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Microsoft Posts Anti-Apple Windows Phone Videos of Questionable Taste [Update: Removed]

Battlefield Fan said:
Don't get me wrong, if I had a 4s and my contract was up then I would upgrade because it's built off a great foundation. That being said their competition still has better hardware but their software and OS suck.
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So what is better about the hardware of the competition? What does it do better, faster, easier?
 
Ashin said:
Devil's advocate here -

A few days ago you were laughing at a cheap joke about "100% Android free iPhone".

Now, this ad comes along and you all **** your pants? Double standards much?

They never even call him Steve... they call him Tim...

It's YOU GUYS saying it looks like Steve Jobs...
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but come on. watch it here http://youtu.be/20LgureMuWo you can obviously see that Microsoft is really making a mistake! How dumb!
 
chr1s60 said:
More pathetic stuff from Microsoft. Do they realize how hard they're trying and failing?

As for people acting like the 5s was supposed to be something great, this is what Apple always does. The S series phones are usually spec bumps with one new feature that isn't anything must have or ground breaking. If the iPhone 6 isn't impressive next year, then they deserve some criticism.
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"Spec Bumps"? The fingerprint security feature and new camera functions on a device this size is mind-blowing and will have significant impact on the future. BTW, Apple isn't known for creating 'new' stuff. What they do best is make technology user-friendly. If you look at Apple to come up with totally new technology every quarter, you are looking in the wrong direction and will be forever disappointed. The masses don't purchase Apple products because they're new technology. They buy them because they solve problems and make life better and easier. I'm personally looking forward to using my fingerprint with the iPhone to prove my identity for most everything down the road, and saving me untold hours of fixing up my photos without using Photomatrix and Photoshop.
 
AT06 said:
I'm no expert, although I do have a new Canon 6D full frame camera, and I can tell you that 8MP is more than enough for a phone. Apple are right, if you want better picture quality then improving the lens and the size of the pixels is the way to go.
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Absolutely right. The complainers posting are just showing everyone how they are unable to understand or fathom what Apple has created. It's sad to see so many people operating in the dark.
 
BlockEight88 said:
I gotta agree with the ad. What the hell has Apple been doing the last 6 months? But unfortunately, the iPhone 5C/S will not flop. People will once again line up in droves like nice little iSheep. I don't understand it. They're not bad phones, but their not innovative.
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Maybe people don't care about innovation as much as a solid phone that gets the job done?

I don't get why some people think just because someone likes an Apple product that that suddenly makes them "iSheep".
 
Apple:

1) Great job on the iPhone 5s. You make the best products in the world, and this 11-inch macbook air I type on now is the slickest portable in existence.

2) Stop patronizing us.

A) Don't make a product video for the 5C. Don't use the phrase "unapologetically plastic." The emperor is wearing no clothes. Or should we say the same emperor put on some colorful clothes and is dancing around saying "I'm a new emperor. And I put on some weight."

B) Don't act like iRadio reinvents the radio. Pandora did that. You're playing catch up. Spotify has already vastly outdone you. Not to mention that iTunes is more cumbersome to use than it was 5 years ago. Spotify receives $10/month from me due to your failure to innovate in this realm. Admitting where you've fallen short is classier than pretending to have come out with something fresh.

3) This is the first year in the history of iPod that you didn't update any one of your iPods. The last two years, you made your nano worse and worse. Not that you're obligated too, but iPod improvements are exciting for people who can't afford iPhones.

4) Don't use the phrase "Innovation my ass" after previewing a long overdue Mac Pro just because it's in the shape of a glass cylinder. Innovation speaks louder when it's not spoken.

Thanks.
 
chrono1081 said:
Maybe people don't care about innovation as much as a solid phone that gets the job done?

I don't get why some people think just because someone likes an Apple product that that suddenly makes them "iSheep".
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Look at the people who get the cheap android phones en masse - not exactly the most successful or brightest bulbs... k?

they honestly can't help their ignorance.
 
