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New Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Commercial Attacks Apple for iPhone 6 Plus

Typical Samsung. They ****** things out too quick.

-Steve comes out with the iPhone.
-Samsung copies the UI.
-Apple sues Samsung.
-Samsung gets pissed and tries to push out more crap faster than the iPhone to get revenge.
-Apple continues its perfection and sells record high on iPhone 6 & Plus pre-orders.
-Samsung loses some of its phablet customers to the iPhone 6 Plus.
-The media strikes out as if NFC payments has never been heard of before and all of the Banks are onboard because everyone uses a freakin iPhone and trusts Apple!
 
JayIsAwesome said:
There are quite a few people out there that honestly have 0 interest in an iPhone Plus. A lot of people love S-Pen. Samsung will do just fine dude. It'll be interesting to see the Phablet (I hate that word btw) battle between the two tech giants tho.
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Do you have any sort of proof that few people are interested in the iPhone 6+?
Samsung will get eaten up by the Chinese oem's. Apple has no worries.

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AppLovr said:
NYC is hipster paradise. They only have iPhones.

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I joined today...And? I plan on being here for a very long while. It's a nice hangout. :)
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You joined today hopefully Apple enthusiast. You will learn a lot. If you come here to bash you should rethink your decisions in life:)
 
osofast240sx said:
Do you have any sort of proof that few people are interested in the iPhone 6+?
Samsung will get eaten up by the Chinese oem's. Apple has no worries.
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I never said that few people are interested in the i6+. I said that there are some people who don't care for it. Just like there are people who *gasp* actually want a Note 4 over an i6+. There seems to be this idea that everybody is gonna drop there Samsung phones and go running to Apple b/c the screen is bigger. I still remember when Apple made it's way to Verizon. A lot of people said it would be the end of android b/c everybody would leave android and go with iPhone. And that clearly turned out to be true
 
sweatshop said:
I dislike when a company has to resort to making others look bad to sell product.... I'd rather they emphasize their own strengths than others weaknesses
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Yeah, let's all bury our heads in the sand and pretend we don't remember the Apple Vs PC commercials. Oh fanboys, never change.
 
The comments here are predictable. Except that everything Samsung said was absolutely true. And they didn't even do it in an insulting way. Why people feel the need to defend Apple against something like this is beyond me.

And LOL at the 100+ up votes on saying Apple doesn;t have to stoop this low to produce a better looking product. The front looks the exact same, with bigger bezels and a round home button. The rose colored goggles I guess.

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Pman17 said:
Typical Samsung. They ****** things out too quick.

-Steve comes out with the iPhone.
-Samsung copies the UI.
-Apple sues Samsung.
-Samsung gets pissed and tries to push out more crap faster than the iPhone to get revenge.
-Apple continues its perfection and sells record high on iPhone 6 & Plus pre-orders.
-Samsung loses some of its phablet customers to the iPhone 6 Plus.
-The media strikes out as if NFC payments has never been heard of before and all of the Banks are onboard because everyone uses a freakin iPhone and trusts Apple!
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Yes. Samsung makes products as a revenge tactic. Same reason Apple upped their screen sizes. They want to outsell Samsung purely for revenge. Not to make money or anything. :rolleyes:
 
am a big Apple fan..and that's not going to change for a while...so it kind of saddens me to say that the ad is spot on...I can see a lot of fans saying that Apple does not have to name Apple's used to always be ahead of the curve and by the time the competition caught on, Apple had moved on to the next best thing and the cycle continued...
Things are different today...Apple still probably has the best platform..but, I feel innovation is slow and others are beating Apple at it's own game.. Even the Apple watch probably a design wonder and maybe has a good user experience, there is no "compelling" feature that gives it the "I really want that" tag...Hopefully there will be something that comes up between now and when they launch..but by then competition will have come up with something too..I hope I am wrong!
 
Tovenaar said:
These ads are meant to give Samsung phone owners bite-sized phrases to use when talking with iPhone users. It happens all the time: I'm talking to someone about getting the new iPhone and they start bashing it with phrases almost word-for-word from the ads.
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This doesn't happen here...

"It just works"
"Android is fragmented"
"95% of iOS users are on the newest OS update whil Android is in the teens"
"Apple isn't usually first, they wait to get it right"

(to be clear I am not singling you out... you very well may be aware this happens all over the place, I just found it am appropriate response to your specific statement)
 
Ichabod. said:
The Apple Newton was a great product that just hit ten+ years before the world was ready.
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Is this a serious post? The Newton wasn't a phone. Plenty of people used them, but it was the 90s and people weren't huge fans of Apple at the time. They were also a tiny company without a lot of resources.
 
tigres said:
Boy Samsung can make a fast ad. There commercial company must be on call 24/7.

Never seen a company turn ads so fast, quality aside of course.
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Yeah, or it was waiting in the wings for the past few months. We've all been following rumors of a 4.7-4.8" iPhone.. and a 5.5" one... for what? Nearly a year now?
 
It's safe to say as of Oct 2013 Samsung sold over 50 million Notes since it's launch a few years ago. As of now they sold roughly 60-70 million.

Apple with the 6 Plus should sell at least 50 million it's first year. That is a major blow and slap in the face for Samsung. I would not be shocked if the 6 plus sold 30 million by the end of this year. It will be that popular.

