call out Coke and say things about the product, never. Ford doesn't do it, Nike doesn't do it only Samsung.
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How can anyone ever forget the first "Big Brother" 1985 Macintosh ad aimed directly at IBM at the time. Ad Hominem but still ad worthy these days also.
 
Samsung tries to load their phones with every imaginable feature possible. If Samsung phones were a rifle, it would look like this:

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I just watched the commercial, and they had the nerve to say the 6+ looks like a Galaxy Note 2.

Smh. When Samsung was sued for copying Apple designs.
 
eoblaed said:
They're ahead of their competition.

No one uses NFC on samsung phones. I've yet to see a single person anywhere use an NFC capable phone to make payments. Why? Because the implementation is shoddy, there's no financial infrastructure in place, bank/card support is minimal at best.

Since the iPhone 6 announcement, I've received emails and in-app notifications from three of my banks that ApplePay is coming, get ready, it'll be awesome, etc.

This is doing it right. This is why Apple waits on these things. I know other manufacturers like to clutter their toy devices with the chip-du-jour just to say they did, but if you can't/won't use it, what's the point?
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It's more likely that Android owners think 'meh' and reach for their debit card to pay for goods. Apple releases the same kind of system and rams it down everyones' throat as being some sort of killer feature and all the Appleheads salivate at being able to flash their iPhones at cashiers. Really it's a nothing feature, making something out of very little and to think that some are upgrading their 5S purely for this feature! Until the time that Applepay is the only means of purchasing goods, it will remain a 'meh' feature. Big deal, you'll be able to use it at 15-25% of outlets you visit. So you'll still need to carry cash and cards. GIMMICK.
 
regazoid said:
How can anyone ever forget the first "Big Brother" 1985 Macintosh ad aimed directly at IBM at the time. Ad Hominem but still ad worthy these days also.
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Yep well how long ago was that, is it still on? No? Well that doesnt seem to be significant really. A commercial thats no longer on the air.
 
sunking101 said:
It's more likely that Android owners think 'meh' and reach for their debit card to pay for goods. Apple releases the same kind of system and rams it down everyones' throat as being some sort of killer feature and all the Appleheads salivate at being able to flash their iPhones at cashiers. Really it's a nothing feature, making something out of very little and to think that some are upgrading their 5S purely for this feature! Until the time that Applepay is the only means of purchasing goods, it will remain a 'meh' feature. Big deal, you'll be able to use it at 15-25% of outlets you visit. So you'll still need to carry cash and cards. GIMMICK.
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That's not what the Android-fans have been saying for the last few years as they whined and complained that iOS didn't have NFC. Now as soon as it does, it's nothing and a gimmick...? I mean, I understand if your opinion is different, but you have to acknowledge the fact that Apple was consistently getting **** over not having it.
 
I just don't get what this commercial is supposed to do from a marketing standpoint. It won't change the opinions of diehard android or Apple users.
 
It's a sad fact of Samesung not feeling confident enough to be able to advertise their own products without comparing them to their superior competitor, but this is what truly makes them pathetic:
 

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The commercials are funny. Apple sells more because they have a fan base like many of us on here who will buy whatever they put out. Doesn't mean that the Samsung commercial isn't true..
 
pish6969 said:
In theory they are correct which makes these commercials funny. That being said. Anyone that's used samsungs and iPhones knows the experience is just smoother in every aspect with iphone.

That being said. I appreciate Samsung poking the bear. Just wish Apple would step up a little spec wise to go with their awesome ecosystem
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The ad they showed during the NFL games today was not funny. It was pretty much "just the facts, ma'am" and boring. I said it in a previous post, I'll repeat it -- The Onion site did a much better ribbing of the iPhone 6 and event than Samsung. They were actually funny. Samsung, just looks whiney and desperate.
 
The Doctor11 said:
That ad is basically them saying the iPhone and Galaxy are the same. They never told me why its so good they gave me fake tweets. Not impressed.
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The ad basically was telling you that Samsung has been innovating, accurately guessing the trend since 2012 when it was stilled ridiculed for it. They were right and therefore you should trust them.
 
regazoid said:
How can anyone ever forget the first "Big Brother" 1985 Macintosh ad aimed directly at IBM at the time. Ad Hominem but still ad worthy these days also.
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LOL ya how could I not have thought of that..

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stix666 said:
May have been before your time but the Pepsi Challenge was big in its heyday. Ordinary Joes blind-tasted two colas and ended up surprised that the one they preferred was Pepsi, not Coke
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Maybe thats why I drink Pepsi instead of Coke.. wait its the taste, never mind. I might actually remember.
 
rambo47 said:
Shows you how worried they are about Apple. You don't see Apple poking fun at their competitors. Apple just keeps cranking out great products and lauding their own features.
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Apple's whole branding strategy to get Mac's back to relevance was to attack Microsoft - many times Windows by name. It was brilliant marketing that worked so well it's not needed anymore. Mac's have the mind share among those US customers who aren't forced to use Windows for work, etc...

Samsung's attempts won't work because their product is inferior but the marketing approach itself is taking a page out of an old Apple playbook.
 
sunking101 said:
It's more likely that Android owners think 'meh' and reach for their debit card to pay for goods. Apple releases the same kind of system and rams it down everyones' throat as being some sort of killer feature and all the Appleheads salivate at being able to flash their iPhones at cashiers. Really it's a nothing feature, making something out of very little and to think that some are upgrading their 5S purely for this feature! Until the time that Applepay is the only means of purchasing goods, it will remain a 'meh' feature. Big deal, you'll be able to use it at 15-25% of outlets you visit. So you'll still need to carry cash and cards. GIMMICK.
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Of course Android users think 'meh' and reach for their cards. You just made half my point: The Android implementation is severely lacking in usability and financial institution support.

As for the rest, I'm guessing you don't pay attention to the news.

The beginning of this year (well, December) Target was the target of a credit card reader hack that saw millions of credit/debit cards potentially compromised. It meant that millions of people, myself included, had our existing cards cancelled or severely neutered right around the holiday and had to get new cards with new numbers issued. This was not only dangerous (everyone had to monitor their card activity daily/hourly to make sure it wasn't being used by someone else), it was also a major pain in the butt. My card was effectively useless for an extended period of time. Automated bill payments all come to a halt until you change everything to match your new card, and so on.

And, the morning of the frickin' iPhone 6 keynote, news agencies started reporting that an almost identical thing happened to Home Depot: their card machines were infected with malware that compromised tons of cards. The fallout from this has yet to be fully determined.

The kind of NFC tech that Apple has implemented makes this a non-issue. Single use hash tokens that are useless after the purchase and zero identifiable information transmitted during the transaction mean it doesn't matter if someone gathers data from the readers.

The magnetic strip technology is half a century old and highly insecure, as we get proven to us over and over. This is why the banks are jumping all over this as well, they're the ones on the hook financially when these sorts of breaches occur.

This isn't a gimmick. This isn't 'meh'. This is something that's been needed for a long time, and the more credit card breaches that occur at point of sale locations, the more people will be able to look past their biases and realize that, yes, a secure, private non-card based solution is the way to go.
 
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