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I'll say this as an apple fan: Samsung has a point. Apple has done nothing new with the new iPhone and what Samsung has done before.

Samsung wasn't the first one to make large screen phones. HTC Evo was first.
 
If you guys take a look at the keynote

Out the 100% of the talk of the iphone , I say 20% was about the size. Mostly everything was benefits and features other than size.

This phone is much more than just a bigger sized phone. If this NFC feature takes off , talk about another history making moment . :)
 
... the ad shows select tweets from users criticizing Apple for releasing the iPhone 6 Plus three years after Samsung started the Galaxy Note line of devices.

And all they say is "the iPhone 6 looks like..."
Because fandroids have all given up on quoting their device specs.
The instant the iPhone 5S was announced, with its 64-bit A7, they all shut up.
And that was a whole year ago. With no 64-bit Android answer. Could take years.
(Remember the "Your wife will love the Tegra 2 dual-core processor..." ad? Lulz.)

Now fandroids are all fashion victims.
Because when you talk about fashion, you're almost never wrong.
 
At the end of the day

At the end of the day Samsung is being hurt by Apple on the high-end market.
And being be kill in the low-end by the Chinese manufactures.
:cool:
 
I don't get these ads at all. They seem only to serve as an ego stroke for those who were already going to buy a Samsung phone while attacking any potential costumers wanting an iPhone alternative. :confused:

I know I'm not the first to have stated this, but goodness, it makes no sense.
 
When you're the gold standard, you don't mention your competitor. Hence, why Apple rarely, if ever, mentions Samsung.

Samsung is not a competitor of apple. Samsung competes with one or few products with apple products. Apple is much wider, much broad company than Samsung. I believe if it was not for that parts that apple is purchasing from Samsung. We would not hear about them.
 
Apple does not innovate anymore. But when they do something, they do it right. My friends laughed at me when I mentioned the iPhone 6 is getting NFC. But I guarentee I will use my phone to pay for stuff more before 2014 ends, then they have with Google wallet in the past 3 years.

How exactly is using a fingerprint scanner to unlock your phone and now make more secure credit card payments NOT innovating? Putting a stick up your phone's butt and turning scribble into text is something Palm did 15 years ago.

This "Apple doesn't innovate as more" shtick gets tiring. The Mac was not the first PC, the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, the ipad wasn't the first tablet, the Apple Watch isn't the first smartwatch, Apple Pay isn't the first payment system. Innovation doesn't just mean you're the first person to do something. It can also mean you're the first to do it in a way that doesn't suck.
 
At the end of the day Samsung is being hurt by Apple on the high-end market.
And being be kill in the low-end by the Chinese manufactures.
:cool:

True. Before Friday, Samsung had the large smartphone market to itself. Now it doesn't. At minimum, people will stop defecting from iOS because of the screen size. More likely people who bought Galaxy Notes or even the S3 and S4 will return to the iOS fold.
 
These Samsung adds calling Apple copycats are really petty. It's becoming very apparent just how threatening Apple's products are to that company. These adds are the classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. Hypocracy at it's finest. The iPhone 3G, released July 11, 2008 was a follow up to Apple's revolutionary design. Almost two years later Samsung released the Galaxy S. Need I say more? It is almost a replica down to the minutia. Look at that phone icon! Way to be creative Samsung! Pff. Amateurs. 
 

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I wasn't blown away by the :apple:Watch, but I certainly will check it out when it is released. I hope that they will be able to monitor blood pressure and glucose on future models.

Agreed. I have to check my blood pressure every day, and I'd love a way to do it passively. Don;t know if it's possible to do, though.
 
Do these ads actually work? That's the story I'd like to read. I wonder if any independent publication has studied whether these ads succeed in stealing customers from Apple, or do they just make Samsung users feel more smug about a phone they already have.
 
Samsung is not a competitor of apple. Samsung competes with one or few products with apple products. Apple is much wider, much broad company than Samsung. I believe if it was not for that parts that apple is purchasing from Samsung. We would not hear about them.

Um.

While I am not a fan of Samsung phones and will never buy them, Samsung the company is arguably a 'broader' company than Apple ever has been or ever will be. They make a ton of stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
 
Hate to burst your bubble here, but Apple Pay is just an implementation of standard contact less EMV payments. Google Wallet is basically identical in execution and has been around for years.

There's a difference. Apple pay will actually work.

I can make a device and throw in 50 amazing features ....but if that's all I do, was it worth it?

The week after the announcement I got an email from my capital one card that apple pay will work next month . Apple is not just a noun, they are a verb. Not just implementing , but executing.

Big difference
 
How to be a tool.
Step 1- Get a phone with a 5.5" screen or larger.
Step 2- Attach Bluetooth earpiece to ear.
Step 3- Talk really loud.
Step 4 -Buy a very oversized truck or SUV.
Step 5-Wear warmup gear from a soccer team that no one in the US has ever heard of.

Don't be a tool stick with a 6.
 
Can we also thank Samsung for using such an awful mobile OS and not developing their own that may actually entice us to switch. Added to which a larger display on a less well crafted handset isn't all that much to brag about Samsung.
 
Samsung is not a competitor of apple. Samsung competes with one or few products with apple products. Apple is much wider, much broad company than Samsung. I believe if it was not for that parts that apple is purchasing from Samsung. We would not hear about them.

Apple could go to Intel to make its processors. They could go to Toshiba for its NAND and Hynix for its RAM. I think a lot of the bad blood between Apple and Samsung is that Apple, and particularly Steve Jobs, felt betrayed when their key supplier started competing with them.
 
I really miss 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and some of 2011. When those who hated Apple HAD NO CREDIBLE PHONE ALTERNATIVE! Cruising around in their 3GS bitching about how it needs iTunes, but they don't like iTunes. Yeah they were they days. When every Counterstrike playing mac-hater had to conceded that the iPhone really was the best phone out there, or play with a sluggish samsung knock off.

Thats right, knockoff! Samsung copied apple right down to the colour scheme of the damn calculator. So much coincidental "orange and grey" in those samsung calculator apps. How curious.

Anyway, Im really happy these Apple haters, can now properly vent all that fives years of pent up technological butt hurt. Vent it guys, it gets better!
 
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