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Samsung Again Caught Inflating Benchmarking Scores, Phil Schiller Calls 'Shenanigans'
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I haven't 'thrown a tantrum', did you read my post and realise I have actually NOT defended Samsung and now changed your wording then? seems like it. Also those TV ads only show the features the iPhone lacks really. Like NFC for one. But hey I didn't feel insulted by them, then again I've never queued for several hours to buy a phone
And Phil Schiller is not exactly an Apple employee in the same light as a store assistant! He is a well known Apple executive who should behave better rather than stoke the fire.
"Like NFC for one"
You and all the rest pining for NFC really need to cross it off the list as a must have feature; it's so yesterday.
iBeacon is going big and even you Androidites will be using it, courtesy of BLE.
That is all.
You must have misread something completely.
The ArsTechnica article wasn't in any way about Apple. It was about Samsung being caught cheating _for the second time_. If we look at crap "smart" watches, websites showing the most fugly gold-coloured phones one could imagine, and repeated cheating at benchmarks, it is quite obvious that Samsung is afraid of something or someone.
You're getting rid of all your Apple products with Samsung made parts inside them then?
Hey Farva,what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy sh!! on the walls and the mozzarella sticks??
Super Troopers FTW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZG8KQJni8
It seems you are having a difficult time understanding my post, which is honestly a bit astonishing. Go back and reread what I asked and then come back when you understand the question I asked the other person.
Absolutely. When Apple does it, it's not innovation. But next year, when Samsung uses 64 bit processors, it will be innovation.
About as classy as Apple and antennagate with Jobs bagging out every other vendor saying they have the same issue.
iB.... who??? So next thing I've never heard of it. And congratulations on an incorrect assumption calling me an 'Androidite', I bet next you'll tell me I have a Samsung Galaxy
Nope, NFC has been adopted as a standard which the banks have got behind too, the banks are never going to back an Apple only system that locks you into it. Never.
So yes NFC is useful. And hardly last gen, but I guess if Apple didn't invent it then it must be rubbish right?
Not many people buy on specs alone, but specs, if objective, can be useful, particularly if someone is trying to decide between two Android devices. If both run the same software, are similar in size, have similar features, and the same price, but one looks 20% faster, it's hard to fault a customer who makes a decision based on the benchmarks.
Which is why what Samsung is doing is messed up.
Imagine you were buying something and see the benchmarks and you buy it realizing you can prob. OC and get a little extra, but instead the manufacturer decides to do the standard benchmark while having the hardware OC w/ them telling you that is the standard power.
Don't try to defend liars, they lie and got caught. I would say the same thing if it was Apple, and prob. all types of media would be all over it.
Apple A6, A6X and A7 are custom designed chips using the ARM architecture. The A7 uses the ARMv8 architecture which support 64-bit instructions in comparison to previous versions. They aren't based on an ARM design (Cortex) like previous chips. So, the architecture isn't from Apple, but the design yes.
iB.... who??? So next thing I've never heard of it. And congratulations on an incorrect assumption calling me an 'Androidite', I bet next you'll tell me I have a Samsung Galaxy
Nope, NFC has been adopted as a standard which the banks have got behind too, the banks are never going to back an Apple only system that locks you into it. Never.
So yes NFC is useful. And hardly last gen, but I guess if Apple didn't invent it then it must be rubbish right?
In Europe, maybe, but the banks and retailers here in the US haven't agreed on anything. Apple's core market is the US, where they have 40% of the market. It's a free-for-all right now (sort of like how we never standardized on a single wireless voice communication standard). Apple quite well may be able to establish a de facto standard here.
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Plus I'm sure they'll keep "innovating" by making the screen 0.1" bigger.
Still won't be innovation.
It wouldn't be innovation if Nokia did it either, or HTC, or Googlerola, or Microsoft, or Jolla, or... well, I could go on, but you get the point.
If I had a dollar for every time I had to read this same response in this thread...
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they keep on doing it!!!!!!!! How many time do you need to be caught wearing no clothes Emperor Samsung?
Getting nervous in S. Korea? Yea, maybe just a little.
they keep on doing it!!!!!!!! How many time do you need to be caught wearing no clothes Emperor Samsung?
Getting nervous in S. Korea? Yea, maybe just a little.
I was gonna say, isn't that what the Android people care about about? 4 cores, clock speeds, number of inches, pixels per inch, 41 megapixels, etc.?
It's not fake in the sense that the processors can put out that much power. It is fake in the sense that they only put out that much power when running a benchmark app. They are throttled on all other apps to achieve better battery life, and possibly so as not to burn out the processors due to overheating.