The more Samsung continues to pour gasoline a fire will be created and will be hard to put out.
 
brendu said:
There is going to be a multi hundred post thread about this ad on this site. That is why macrumors posted it.
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You're absolutely right. Macrumors/Macrumours has to generate interest therefore why not post something that will flare the nostrils of Mac aficionados? With the paid hacks that help it along some the outcome is obvious.

People need to see this coming. Everyone knows the protocol by now, right?
 
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lordofthereef said:
This doesn't happen here...

"It just works"
"Android is fragmented"
"95% of iOS users are on the newest OS update whil Android is in the teens"
"Apple isn't usually first, they wait to get it right"

(to be clear I am not singling you out... you very well may be aware this happens all over the place, I just found it am appropriate response to your specific statement)
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How quickly they forget :rolleyes:

Honestly reminds me of politics.
 
osofast240sx said:
You say android has had this tech for many years? But living in the NYC city I have yet to see anyone pay with the android phone. :apple:Pay will be huge! It will be all over!

You don't need NFC to send links and pics, you can't be serious?
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You know that's a great point. Here in Australia you never hear of anyone making payments using NFC. I mean sure people have android phones with the NFC chip but NFC for payments hasn't really taken off.

... but Apple are about to change all that. I believe they will be the driving force to encourage, and enable, people to transact using NFC.
NFC may have been around for a number of years but the world really wasn't ready for it, and now Apple have come in at the right time to see this get off the ground.
I mean so many cafe's and restaurants have adopted iPad's as cash registers. You see them everywhere now. Not just in Australia but overseas too. No doubt they have been prevalent in the USA for some time. But with that level of adoption of Apple products all over the place then you know that retailers are ready or at least in a good position to start accepting NFC payment for goods and services. It's like Apple have been builiding this retail ecosystem and now NFC and Apple Pay are the next stage or final stage of this plan.
 
The ads seemed pretty spot on to me. For years, folks around these parts crapped all over the idea of a phablet. It was ridiculed and called every derogatory name under the sun. Then Apple announced the 6 Plus, and folks are climbing over each other to get one. You know, it's okay to admit that Apple is now trying to appeal to a user base that Samsung catered to first. It doesn't diminish either company's products.
 
slrandall said:
Why does MacRumors post these stories? They're just giving them free advertising at this point. I understand the stories about the actual products of Apple's competition, but why post the attack ads? What kind of good discussion is going to come from this article? Who seriously thinks that this article is a valuable contribution to this site?
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It is disappointing to see them posted because the outcome is so predictable. But I guess all the new posts they generate must be good for the ad side of the business, so the stories keep getting posted.

My feeling about this ad and Samsung in general is: WGAS.

Now I'm going back to the iPhone forum to discuss a product I actually care about.
 
Burger Thing said:
I'm not an Apple faithful and rather an average Android *and* iOS user. But if the Note 3 and S5 couldn't stop the decline in Samsung Mobile Segments profits, what makes you think the Note 4 will stop this trend? Especially that for the first time Apple is competing in that segment, too?
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There are many variables to consider and that effect these results mentioned above. Example: Samsung Note 4 will cost more as it addresses a different need, not for everyone; their are more low end price competitors now offering some similar features; Samsung's target market - middle to high income buyers; their is a bigger low income market available Apple is targeting with it's beginning $200 price point. Having the best marketing, doesn't mean you have the best product. .Apple? Their are way more Fords, than Rolls Royce's.
 
May be this point has already been made here...

Though I am not a fan of Samsung as an innovator, I have a bit of empathy for half of what Samsung says. The Apple aficionados in general were star struck by Steve Jobs and they consumed these two things he said without critical analysis: "if the stylus showed up, you have failed", "phones that can not be operated with one hand are a non-starter" ( paraphrasing what is typically described as SJ position on these two matters ). I do remember the crackle from Apple friendly bloggers making fun of and totally diss'ing Samsung and the people who buy those big phones. That arrogance always bothered me then.

What is even worse is that the very same people are now very muted in their reaction to Apple's 6+ .

In this Apple vs Non-Apple debate, both sides approach the issue just like how politicians do where you come with strong and un-changeable positions and defend them to the extreme.

So, I have empathy for Samsung pulling up the online bloggers on their double standard. But they crap out in a silly fashion in linking that argument to Apple itself. As someone wrote, Apple can withdraw the 6+ if Samsung is willing to withdraw multitouch from all their smartphones!
 
j313 said:
Apple has stooped lower before, by suing Samsung a couple of times in court. Know this, that at one time. ..Samsung made 70% of Apples phone parts in the past, before their relationship turned sour.
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Winning the bid to manufacture a few parts (not 70%) does not hold a stick to the actual design, engineering, and innovation. Samsung has been involved in the manufacture of SoCs, memory and LCDs, that's it. And they have rarely been the sole provider.
 
rwilliams said:
The ads seemed pretty spot on to me. For years, folks around these parts crapped all over the idea of a phablet. It was ridiculed and called every derogatory name under the sun. Then Apple announced the 6 Plus, and folks are climbing over each other to get one. You know, it's okay to admit that Apple is now trying to appeal to a user base that Samsung catered to first. It doesn't diminish either company's products.
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Exactly, on these forums Samsung was bashed left and right for larger phones, especially the note 5+" screen

Now these same apple sheep drooling over the iPhone 6 plus
 
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