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Lol. I give them credit for this ad.

While I would never buy are samsung product again, the ads are fun.

Competition is a good thing. Hopefully it leads to even better Apple products.

You mean Samsung branded product right?
You’re aware that Apple devices are full of Samsung products, or maybe you aren’t.
 
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.

You are...interesting to read. "They don't innovate anymore" and then "when they do something they do it right". Look up the word innovate. Hell. Even ask Siri to "define innovate"
 
I am a huge Apple fan. I drink the Apple flavored koolaid since I got my first iPhone in 2007. I remember using the iPhone for the first time in an AT&T store model, and I have to say my jaw dropped to the floor. I was absolutely stunned that a device could be so incredible.

I really can't express in words how wonderful it was, I must have played with that very first iPhone display model for 30 minutes. I became embarrassed because I literally couldn't stop myself from grinning. I've always been a fan of science fiction, and that kind of smartphone felt like one of the futuristic devices I had always wanted. I was NOT an Apple fan at the time, but that moment of pure magic converted me in a heartbeat, it was literally that fast. The device was truly breathtaking compared to other smartphones at the time. I HAD to have it and I've bought pretty much all Apple products since then, and it's all because of that very first iPhone.

I have never gotten that primal feeling of "this is magic!" from a Samsung device. Sure, they've been cool at times. I was very impressed with the Samsung Galaxy Note II the very first time I saw it. But they've never really given me a moment of stunning clarity where I felt like I had witnessed the future. Samsung, as a company, is absolutely amazing at delivering good chips. They make the most innovative NAND memory and SSD's as well as some gorgeous displays. Technically, without digging in to it, the Galaxy S5 is very impressive. On paper.

But the "soul" of the phone just isn't there. It is very obvious to me that when I use a samsung phone, I am using a product developed by 9-5 engineers who don't get attached to any particular product or company. They don't really care or obsess over getting every tiniest detail, such as perfecting UI response time to a certain number of milliseconds. These engineers look at consumer polling data and focus groups to decide what kinds of phones to make. They don't make a device of their own personal taste.

Samsung is good at delivering a certain spec of performance for a specific price. When you buy a Samsung display or a Samsung SSD, you can be absolutely sure that you will be getting the best specs and great reliability, far ahead of the competition. That is why I always buy samsung displays and SSD's. But a smartphone is different. A smartphone is such a personal device, a computer, that it really takes someone who is truly obsessed over every TINIEST detail to make it right. It's like a painting, you have to painstakingly sculpt the hardware and the software to work together perfectly, you can't just make add a new "skin" on top of an existing OS and call it "innovation".

I like Samsung, but they don't have the level of imagination required to make an amazing smartphone. Their smartphones are impressive on paper, and they have good specs. But the UI is horrifying and the features are so gimmicky and useless that I cannot imagine myself ever buying a Samsung smartphone. If it were up to Samsung to make the very first modern smartphone back in 2007 instead of Apple, I think we all know that they would have built a good device with good specs and then crippled it by putting Windows Mobile on it. Unlike hardware, software requires a level of abstract artistry that Samsung just doesn't possess, their culture doesn't allow such obsessive levels of creativity.

whole heartedly agree.
this transcend beyond the product and the packaging. it's also evident in their marketing/ads campaign. sure apple can list out all the specs, and features. but they focus on the human elements, the user. they delivers ads that are aspirational, and beautiful.
where as samsung... throw mud around -_-
 
Can Samsung get any more pathetic?

You would think being in South Korea that the people would be thankful the the USA spends BILLIONS every year keeping the Northern hoard from invading the South. But here you have a company that has a history of "borrowing" others technology to build their own business. Apple used Samsung to build the first iPhone in 2006/2007 and surprise-surprise shortly after that Samsung starting producing their own smart phones that looked very similar to Apple's. I wonder where they got that technology from?????
CEO Lee Kun-hee of Samsung was put in prison 2008 & separately three executives went to jail in 2006 for price-fixing.
I am not saying Samsung does not make good products, I am saying they have no ethics company wide as can be seen from their Apple bashing advertising.
I am through buying anything from Samsung.
 
You would think being in South Korea that the people would be thankful the the USA spends BILLIONS every year keeping the Northern hoard from invading the South. But here you have a company that has a history of "borrowing" others technology to build their own business. Apple used Samsung to build the first iPhone in 2006/2007 and surprise-surprise shortly after that Samsung starting producing their own smart phones that looked very similar to Apple's. I wonder where they got that technology from?????
CEO Lee Kun-hee of Samsung was put in prison 2008 & separately three executives went to jail in 2006 for price-fixing.
I am not saying Samsung does not make good products, I am saying they have no ethics company wide as can be seen from their Apple bashing advertising.
I am through buying anything from Samsung.

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I’m not sure if you’ve tried iOS or not, it may not seem like the OS you need but it really is very good and worth a shot. The whole experience is pretty fluid. Sure there are things you’ll lose, (and some you’ll gain).
I’d have bought the 6 but it just looked boring. I still want to see how they manage the screen protector thing with all those curves too.

My wife has a 5C. What I could say? It's a smartphone. Safari, Facebook and Mail run smooth, but it feels like an OS in a jail. Actually I don't care too much with the OS. Both Android and iOS are good operating systems. But iPhones are just barely updated with the current hardware tech. That is, 1920px when a Note 4 is in the 2500px range. No pen, no any revolutionary innovation like haptic feedback, no health sensors, no killer camera. It's just the same old platform with a couple of new software addons and running twice as fast as the older generation.

