Samsung's back to a familiar advertising tactic in its latest Galaxy S9 video - making fun of Apple. The new "Ingenius: Speed" ad shared this afternoon by Samsung pokes fun at the Genius Bar while touting Samsung's faster download speeds.
In the video, a customer at the "Ingenius" bar that resembles an Apple Store asks about the iPhone X's download speeds compared to the Galaxy S9's speeds, leaving the Apple retail employee unable to respond.
Customer: So the iPhone X doesn't have the fastest download speeds.
Genius: It is faster than the iPhone 8.
Customer: But the download speeds aren't faster than the Galaxy S9. I thought it was the "smartphone of the future."
Genius: Um...
Samsung's new video, and its Galaxy S9 website, are touting its LTE performance scores on Ookla's Speedtest Intelligence Data from February to April 2018. Ookla, for those unfamiliar, uses real-world user-submitted speed test results and aggregates LTE speeds from a variety of devices.
In
Ookla's spring speed tests, the Galaxy S9, which is equipped with Qualcomm's X20 LTE chip, was 37 percent faster than the iPhone X and 43 percent faster than the iPhone 8, on average.
The iPhone X is equipped with either Qualcomm's Snapdragon X16 or Intel's XMM7480 LTE chip, depending on model, which does indeed have lower theoretical maximum download speeds than the X20. While the Galaxy S9 and S9+ are faster than the current iPhones when it comes to download speeds, rumors suggest Apple is making improvements with its 2018 iPhone lineup.
Apple is planning to introduce
improved antenna technology for faster connection speeds, along with
dual-SIM dual standby functionality. Apple's new iPhones
may use Intel's XMM 7560 and Qualcomm's X20 chips, both of which are faster than the LTE chips in the current iPhone X.
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Samsung Ad Pokes Fun at Apple Genius Bar and Touts Faster Galaxy S9 LTE Speeds
What’s the use of faster download speeds if I have to use a suck-ass pathetic excuse for an operating system like the ugly kludge that is Android?
I am, as anyone who has read like, 90% of my posts can probably say, pretty critical of Apple, and nearly every stupid, awful thing it has done lately, but for Samsung to make an ad out of a straw man argument like that, hey... if Apple touts their latest iPhone as the iPhone of the future, no one can make anything that is in any way, shape or form superior to it ever, or it retroactively looses all right to that claim... the argument is absurd.
Try this on for size. Customer who bought whatever is Samsung’s latest and greatest phone walks up to the counter where they sell Samsung Galaxy S25s and says, “I thought the Samsung Galaxy S25” (or whatever) “was supposed to be the phone of the future, but this flashlight has longer battery life, and has a brighter, more focused beam, far better to use when looking for something in the dark, than the puny light built into a Galaxy Samsung 25S phone, (or whatever,) ... hmmmm?!? What now, huh? What NOW?!?
Then another customer walks in with a boom box, and complains that the Galsung Samsaxy 52S is supposed to be the phone of the future, but the puny, weak-ass little speakers are nowhere NEAR as powerful as the ones on his boom box, which sports 6” woofers, 2” midrange and a set of amazingly sweet little tweeters... while the Galohone Samsmart S25 has what, a little piezoelectric POS? WHAT A JOKE!
There’s such a thing as a good point, and Samsung needs to learn what that is, so when they eventually have one, they’ll be able to recognize it. This... isn’t it.
The counterpoint if you like is to point out that the Samaxy Galsung takes FOREVER to open an iOS application. In fact, I don’t think they can even do it. And that’s kinda the point. People don’t necessarily buy an iPhone because it’s the greatest in every conceivable way... it’s because it’s what they want, and I’ll tell you, from my last several experiences with the nightmare pile of pig feces that is Android, it will be a cold day in hell before I buy any phone running Android. I love Linux, (GNU/LINUX) and admire the hell out of what the FL/OSS community has done, but Android is... Android is like when a beautiful couple who are wonderful people have a kid that seems to have come directly from Satan and murders them, and all their friends, and then runs off into the woods to eat dead animals raw and cover himself in his own filth.
I hate some of the shenanigans Apple has pulled, but I still have an iPhone, because, in large part, it’s an iPhone. Not because it downloads something slightly faster, or because it’s bristling with superfluous rear facing cameras. It’s because it does what I need it to do. And it’s not an ugly, stupid, crappy Android PoGDMFs. Eff Android, and Samsung too, because this is BS.
OH HEY... I thought the Salamung Gamax25s Y was supposed to be the phone of the future, but my GE refrigerator is WAY better at keeping my fresh fruits and vegetables cold... see what a stupid, mindless “point” that is?