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New Samsung Galaxy Ad Makes Fun of iPhone X's Notch, Lack of Stylus Support, Dongles, and More
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I don't see Samsung talking about the lack of security and important updates, along with the overheating problems... and catastrophic failure of past devices on a massive scale... Curious. Not to mention the bypass of their facial identification system with a photo.
I think Apple include these features when they are ready to, not just because they can. Fingerprint ID had been around for years but Apple didn't include it until they got it right. In my experience of using many different devices, Touch ID is the only one that works every time without repeat attempts or adopting a "knack" of using it. Waterproofing could have come sooner especially on a watch that, from launch, has always been targeted at the active lifestyle market
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Yeah, I don't like the notch....
I’ll keep my iPhone X, Samsung can keep their duplicate apps, carrier bloatware and Java.
Sweet Jeebus! Samsung just triggered the heck out of the MR forum. That's classic.
Maybe they should keep their display tech also?
Sega was doing the same thing over 25 years ago. It's almost like Samsung uses the same marketing agency as Sega. Apple made fun of PC folks for years using Justin Long.
Fanboys and fangirls are the only ones feeling triggered and salty by it. Just marketing no different than election season. In hip hop, they create diss songs and make manufactured beefs just to sell more records. A manufactured beef is one between Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon.
Here's Apple dissing Android...
It’s more topical than pointing out how Apple didn’t have wireless charging, and not being water resistant.
This advert portrayed none of the issues I have ever had with an iPhone.
Correct you are. Samsung was bad a while back about, more or less, giving Apple free advertising. I thought they had stopped doing that and focusing on their own products but here we are again.
it's never a good idea to use the competition in advertisement, even if you mock it.
i think apple might even have more screen time in it..
i think apple might even have more screen time in it..
Rather the notch then black bezels on the top and bottom.
Samsung today posted a new video on its YouTube channel called "Samsung Galaxy: Growing Up," which follows the life of a young man as he purchases Apple devices over the course of ten years, and then decides to switch sides to Samsung on the eve of the iPhone X launch. The 1-minute commercial features the song "I'm Moving On" by Chyvonne Scott.
The video begins at the iPhone launch in 2007, and subsequent years show the main character facing storage issues when taking a photo and waiting in long lines under poor weather conditions for the latest iPhone. At one point, he drops his iPhone in water and has to place it in a bowl of rice, while his girlfriend's Samsung device continues to function.
Other points made in the ad center around the iPhone's lack of stylus support, as well as its need for dongles after the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack in the iPhone 7. The ad ends with the character's decision to turn off his iPhone and purchase a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, and he eventually walks past a line of people waiting for the iPhone X -- including a guy with a notch-like haircut -- without joining them.
The latest Samsung smartphone is the Galaxy Note 8, which launched in September with dual rear cameras, a 6.3-inch AMOLED 'Infinity Display', and a new and enhanced S Pen with improved pressure sensitivity. Many publications favorably reviewed the Note 8 prior to its launch, agreeing that the lack of an explosive battery made Samsung's newest device a step up from the Note 7.
Article Link: New Samsung Galaxy Ad Makes Fun of iPhone X's Notch, Lack of Stylus Support, Dongles, and More
They were very clear that they were ridiculing PCs, not PC users. "I'm a PC," not "I'm a PC user."
First of all stylus’ are the stupidest thing ever, and yes I don’t like the Apple Pencil either... also watch Samsung take away the headphone jack within the next year or 2, other comapinies are doing it too, not just apple. Also Bluetooth is getting much more popular, I don’t use wired headphone anymore so dongles aren’t a problem. This is the reason I hate Samsung, they think they’re so great and make fun of others, think of a creative way to show off your phone, not poke fun at others you idiots...
Lets be honest here, could Samsung release any advert that would gain favor with Macrumors viewers?
1/2. It's a preference. When I had my Note 3, I loved taking notes with the stylus. The S-Pen was an amazing piece of tech back then. You would be able to convert that to a contact in a few clicks.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
- looks unorganized
- much slower to write vs typing
3. Have you used that phone / feature before? If not, I think it would be fair for you to try it at least. It's not for everyone, of course, but from your post, you appear to only comment without having experience.
4. See #1. It can smart scan it and add it as a contact (I don't remember the steps. I had a Note 3 two/three years ago, but I do recall doing this).
5. See #1, #4.
6. Nope. With adding a contact on the iPhone, you would have to click the phone app, click on contact, click on the plus sign, and then proceed. Typing with one hand varies, but it's still slower than typing with two hands. With the S-Pen, you pull it out, you hold it close to the screen and you click the button to pull up a bunch of options on the screen. Click the notes bubble, and proceed with writing. You can either add it to contacts then and there, or you can save it for later.
Again, for me handwriting makes more sense because I've done it before, and I can make the claim that it's faster than typing.
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You mean like Apple's Mac vs PC series of advertisements?
I do find these ads funny, but they feel more like they’re aimed at stroking the ego of those who already bought a Galaxy, rather than trying to convince someone to purchase one/switch over.
'growing up' -- Samsung is saying that they advanced and adopted at a faster rate than Apple feature wise.
Samsung, you had your chance but instead you put out the pile of crap Fascinate (og Samsung galaxy) on Verizon and then didn’t even push out an update to it for 1/2 of the time I suffered with it. You sent an (admittedly) anti-Apple guy running to Cupertino yelling “take my money!”. As a long-term result, you lost me, my wife, my parents, her parents, and countless other relatives and friends of ours who valued my opinion more than your advertising.
I must have missed that part of the flashback commercial....
I must have missed that part of the flashback commercial....
The Mac and PC commercials were very interesting, even Steve Jobs acknowledged that the main star of the ads and the reason you’d keep watching them was because of PC.
"I'm a Mac" - played by young guy.
"I'm a PC" - played by old guy that reminded me of Gates.