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

The Samsung ads are an accurate reflection. Their creaky plastic phones have no class, likewise their advertisments.
 
viewfly said:
So Samsung's point is that they had a 5.5" screen years before Apple. And that Apple just caught up? So Samsung with such a head start what is your innovative next big thing, just what Apple has now, in screen size?

There is nothing innovative about big screens, they have been around on computers for a long time. It's a decision not an innovation.
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You can't take away from Samsung that they made the 'Phablet' popular.
I was mocking my sister two years ago for her 'brick' and now I'm going to buy the iP 6+. Apple are going to profit from a market Samsung opened.
 
joke 2011 Samsung is the real idea ripper.

Well back in 2011 Samsung had real success with retina pfablet display. it was so popular that multitasking blew us all away, and battery life 8 hours if you managed not to do much.

well this all is a reason. We are fed up buying crappy products with crappy service.
I'm to poor to afford crappy products. I go full monty for the best I can afford, but company that sells dishwashers, fridges, irons, are not it.

Samsung actually ripped Dysons vacuum cleaners.
 
ryansimmons323 said:
It's a screen size!!!

It's not like it's some technological innovation!

Apple could have built the original iPhone with a massive screen from the start, but they just waited until they could perfect it.

PS: The 'I'm a Mac/PC' ads were nothing like this.

Remember back then Apple was the underdog, an underdog with truly great products losing out to a dominant Microsoft with not-so-good products (awful products in my opinion).

Also it's worth remembering that those ads were playful, Mac and PC were friends in the ads.
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So much friends that Microsoft had to bail Apple out. This may have been the best stock purchase ever by MS. Yes, they sell a lot of Office for Mac, and that's probably why they did it, but, behind the scenes, a lot of these companies aren't the enemies that the press plays them out to be.
 
rmbpuser said:
HA
what are you gonna say about this!!!! ha!!! aa!?
what happened here?!?! what happened here samsung fans?!!? what what? :):):):p
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I've made a mistake that's actually the new Galaxy Alpha I think, not the Note 4 which is just a bigger version of that on second thought. So really, it doesn't even matter at this point.

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H2SO4 said:
No they weren’t. Apple went out of their way to make PC look the fool and you ate it up because they did it nicely with a little humour. It’s called passive agressive.
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It's called tasteful and informative marketing. I hated using Windows Vista back then, yet I liked the PC guy the best. And really, everything Apple pointed out about its products was true.
 
Ah, now I see it...Apple copied a screen size...What an invention and genious idea they have copied.
 
Windlasher said:
Thats why the I'm a Mac, I'm a PC commercials were great. Apple didn't attack any one in particular, just the platform. Apple poked fun at its competitors without resorting to name calling.

Samsung seemingly doesn't understand how this works which is weird because they have a US presence. Cant anyone at the Corp US site march upstairs and tell them how American Minds work?
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I wouldn't go as far as to say that Samsung doesn't understand how the
American mind works. Samsung itself has credited its marketing for its
rise to its top spot in the smartphone market. No matter how much we
may dislike them, attack ads do work -- as an example, just take a look
at the majority of political ads during election time.
 
Samsung phones have volume and power buttons on opposite sides, which makes people accidentally press one or the other and it's incredibly annoying. That's the reason I stopped using the Note 2.
 
brdeveloper said:
I think it's really fun bashing the iOS world. Actually I love bashing anything that involves fanatism. I really love Macs because they're inexpensive considering what they offer. But I have difficult to recognize the same advantage on iPhones.
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We've owned 4 iPhones and 3 Android phones in my home.

All 3 Android phones started off great but within 6 months were displaying all kinds of bizarre behavior (frequently crashing apps, random shutdowns/restarts, battery drain, excess lag, etc.) That all got worse over time and by the end of the two-year cycle, the phones were nearly unusable. Additionally, none of them were ever given official operating system updates despite all of them starting off on older versions of Android than what was current at the time.

The 4 iPhones started off great and continued being great with none of the above mentioned weirdness. They were supported through 3 major OS updates and, in fact in all cases except the iPhone 3G, got significant performance bumps with each update

I see huge advantages to owning an iPhone but, as they say, YMMV.
 
rmbpuser said:
but the earlier point i was making still stands: the Im a Mac and the samsung anti apple ads are comparable as much as apples and oranges are - they are both fruits.
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To me, they were both petty and unnecessary. I still hated Apple when the "I'm a Mac" commercials were running, and they only made me hate Apple even more, because that annoying smugness was exactly the perception I had of Apple at the time. Even now that I have transformed into a Grade A Apple fanboy, they still remind me of a company that is like the school yard bully who pulls down some poor kids pants and goes "Haha, look, stupid PC is wearing underpants with little hearts on them! Point at him and laugh" Watch Apple commercials nowadays... they are much more heartwarming, inclusive, positive. They talk about what you can do with the products, how you can benefit from them. Not about how they are so much better than other company's sucky products.

And I still wince whenever Apple's competitors are mentioned in a keynote speech. "Harr harr, look, they can't catch up with us!" *cue audience laughter* Completely pointless.
 
