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New Samsung Galaxy Ad Makes Fun of iPhone X's Notch, Lack of Stylus Support, Dongles, and More

deanthedev said:
The Note series barely even sells. We learned this from the disaster last year calked the Note 7. Samsung was forced to reveal sales figures because of the recall and they were pathetic. It can hardly be called a launch quarter. Unless you think bottle rockets are considered launch vehicles.
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The note 7 was an exception. Note 5 was successful and note 8 looks like it is going to be too.

Fact is Samsung sells a lot premium phones and you can keep your blinders on if you do wish.
 
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SashJ said:
What has always been their fall back option? Bashing apple, and even that doesn't work lol.
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On the contrary, their "Next Big Thing" advertising campaign six years ago and its followups are still talked about, and they boosted Samsung awareness and sales in the USA tremendously. Who can forget gems like:

"Dude, you're a barista!"

"I hear the headphone jack is on the bottom... boom! (pantomime of head exploding)"

"We're getting that feature next year for sure, right?"

"Oh no, we moved to Galaxy. We're just holding a spot in this iPhone line for our parents."

etc.
 
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spacemnspiff said:
Notch haircut was funny, but the rest of ad the falsely assumes that hardware is the most important factor in decision for purchase, when in fact it's the phone software. And that after all these years Samsung has yet to understand that and really put more focus on it in their own products.

If history is any predictor, Samsung S9 will probably have FaceID like system on the back of the phone.
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To be fair Apple touted hardware this year. There’s really nothing different about software. I realize there are “73849383” new features in iOS 11, but off the top of my head I couldn’t even tell you what changed without looking it up.
 
Quu said:
Pretty good ad I thought, really shows a lot of areas where Apple were a step behind. Things like water proofing, MicroSD expandable storage, larger display sizes etc - These are not areas where Apple came in later and did it better, they just came in late.

EDIT:// A lot of you guys are replying to this message saying I'm misinformed, hypnotised by Samsung marketing or some other thing like that. If you're going to reply like that, don't bother, its already been done.

I'm an iPhone user, you can see that by my signature. But I'm no Apple fanboy. Samsung, HTC and Google have been first to have many features that Apple is late on.

Things they were late to adding: Water Proofing, Dual Front Facing Speakers, OLED, Edge to Edge displays, Wireless Charging, NFC Payments, Open NFC Framework for Developers to use, dual back cameras with different focal lengths, fast charging over USB (Apple still doesn't include a fast charger in the box like Android phone makers do).

Things we're still waiting for them to catch up on: Dual-output Bluetooth, Multiple Apps on screen at once with a divider (on iPhone not iPad), FLAC support in the music app, Expandable MicroSD Storage support for Media files, Side-loading applications for individuals and not just businesses, support for the Apple Pencil, auto-connecting to Bluetooth speakers via NFC tapping, USB-C on the phone instead of Lightning.

And there is a lot more stuff I'm sure, these are just some of the things I can remember. I've been an iPhone user since 2009 with the iPhone 3GS, I've never owned an Android device but I'm no sheep, we often have to wait years before we get the features Android has had and not all of them are implemented better on the iPhone, only some of them are.
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Literally 0.1% of people care about the features you're "still waiting" for them to catch up on and I'm an Android user.

People want a phone that works, doesn't explode, and has iOS. I was an Android user since the iPhone 3G and can confidently say Android was worse than iOS. I had a few more features I rarely used (S Pen, wireless charging, and NFC early on) but dealt with slowness, App Crashing, lack of support, and no software updating FAR more than the benefits of the other "features."

Apple owns the premium smartphone market because people want something that is simple and works 99.9% of the time.
 
kdarling said:
On the contrary, their "Next Big Thing" advertising campaign six years ago and its followups are still talked about, and they boosted Samsung awareness and sales in the USA tremendously. Who can forget gems like:

"Dude, you're a barista!"

"I hear the headphone jack is on the bottom... boom! (pantomime of head exploding)"

"We're getting that feature next year for sure, right?"

"Oh no, we moved to Galaxy. We're just holding a spot in this iPhone line for our parents."

etc.
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Gosh, with all those great lines, like I said, they still couldn't make nearly the same amount of sales as iPhones.
 
farewelwilliams said:
can someone explain how writing down a contact is much better than typing it in?

