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New Samsung Galaxy S4 Ad Pokes Fun at iPhone

cdmoore74 said:
The S4 and HTC one has built in IR ports. With the iphone you need a external dongle or blue tooth. By this time next year android should have some pretty powerful IR learning apps.
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IR is pointless on a phone. I have the new Logitech Harmony Ultimate + 2 more repeaters round the house.

I can use the app to start anything. control the lights / blinds open the garage etc.

All the new TV's and AVRs have Wireless / bluetooth 4 controllers now.

This ad is typical Samsung crap. As pointed out in most of the reviews half that stuff doesn't work! Or worse works when you don't want it to.

And yet another Ad that is basically old and stupid if you own anything other than a samsung. 'Bully' advertising is terrible and just puts peoples backs up.

That one from last with the Queue of people waiting the iphone was the same and scored terribly with the public and actually made watchers feel stupid/angry. But Samsung will never learn. Did that NY launch teach them nothing...
 
Pointless for YOU.

No - not all new TVs have wireless/bluetooth. Not by a longshot.

There's nothing bullying about this ad. Why do you feel anyone is being victimized? Because a character in a commercial stated that another person's phone doesn't have a feature.

Apple advertises that they only have Siri. That's accurate. So was Samsung's statement. Apple states that Android is fragmented. Is that bullying? Is that insulting customers?



prowlmedia said:
IR is pointless on a phone. I have the new Logitech Harmony Ultimate + 2 more repeaters round the house.

I can use the app to start anything. control the lights / blinds open the garage etc.

All the new TV's and AVRs have Wireless / bluetooth 4 controllers now.

This ad is typical Samsung crap. As pointed out in most of the reviews half that stuff doesn't work! Or worse works when you don't want it to.

And yet another Ad that is basically old and stupid if you own anything other than a samsung. 'Bully' advertising is terrible and just puts peoples backs up.

That one from last with the Queue of people waiting the iphone was the same and scored terribly with the public and actually made watchers feel stupid/angry. But Samsung will never learn. Did that NY launch teach them nothing...
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Nimrad said:
This is a really risky game Samsung is playing. Research show that bashing the competitor in commercials is extremely risky. I, personally like Apple's new commercial a loooot more. And I would have if it was a Samsung ad and Apple made this one bashing Samsung.

The new Apple ad appeals to feelings!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCMLaz1yhok
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One of the biggest complaints against phones that have Android is that the ads never showed off what the phone could do - they were all robots, futuristic, etc ads that did nothing to sell the phone other than to say "wow - look at this phone."

I give credit to Samsung for showing what the phone can do - and not just with a spec sheet - but real world use cases.
 
vividmethod said:
Oh please. Apple has been trying to destroy its competitors through advertising since DAY ONE.

And to render your comment moot, here's another apple ad basically showing every non-apple consumer as a lemming;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYP1Tjgt1Ao

Quite the irony, no?
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The very first Mac ad, the 1984 ad, did the same thing. Apple has a long history of bashing their more successful competitors and painting themselves as the scrappy little underdog.

For most of Apple's history, that was the prevailing meme. Once Apple finally made a popular product, the iPod, things changed. At that point, the meme became "Apple is good because so many people buy it".

They are still riding the "we're so popular" wave, most recently with their "Billions of apps downloaded" promotion of the iStore.

At what point will Apple have lost so much marketshare that they will be forced to go back to their "The few, the proud" shtick?

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ArtOfWarfare said:
Thus Apple has historically poked fun at Intel (when they used PPC) and Microsoft (when Windows was 10+x as common as OS X.)
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C'mon. Windows is STILL 10x (+/-) as popular as OSX. Nothing has changed there.
 
as if ppl are actually going to use all those features, on daily basis, even those exisiting on S3 or Note II, I do not actually see any actual users use those features.
I have to admit that not all features are widely used on iPhone as well
buttom line is that Apple smartphone and Samsung smartphone are equally the same
 
Samsung essentially took the S3, upgraded the internals to the latest standard, which everybody was expecting. The design of the phone is , let's face it, downright boring. It doesn't stir any emotions whatsoever.

So they stuffed it with useless gimmicks, which will hardly be used in real world. In fact, the make the OS bloated and slow. With all the processing power it considerable more laggy than, for example, a HTC One.
No wonder Samsung paid students in Taiwan to bash HTC products in public forums. :rolleyes:

Classy, they are not. This ad is another example of Samsung's Modus Operandi

On top of that they introduce this boring rehash around the world in ridiculous shows, like in US -or lately- in India, where the journalist attending the S4 introduction where almost to embarrassed to applaud to what was presented to them.

But the big a$$ Samsung marketing machine is running and they will find enough SSheep to follow their quest. There are plenty of them in this very forum already.

