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New Samsung Ads Poke Fun at Apple Live Stream Issues, iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

Juan007 said:
Ridiculous and disgusting. Samsung should be ashamed.
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I'm sure that all those iPhone 5.5" buyers are praising Apple for somehow making a phone longer than a Note 4 with only 16GB of memory and the same improved 8mp camera. Pretty sure that 3.5" and 4" owners are jumping for joy.
 
sujithgokul said:
Samsung is the BUTTERFACE of phones. It has got bigger screen, multi tasking etc etc. BUT IT IS SAMSUNG!!!
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The main thing they have going for them is that their screens are better than everyone else's (since they don't sell their latest displays to any competition.) But otherwise, the phone isn't that attractive and they bloat Android far too much with their experimental software. They need to take a cue from Motorola in the software department.
 
Now that the iPhone has a big display, Samsung has no other competitive advantage, other than maybe forcing carriers to up-sell the non-techies at their retail stores by offering massive discounts/rebates.

Next up, the Samsung watch will have a digital crown, and the Samsung phones will get rid of the chamfered edges in favor of a 'seamless' display/body.
 
Apple use to make equally stupid ads about Windows. But at least when Apple did it, it was funny. Samsung's ads are just awkward.

It's also sad that they mocked the live stream. It's like they're admitting that they were sitting around watching it and getting frustrated everytime it stops.
 
These ads reflect how desperate samsung has become. They're no longer the huge android player they were, they are now the TROLL in the room.

Other companies are selling plenty without even mentioning apple, the only way is down for Samsung right now. The announcement from apple of larger screens and watches tramples over the ground samsung was occupying, this really will be the mother of all upgrade cycles.

Why samsung feels this AD campaign is the right way to go about countering their market share falling, shows how headless the company strategy is. They really don't have a scooby.
 
proline said:
I watched sections of it afterwards. Amazing how much Samsung hates women, yet how little publicity they get for it. One of the 'characters' in the S4 keynote was a harmless woman who the emcee would tell to shut up in a gay voice every time she tried to speak. It was disgusting on so many levels.
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Link + Time?
 
aluren said:
Next up, the Samsung watch will have a digital crown, and the Samsung phones will get rid of the chamfered edges in favor of a 'seamless' display/body.
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Samsung just looks like a copy cat and out of step with design fashions. It's what you get when your business is based on what other makers are doing.
 
Resseh said:
It would hurt consumers more - there are quite a few people who will return their MacBook until they get one with a Samsung ssd or screen. Samsung make decent components
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Those people are few and stupid, nobody is going to stop buying macs when they stop using samsung SSD/LCDs
 
caliko said:
This commercial makes no sense to me.

Also is mocking Apples streaming issues suppose to promote Sammy's products somehow?
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It's the equivalent to a school bully. He/she doesn't make fun of your homework, but will laugh till the end of the day about you tripped up when walking home.

The sad truth is that few (if any) of these "commercials" will make it on to prime time TV or even in the eyes of folk who don't follow tech. Therefore, each one is like a personal insult that's just being flung around.
 
I don't get it...

Apple had difficulty with their live stream.... so you should buy a Samsung phone?

I wonder if Samsung realizes that the reason the stream broke was because TOO MANY people were trying to watch it? OMG the horror!!!

It's almost as bad as Samsung making fun of people standing in line for Apple's newest phone. The side-effect of that is... Apple sells millions of them that first day because of the line.

Yeah Samsung... make fun of those lines... :rolleyes:


Oh no... Apple's newest phone doesn't have a pen.

Guess what... MOST phones don't have a pen. There were 300 million smartphones shipped last quarter... how many of them had a pen?

I find it difficult to fault Apple for not having a certain feature... when MOST phones don't either.

Hey Samsung... your pen is great... but how's your fingerprint sensor working out for you?
 
Apple mocked Windows back in the day

I can't see anything bad about this. I found the ads funny. Anyway, Samsung made a point.
 
Glassed Silver said:
More of this please, seriously.
Apple needs all the flak they can get obviously before they start working on their streams.

It's always a mess, this time however it has been a disaster.

I eventually waited for the podcast to appear, since I wanted 1080p whilst I was at not watching live I had to wait "a little longer"... (which means I just finished watching it an hour ago.....)

Seriously, Apple needs to step it up here, I'm willingly watching their marketing, at least make it comfortable and easy!

Glassed Silver:mac
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Bold: Erm..., no it's not, WWDC 2014 was flawless, at least for me, not a single hick up in that stream.

But, I do agree this one was a complete F-up.
 
Most viewed stream ever!

I don't know the numbers, but I believe this was probably the most viewed live stream ever!! how many hundred million? Samsung on the other hand if it ever had a live stream presentation I bet all was working fine, with 50 employees watching and a few hundred lost users on the internet.
 