What I found sick about that video, was how the second man represented SJ. Microsoft in the words of Jobs himself Microsoft, you have no taste.
 
kis said:
How can a big corporation such as Apple release the same phone 3 years in a row and raise the prices by 100$ every time? But if I read some of the comments here, I think I know why they keep getting away with it.
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How are they raising the price by $100 every time? The price has stayed the same, with the base price being $199 on contract for the last, what, 4 or 5 years?

As far as releasing the same phone, there were big design changes from the 3GS to the 4. 4S to the 5, and I'm sure we'll see big changes to the 6 in a year's time.
 
kis said:
Most people? Most OS X users, you mean - especially those, who hadn't seen a PC from up close in 10 years. The Mac vs. PC ads heavily relied on opinions formed years before when Windows actually did suck. That had long changed however and while the ads were clearly much more expensive, they were just as dumb as Microsoft's
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No. You have NO idea wtf you are talking about... do your parents know you come here & post? Adults are having a conversation, ok? Obviously before your time, there was a sucky OS called Vista. THAT is when the Mac vs. PC ads ran. They were relevant to people that NEVER used OSX.... that was the point. Lol, did you and your middle school friends when you found those videos on YouTube last week really think they had came out after Windows 7??
 
giantfan1224 said:
How are they raising the price by $100 every time? The price has stayed the same, with the base price being $199 on contract for the last, what, 4 or 5 years?

As far as releasing the same phone, there were big design changes from the 3GS to the 4. 4S to the 5, and I'm sure we'll see big changes to the 6 in a year's time.
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Agreed.

Also, the price has actually dropped since iPhones initially came out. Anyone remember paying $600 or so for their original iPhones? I do, and then Apple gave me a reimbursement of $100 gift card not too much later when they decided to reduce the price of the phones.
 
Sad. Pathetic.

Maybe spend less time trying to come up with marketing campaigns to poke fun at your superior contemporaries, and more time coming up with unique, quality products people actually care about.
 
ronjon10 said:
What phones are innovative these days?

- Making a screen bigger isn't innovation.
- Using a better camera isn't innovation

The retina displays were the last innovative thing that has happened to any smart phone, even that can be considered to be not more than a spec bump.

Prior to that, the App Store was the most innovative thing ever to be introduced to phones. Even the original iPhone could be considered as being not more than a huge improvement over existing smartphones. The App store made the phone functional in ways that even Apple didn't dream about. That was innovation.

Smartphones have moved beyond innovation stage and will see little more than spec bumps for a long, long time.
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Ahh, some sanity! And I've seen more than one post today that echoes these sentiments, which happen to be 100% true.

For too long, the inmates have been running the asylum and ironically, distorting reality that a list of useless gimmicks on an advert equals innovation. Too many angry teenagers on Internet forums moaning about things they can't begin to understand, yet it has somehow become accepted common wisdom because people tend to believe what they read.

Don't stop spreading reason and truth, guys, these kids have a lot of time on their hands! :)
 
shiseiryu1 said:
Let me help out the marketing departments for makers of Android and M$ phones: we don't want an ad with "fighting robots" or "dancing hipsters" or anything else. Instead, how about just show us why YOUR product is worth buying?! Even if you were to convince me that Apple products are bad (which you won't) it still wouldn't convince me that YOUR products are good!

All of these millions of dollars spent on various campaigns and they still haven't conveyed to me why I would ever want to buy an Android or M$ phone. What a waste.
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I would agree with your assessment if Samsung (I think that's who you're referencing with Android) and Microsoft were only trying to convince you. While I would say Microsoft's money hasn't been well spent, Samsung has gotten a return on every marketing dollar they've spent... and then some.

Besides, marketing schemes like this aren't for convincing the die hard fans to change. They're for the undecided.
 
Everyone here is way too serious. They were funny.

Well, I only saw two, gotta look for some re-posts to see the others.
 
Jovian9 said:
Agreed.

Also, the price has actually dropped since iPhones initially came out. Anyone remember paying $600 or so for their original iPhones? I do, and then Apple gave me a reimbursement of $100 gift card not too much later when they decided to reduce the price of the phones.
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Off-contract prices have gone up in countries other than the US.
 
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