- you need two hands
- you need a stylus
- looks wildly uncomfortable to write without some palm rest
- unless there's some "google magic" going on, you can't search for that contact (EDIT: yes i know OCR exist, but you need to take extra steps to file it as a contact instead of saving as a note)
- looks unorganized
- much slower to write vs typing
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And, after all that finagling, you then have to swap back and forth between the handwritten note and the contacts app to enter it as an actual contact. This is the dumbest point they could possibly make.
 
unibility said:
The reason why I like Apple Ads are because they do not focus or bash the completion. They focus on what they do well. They never compare to others. Branding is everything and at its best.

Apple focuses on their brand only. If you were running a car ad campaign, you wouldn’t want to focus on what that brand is doing. You’d focus on your product and that’s it. There will be worst products out there and there will be better products too. The key is to not focus on what your competitors are doing. Especially in a television spot where millions are watching.

This goes too you to Microsoft.
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Did you see the I’m a mac I’m a pc ads?
 
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Samsung really don't need to be doing this, it just shows them being childish.
 
sidewinder3000 said:
Sorry, it’s ******, smug, obnoxious-little-brother advertising that mocks potential customers and does nothing to positively build something unique for Samsung. They have a desperate case of Feature-itis for which there is no apparent cure. Like a villain that needs a hero to fight against to give their life meaning and purpose, Samsung is the shadow brand that just looks snotty, smug and defensive in comparison.

Once a challenger brand, always a challenger brand. Winner brands don’t engage in crap like this. They rise above.
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I see that Tim and Jony's distortion field is strong in this one.
 
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mib1800 said:
The note 7 was an exception. Note 5 was successful and note 8 looks like it is going to be too.

Fact is Samsung sells a lot premium phones and you can keep your blinders on if you do wish.
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I don’t have blinders on. Yes Samsung sells a lot of flagships. Millions in fact.

However my original point still stands. They are way behind iPhone sales. As in selling 1/3 as many (and I’m being generous).
 
deanthedev said:
The Note series barely even sells. We learned this from the disaster last year called the Note 7. Samsung was forced to reveal sales figures because of the recall and they were pathetic. It can hardly be called a launch quarter. Unless you think bottle rockets are considered launch vehicles.
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Was that sales figures just for Note 7? Cause there was a reason for the crap sales of that from launch
 
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kdarling said:
On the contrary, their "Next Big Thing" advertising campaign six years ago and its followups are still talked about, and they boosted Samsung awareness and sales in the USA tremendously. Who can forget gems like:

"Dude, you're a barista!"

"I hear the headphone jack is on the bottom... boom! (pantomime of head exploding)"

"We're getting that feature next year for sure, right?"

"Oh no, we moved to Galaxy. We're just holding a spot in this iPhone line for our parents."

etc.
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Actually I did forget all of those. Odd that you’d remember. Maybe only Samsung fans keep track of these.

Boosted sales? You have any proof that shows their sakes were boosted as a direct result of these ads? Thought so. They still trail iPhone sales by a very wide margin. Samsung isn’t even on the same playing field.
 
Video is nicely done, indeed! But not friendly to potential customers, and that its what I would expect if you want people to switch. Anyway, still not want to trade in the eco-system of Apple for a Samsung phone :p
 
I think Apple should use my video showing my Galaxy S8 being plugged in to 4 of my vehicles and not a SINGLE one of them recognized the device via USB-C! and then follow up with plugging EVERY SINGLE iteration of an iphone no matter via 30pin or lightning to any of my cars and they all mysteriously work. . . . . . drops the mic (or phone) end of commercial
 
farewelwilliams said:
can someone explain how writing down a contact is much better than typing it in?

- you need two hands
- you need a stylus
- looks wildly uncomfortable to write without some palm rest
- unless there's some "google magic" going on, you can't search for that contact (EDIT: yes i know OCR exist, but you need to take extra steps to file it as a contact instead of saving as a note)
- looks unorganized
- much slower to write vs typing
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LMFAO! Samsung cant even make their own features look good without making their own features look stupid HAHAHA!
 
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