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Somehow, Samsung always manages to make its next ad more pathetic than the previous, which is stunning. These ads have the feel of a drowning person's last, frantic, desperate flails. Size was pretty much the #1 thing Samsung was using to bash Apple these last few years, and thats being taken away from them. All they have left is the ****** stylus, and their horrific "multitasking" gimmicks. Because, you know, I've always wanted to watch a movie trailer that takes up 1/6th of my phone's screen while replying to email. As well resizing windows on my phone using a pen. It's just such a rational, enjoyable, and practical thing to do.



I'm not sure what the worst thing was about this ad. The nauseatingly smug voice of the narrator? The confusing messaging? The fact that they actually showed off tweets they paid for as part of the ad (with 4 retweets!) in order to bash the iPhone and promote their product? The fact that they're advertising to everyone that Apple now has a bigger phone?



Samsung must be horrified at the fact that the "tiny" 5S mopped the floor with anything they released sales wise. Now, they're completely ****ed and they know it. Touch ID, Apple Pay, 2nd gen 64 bit cpus, iOS8, a massive increase in extensibility, 3 screen sizes, etc. All they have left is their **** software gimmicks implemented on an OS they don't even control, and hardware that doesn't seem so impressive anymore and unable to touch iPhone in critical areas like biometrics, energy efficiency, performance, build quality, camera, etc. Samsung used to at least be able to run a list of hardware features the iPhone was lacking. Now there's nothing left. Completely ****ed.
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These Ads are really starting to get old. It's like that one guy at work that keeps telling the same joke over and over again.
 
Apple has never claimed to be the first in anything.

And there's an intrinsic difference between increasing screen size and blatantly ripping off patented ideas.
 
jm001 said:
Wow, Samsung is now the one dishing out the kool aid. They seem to depict themselves as the first one to roll out a phablet or big screen phone and Apple copied them. How come they never mention that the first phablet was really the Dell Streak and it took Samsung about 1.5 years later to bring out the Note or how Huwei makes a bigger screen than Samsung? Samsung's crown is getting tighter as it's head gets bigger.
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Well, as what happens all too often in his world, the "winners" get to
re-write history. And let's all be honest, they have won the phablet war
a long time ago -- Apple is just starting a new war with the iPhone 6+.
 
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a.coward said:
Well, as what happens all too often in his world, the "winners" get to
re-write history. And let's all be honest, they are won the phablet war
a long time ago -- Apple is just starting a new war with the iPhone 6+.
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I think its a safe bet that the iPhone 6 plus will sell more than any Android tablet combined.
 
MentalFloss said:
It's interesting how many people have forgotten the PC vs Mac commercials.

Or Ellen Feiss for that matter. Beep, beep, beep. The stupid PC ate my homework!

Yes, those commercials are petty, but don't act as if Apple were above that. It's not like Tim Cook never mentioned any competitors by name in his keynotes to get a cheap laugh from the audience. The way to react to this is to ignore it and to let the customers make up their minds.
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For the record, Cook has never mentioned Samsung by name in his comments. He mentioned Google specifically as Apple's chief competitor in interviews. And has joked about people switching from Android to iOS.

Apple's competitor is the monolithic platform that is Android. Samsung is currently the strongest OEM, but that's subject to change quite rapidly, and they're experiencing significant competition from HTC & Motorola on the high/mid-end and Huawei and a variety of Chinese OEM's on the low-end.

There's very little to distinguish flagship Samsung devices from high-end Android competitors these days, other than the fact that they have the worst Android skin available.
 
I don't know anyone who uses the s-pen and I really don't know anyone who uses the multi window thing. But if you are one who does more power to you. I have talked to a ton of people who own that phone who don't know half the stuff it can do and don't care to learn they just see the big screen and think it's got to be better. But now that apple has a phablet tons of those same people want that. So who's to say what is better lol.
 
a.coward said:
Well, as what happens all too often in his world, the "winners" get to
re-write history. And let's all be honest, they are won the phablet war
a long time ago -- Apple is just starting a new war with the iPhone 6+.
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How exactly are you defining winning? By being first? I'd hardly call that winning.

Apple has, in the past, beat Samsung in sales with a smaller iPhone. Now that apple has release not one, but two bigger iPhones, I don't see that trend ending anytime soon.
 
RayDonovan said:
I think its a safe bet that the iPhone 6 plus will sell more than any Android tablet combined.
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Please don't call it a tablet, or I'll consider cancelling my order. I am already scared enough that at some point, the 6 Plus will break my weak 3.5 inch-trained wrist when I try to lift it. ;)
 
SirJankovic said:
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.
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i also have some complaints (actually only the protruding camera), but

try using a samsung for a while. See how it feels. Then go back to iPhone. You'll know the difference and you'll know it's not about features, it's about how they're implemented.

The fingerprint stuff, the iCloud syncing, find my iphone.. all vastly superior to the competition.

Hardware wise i like the nexus line, but with android on it, it'll never live up to my standards.
 
So can we get Samsung to produce a crappy Mac Mini clone as well?
Maybe then Apple will release the long overdue update..:p
 
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