The Bigger Screen ad is spot on! Touché. Everyone who can't see that is more than neck deep in Macsand.
 
Well the stream was absolutely **** so I don't see what the problem is. Apple users can't take a joke when it's on them.

Are you guys forgetting the jibes Apple made at the beginning of the presentation? He who cast the first stone .... and all that crap. Ivory tower business this.

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TheRainKing said:
Apple use to make equally stupid ads about Windows. But at least when Apple did it, it was funny. Samsung's ads are just awkward.

It's also sad that they mocked the live stream. It's like they're admitting that they were sitting around watching it and getting frustrated everytime it stops.
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You weren't frustrated?

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alexgowers said:
These ads reflect how desperate samsung has become. They're no longer the huge android player they were, they are now the TROLL in the room.

Other companies are selling plenty without even mentioning apple, the only way is down for Samsung right now. The announcement from apple of larger screens and watches tramples over the ground samsung was occupying, this really will be the mother of all upgrade cycles.

Why samsung feels this AD campaign is the right way to go about countering their market share falling, shows how headless the company strategy is. They really don't have a scooby.
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The exact same argument can be applied to Windows vs OSX. Apple were trolling VISTA, morning, noon and night. When a company sees weakness they pounce, Apple and Samsung are no different in that respect.
 
Stanick said:
No, actually it was a bad Javascript and a mistaken dub. Let's face it. It was a disaster.
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Oh poo... you spoiled my fun!

You're right... it was a disaster. I got over it almost immediately though.

Samsung must think that the last 7 generations of iPhones can be undone by a faulty two-hour live stream. "You work in technology, you can't handle this? Unbelievable..."

Is that why they made this "commercial" ?
 
I hate Samsung buy thank god their are there I'd probably still be waiting for a bigger screen iPhone..

Apple does need to watch crap like this as they need to get their ***** together, the lamest keynote ever..does Tim C really talk like that all the time..
 
Thank you for writing this. I was going to write very much the same explanation. It drives me nuts when I read stupid comments about how Apple doesn't care about the customer and only does what it wants from ignorant know-it-alls who don't get technology.

Apple very much cares about the customer. In fact they care enough to actually CREATE something amazing instead of just copying someone else's hard work. And sometimes one makes choices in order to bring something to market that later impact other design decisions, as you thoughtfully explained in regards to screen size.

Jvanleuvan said:
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding of apple's position on larger screens. Adding more screen sizes is not as simple for apple and iOS as it is for android.

To understand why, you have to think back to the iPhone 1, and iPhone OS;

I think people today forget how revolutionary that device was; it was a nearly desktop-class OS experience, optimized for touch running in the palm of your hand.

What people also forget, or perhaps never knew, was how little CPU power the iPhone 1 had. And YET it still was so smooth that you would hardly ever notice any stuttering or lag.

Even a few years LATER, android, on MUCH better hardware was nowhere near as smooth.(do people remember project butter?)

So how did iOS achieve this performance on such weak hardware? By making specific software decisions in the name of performance. One of these is the fixed pixel layout of the apps.

The original iOS had no real automatic layout feature (probably due to performance). Nothing was scaled.

Soon the new App Store was filled with apps based on this fixed layout design.


The next step for apple was to increase the screen resolution, to something much sharper. They could have gone with 720p or some other standard, but that would cause problems with the existing apps. They would need to be fractionally scaled, which would produce UGLY results.

So apple went with the logical resolution, 2x in each direction. 4x the number of pixels and a simple 2 times scaling which produce perfect scaling for existing apps.


Then when there was a need for a screen size increase, apple could have added width AND height, but, again this would be a problem for existing apps; so, instead apple only added height so existing apps could be "letter boxed" and not scaled at all.

It was at this time apple added an autolayout feature to iOS and recommended all developers begin using it. However with thousands of apps in the App Store, this transition wasn't going to happen overnight. So apple had to wait until it felt most of the apps had made the transition to autolayout. Then it would be time to allow apple to use any sized screen they wanted.

Which is what we are getting now with the iPhone 6

This frequently happens with software that is ahead of its time; compromises have to be made to bring the future to today, but soon, hardware advances, and those same compromises that made the paradigm possible are now more of a liability, especially if you need to maintain backward comparability.
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Well, these were just bad. I get what they are shooting for, but these just don't work. It's like watching bad comedy, not funny and makes you feel a bit unnerved.
 
Terrible ad...however they are right about the live stream. Pretty pathetic that the biggest company in the world, who specialises in technology, couldn't get the live stream working properly. I missed the tada moment when they unveiled the iphone! :eek:
 
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