I certainly don't view my Samsung Note through pink glasses. Sometimes to switch apps takes aaaaages, especially the gallery app has become slow and useless. Well, at least with the latest upgrade to JB it won't crash that often anymore and I have to reboot it only once a week. :rolleyes:
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Controlling your TV? Kind of meh - I suspect that it doesn't work with most TV models or with most of the other devices in your entertainment system, given most of them probably use IR to communicate.
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Suspect again (or guess again) that it works perfectly well with most TV models and with most other devices. Because the S4 uses IR to communicate.

That is one of the things that killed me when I switched to an iPhone. I was used to my old Palm devices, including my Treo, doubling as a TV remote control. I liked my 3GS for about a day and a half, until those sorts of deficiencies started to show up with increasing regularity. I'm glad to see phones are now going back to having an IR capability.
 
Control TV... accept call when your hands are greasy after eating fat turkey... and 'bump' when you're not smart enough to mail a picture and close enough (0,09% of all cases) to another person with the same phone and issues... In fact these are the features for the older parent-like figures.
 
Zachari said:
There is a big difference between making fun of other products, and making fun of the users. If anyone's head needs to get out of an ass.. It's yours. Be nice.
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PC users are Lemmings. They are so faceless and compliant that they do just what they are told, with fatal consequences. That much has been established.
 
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genovelle said:
If only the some of the features weren't available on all Apple device via the App Store for two years.
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similar but not nearly as good. bump uses network. as does all the remote apps. while sbeam uses nfc and the remote uses an actual IR.
 
ikir said:
The only users I know using Samsung Galaxy are usually the tech retarded and old users and sometime the ultra nerd android evangelist.
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"As of January 13, 2013, the combined total sales of the Samsung Galaxy S, SII, and SIII have surpassed 100,000,000."

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/0...sales-soar-past-40m-apple-cuts-iphone-orders/

So much for your sweeping awareness of the market. Do the users you know comprise more than .00000000001% of the market?

Maybe .00000000002%? At most?

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fullauto said:
12 more months.. if the iP6 doesn't offer a bigger screen I'll seriously consider it.
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Simply use a magnifying glass. Problem solved.

Meanwhile, those of us who do not have hands the size of dinner plates like the fact that the screen on the iPhone is the perfect size and that we do not need to wear clown pants to fit the phone in our pockets. The vast majority of people do not want a big screen, or, at least, they won't know that they want a big screen until Apple tells them that they do.


/s

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Chaos123x said:
They should of just focused on "hey we have gigantic screen". Oh well.
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But everybody already knows that the iPhone has a tiny screen compared with normal cellphones.
 
stewy said:
Yes, it's not like Apple ever made fun of PCs or anything... Oh wait... Get your head out of your ass.
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what on earth are you talking about? "PC" was not Microsoft nor named makers HP, Dell, etc... it was just a generic PC and never attributed to being any one.
 
Of course Samsung would have to pretend that the gap between the S4 and the iPhone 5 is larger than it actually is, while the opposite is true. You may argue that the S4 is superior in terms of hardware and software, as iOS could have gotten some more love recently, but apart from that I think we have reached a bit of a stalemate when it comes to new features. Air gestures and bump-to-share are not going to persuade me to buy another expensive phone anytime soon, neither did the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.

It reminds me of the time when phones were distinguished by the amount of megapixels of the camera, the more the better. Nowadays it seems like trivial features have to satisfy the need the the latest and greatest phone.
 
theanimaster said:
A lot of those 'air' gesture features fail to work properly. They're good for proof-of-concept and showing off, but otherwise so unreliable you won't be using them normally.
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I do admit many of the features do not work well but if there is one that works well and does not fail is air gesture, plase try it before making an unfounded judgement.

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irnchriz said:
Hmm, on further reading it appears that you can only store apps on the internal storage so you would be stuck with only 8GB for apps. That's pretty weak.
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That's not really an issue, large games install their largest files on the SD on startup.

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Rogifan said:
Difference is what was the market share of Mac vs PC? If Samsung was some scrappy upstart or had really low market share I could maybe understand them poking fun at a competitor this way. But they're not. They sell more phones than any other company in the world. So wouldn't it make sense for them to just ignore Apple all together?
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iPhone 5 has and will hold a much larger marketshare over the S4.
 
The ability to answer the phone without touching it is cool. But it still won't get me to buy their phone. It would be cool if Apple could do something similar.
 
So you just wave your hand in front of it to answer it? That seems like it opens it up to being accidentally answered a lot more than the slide to unlock. I can think of quite a few awkward situations that opens up, especially if they have a facetime equivalent.
 
I just don't like Samsung as a company, and seeing them produce iPhone knockoffs that are progressing faster than iPhones is irritating.

Get on the friggin ball already, Apple.


Though, that holding your finger over something til the cameras figure it out seems fairly corny.
 
Pretty weak ad. Most of these features that they're showing off have to be in very specific situations to actually make them practical. It's like they're trying so hard to make people think of their product as the cooler alternative to the iPhone but instead it just comes off looking silly to me.
 
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