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

Lowlife does as lowlife is !

Unreal how they think this makes them look cool..
It does not samy... U look like lowlife crooks!
 
iPhysicist said:
Server issues would mean blackout, but nearly the whole iPhone part was unwatchable. That's simply the truth. Hearing the song at the beginning made me chuckle first and then turn off audio. The Chinese translater made me really angry too... That's far from professional, they must have known that more than a couple of million people will watch the keynote online after all that hype. The moment I switched from the web player to my iPad lots of the problems seemed to be solved but this could also have been a coincidence.
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It was just problems with JSON coding in the page due to the live blog
 
If I was Apple, I'd pay Hulu to air this ad 4 times in a row on every commercial break (the streaming ad one). and then it'll backfire on Samsung for having the most annoying ad.
 
The only thing android users every say is that it "Isn't apple."

They think they are so much higher because they don't use an apple product...
 
It's comedy, think of it just for fun, lighten up people, I bet even the company Execs get a laugh out of this...



and then find the one responsible for this mistake, yell at them.
 
So let me get this straight: Samsung is now making fun of larger phones, the iWatch (which didn't their CEO pretty much say they started developing a watch to compete against Apple's rumored watch?), while also making fun of how Apple's event was so popular it broke the Internet? Ok Samsung. Okaaay.

You can bet that some Samsung "engineer" clown is already trying to figure out how they can make their own Digital Crown, Taptic Engine, and revolutionary new home screen navigation. Expect similar bands too except cheap knockoffs with fake leather and poor chain work.
 
they were kinda cute, but really just more insulting to Apple users. Really makes me want to avoid samsung products rather then embrace them. It would be like Apple doing a ad dropping a Samsung phone over and over and seeing all the plastic shatter each time, not very classy.
 
alexburton1995 said:
Seriously, you need better, faster internet. I have a mere 20mbps internet speed and streamed it live in 1080p, played it on podcasts in 1080p no problem. Was watching it in 1080p on my iPhone using T-Mobiles network, no problems there either.
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Using a 20mbps connection, also a T-Mobile subscriber. My sister, a Verizon subscriber - same issue. Both of us, over wifi and cellular, had this problem. Friends of mine, living across the country, had the same problem. MacRumors members, if the several pages of comments on the keynote thread are any indication, had the same issue. On the website, as well as on Apple TV. Also, no internet connection causes a Chinese interpreter to randomly start talking over everything.
 
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It was 10x more enjoyable to :apple:watch the choppy, Chinese dubbed Apple's keynote than it was to watch that forced abomination that the Note 4 presentation was. :eek:
 
I do dislike Samsung, though these ads did make me smile.

Still think it would have been Karma had Microsoft done them instead.

The bigger screen and streaming ones were the stand outs.

And everyone getting their panties in a twist, chill, It was Apple that mastered this form of advertising when they ran their I'm a PC, I'm a Mac ads. And to the people who claim those ads were classy and in good taste.... put down the Koolaid. Apple completely took the piss out of PCs.

I'd be very happy for Apple to hit back at Samsung and take the piss out of them.
 
I'm not some blind Apple fanboy, but I do find this kind of advertising to be useless. Especially considering that Apple will undoubtedly sell a ton of these phones.
 
alexburton1995 said:
Seriously, you need better, faster internet. I have a mere 20mbps internet speed and streamed it live in 1080p, played it on podcasts in 1080p no problem. Was watching it in 1080p on my iPhone using T-Mobiles network, no problems there either.
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I watched it at work with a gigabit connection and it couldn't keep up. Faster internet wouldn't of helped. And 20mbps is pretty fast for most people in America.
 
springsup said:
To be fair, Apple was streaming to like 500x more people than Samsung have ever streamed their keynotes to.
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More likely 5000 - 50000 times the amount.

In any case, the Apple keynote is very important for future Apple sales so any problems with it should be fixed so it will not happen again.
 
Anthony221121 said:
Technically, Apple's live streams are normally perfect, but this time they added a new feature, otherwise known as the live blog. It was on the same page as the live stream and due to the way it works, it forced the page to fetch new data constantly. So in the end, bad JSON coding actually caused the problems. I watched it on an Apple TV and it was perfectly fine.
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I tried watching it on a MacBook, an  TV (gen 2 and 3), and an iPhone and had the same issue with all of them. It was practically unwatchable until the watch announcement for me. So that doesn't entirely explain the issue.
 
alexburton1995 said:
Seriously, you need better, faster internet. I have a mere 20mbps internet speed and streamed it live in 1080p, played it on podcasts in 1080p no problem. Was watching it in 1080p on my iPhone using T-Mobiles network, no problems there either.
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You do realise there is a world outside the US right?

And the Chinese translations were a feature?

And yes it was a major failure. The whole world just got to see the World Cup 2014 without needing to upgrade their internet ;) Apple and their partners plain screwed this up (I know one of them was Akamai).
 
Samsung's marketing strategy of lampooning Apple comes across as desperate and sad.

Maybe if they tried talking up their own products (which are very good in their own right) instead of talking down the competition, they could build the same sort of hype around their product releases.
 
Apple totally deserves this. Although that guy should have had a Chinese voiceover as well at some point.

The other videos about the products? Meh.
 
TonyC28 said:
I'm not some blind Apple fanboy, but I do find this kind of advertising to be useless. Especially considering that Apple will undoubtedly sell a ton of these phones.
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Agreed. Bashing your competition may be fun couple times, but the joke grows old quickly and then you seem like a sore loser. Samsung looks like a very insecure company, facing Apple who still has a strong "following", pretty loyal and satisfied customers. Samsung looks almost like jealous, if company can be jealous. Makes me very reluctant to ever even try their devices, even though my previous experiences with their products have been positive. Samsung, please stop being childish. Compete with your products - we need a strong competition for Apple - competition is good for innovation and prices. Please Samsung, make better products and keep innovating - and just as you said in the "ads", bigger screen is not a great innovation. You need to do big stuff, like revolutionize payments.
 
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