The biggest innovation from Apple this year on the iStuff world is providing a way to allow us to spend more money by using NFC chips, which are pretty inexpensive these days. What a great feature!

How Apple thinks I'll spend my money on an iPhone 6? Ok, iPhones are pretty cheap in USA with all those subsides, but in a worldwide perspective, there are more interesting offers in the Android side -- or even in Microsoft/Nokia.
 
This reminds me of mudslinging politicians. After a while, people will get tired of this approach, and it will backfire. :cool:
 
Samsung's ads do exactly what they intend them to do: get people to buy their products and think that Samsung's biggest competitor isn't as good as Samsung. I hear it all the time: "You actually still use an iPhone?" I usually smile and say, "Yes. Yes, I do." Then I go to confession and say "Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I have been extremely prideful of the fact that I'm not susceptible to marketing campaigns which dupe the ignorant masses." Five Hail Marys, and I'm back to not worrying if my phone will work.
 
If I was a fanboy, this would be the point where I would use the Apple meme: Yeah we weren't the first to make a smartphone, but we definitely made the market.

Since I am not a fanboy, I will simply say it's a fair statement to say the phablet market is what it is largely due to Samsung.

I honestly don't think anyone cares. Same thing with the lawsuits. Nobody cares who did what first. And that's where I wish Apple would just say no to anymore lawsuits.
 
Samsung's blatant trolling of iFans is a thing of beauty. Just to see some people, who don't work for Apple mind you, get so upset over an ad...,is amusing trolololololol
 
I never said anything about the iPhone in 2007 being anything related to the iPad. Watch every keynote from 2007 and watch his terminology change through the years. I told you where to find all the information. Want me to hold your hand and talk you through the years? You should be happy to rewatch all the keynotes.

I would pay you to come up with any verifiable evidence of what you asserted in your original quote. Seriously. I would pay you. Watch every keynote? Somebody's not afraid of a hyperbolic challenge is he?:rolleyes: So you're saying go through 15-16 hours of video just so you can prove a point that I already know is false? I'd be glad to do so. If you watch them with me and point out where you came up with theory (no need to hold hands). :D

Did Steve change his terminology through the years? I would think he would have to since he was talking about new stuff every year. But that's not what you said in your quote.

/pushes goalpost a little more to the left

How about I just say you win and we call it a day.
 
Maybe not true.....

You do know that LG Prada was before the iPhone right? While Apple made it popular, it certainly wasn't the one that came up with the idea

"LG later claimed that Apple stole both the ideas and concept of the Prada phone. A lawsuit by LG had been rumored prior to this announcement;[9] however, LG never followed through with it. Similar non-physical designs were revealed by Apple as part of the evidence in the 2012 Apple vs. Samsung court case, such as the prototype dubbed "Purple" which was dated August 2005, and the "Howarth" design from March 2006."
 
Samsung's blatant trolling of iFans is a thing of beauty. Just to see some people, who don't work for Apple mind you, get so upset over an ad...,is amusing trolololololol

Except 99.9% of the population doesn't give a crap. Is Samson going to continue running these ads if Apple announces a crap load of phones were sold over the first weekend? I'd be curious to know how many switchers Samsung gets from these ads. Now that Apple has larger screen phones we'll find out how effective these ads really are.
 
My wife has a 5C. What I could say? It's a smartphone. Safari, Facebook and Mail run smooth, but it feels like an OS in a jail. Actually I don't care too much with the OS. Both Android and iOS are good operating systems. But iPhones are just barely updated with the current hardware tech. That is, 1920px when a Note 4 is in the 2500px range. No pen, no any revolutionary innovation like haptic feedback, no health sensors, no killer camera. It's just the same old platform with a couple of new software addons and running twice as fast as the older generation.

The biggest innovation from Apple this year on the iStuff world is providing a way to allow us to spend more money by using NFC chips, which are pretty inexpensive these days. What a great feature!

How Apple thinks I'll spend my money on an iPhone 6? Ok, iPhones are pretty cheap in USA with all those subsides, but in a worldwide perspective, there are more interesting offers in the Android side -- or even in Microsoft/Nokia.

Well made points.
 
Patience.

1 or 2 years more and Samsung will be where they deserve to be. An average Phone maker among others, overtaken by LG, Lenovo, maybe Sony, etc, and in emerging markets like China and India totally crushed by Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. And Apple of course.

B/c this is totally going to happen
 
I would pay you to come up with any verifiable evidence of what you asserted in your original quote. Seriously. I would pay you. Watch every keynote? Somebody's not afraid of a hyperbolic challenge is he?:rolleyes: So you're saying go through 15-16 hours of video just so you can prove a point that I already know is false? I'd be glad to do so. If you watch them with me and point out where you came up with theory (no need to hold hands). :D

Did Steve change his terminology through the years? I would think he would have to since he was talking about new stuff every year. But that's not what you said in your quote.

/pushes goalpost a little more to the left

How about I just say you win and we call it a day.

That was too easy.
 
Even if Apple isnt the 1st to come out with something, when they do it makes other companies say "why didnt we make it like that"
 
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