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Samsung Bashes iPad's Screen, Lack of Multitasking in New Galaxy Tab S Ads

Considering how badly sales for Samsung's tablets have been going compared to the iPad, is anyone really going to be surprised? They've already showed that they completely lack taste, so why should they suddenly have a sense of taste? Design wise they don't know how to make anything except generic crap and copying others. The copying goes way further back than the iPhone as before Apple, it was Nokia who they were ripping off.

At least it's not as classless as Motorola's "1984" tablet ad they put up during the superbowl a few years ago...
 
SanJacinto said:
But this is Apple. I really love this company but for Apple it is always "only one feature at a time".

I mean after 4 years of iPad we still don't have split screen?
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Correct me if I'm wrong... but isn't the split screen thing a Samsung thing?

If so... it's not just the iPad that doesn't have it... most other tablets don't have it either.

So I gotta wonder... how important is split screen after all?

And is it worthy of an entire TV commercial?

Samsung made a big deal about other things like their Eye-Scroll thing and Video-Pause-When-You-Look-Away thing. Then they were forgotten.

Is this one of those things too? We hear about it for a few days and then it's never discussed again?

Have you really been waiting 4 years for split screen? As in... you won't buy an iPad until is has that one feature? For your sake I hope Apple gets it soon.

Otherwise... you'll have to get a Samsung Galaxy NoteTab 10.1 2014 Edition or whatever it's called :)
 
The time for Apple to be concerned

Is when Samsung no longer feel the need to try to bash Apple. This just proves how worried they are.
 
Course from what we know, Apple in iOS 8 is going to have multitasking. So in 2 months this commercial will be moot anyways.
 
MH01 said:
Same result. Apple took the piss out of PCs. And some if those ads were quite insulting to PC users. Yeah as an apple fan they were funny, as a PC user they were insulting and some of them were frankly BS just like the samsung ads

Apple were the master io this form of advertising, and Samsung are just copying them.
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I guess "insulting" by association? Because I can't see how making a commercial where "PC" gets more viruses somehow means that PC users contract more viruses. Apple was saying they catch the flu more or something in your view?
 
andys54 said:
Is when Samsung no longer feel the need to try to bash Apple. This just proves how worried they are.
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Samsung isn't worried. I'm an Apple fanboy to every definition, but it's Apple who should be worried. I'm the guy who has, for years, bought Apple products for the eco system and have been willing to trade off the latest cool technologies and little features for the ecosystem of being able to seamlessly sync, etc.

But that time is over.

When Apple came out with the current (battery and processor + ssd) I was almost a foot out the door in buying a Sony Vaio. Apple got the MBA air out late, but saved me. Now feels like I'm in the same boat with iPad... and iPhone, but what I see on the horizon in iOS 8 is much too little, and definitely too late. So they're going to continue to lose loyalists who have put so much faith in Apple and watched the innovation just completely stagnate.

We'll see what comes. I'm optimistic, but anyone who says Samsung is just bashing, yeah, that's called sales and marketing. When you're the challenger in the market, you hi light differences in what your product can do. If you're going into a restaurant and pitching a dishwasher, you don't tell them how great your product is, you ask someone "what do you wish your dishwasher could do?" and then sell the fact that yours can do twice what theirs can do.
 
blackcrayon said:
I guess "insulting" by association? Because I can't see how making a commercial where "PC" gets more viruses somehow means that PC users contract more viruses. Apple was saying they catch the flu more or something in your view?
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Exactly.

I wish people would realize that the actors in those commercials were pretending to be the computers.

Sometimes I wish they had just used cartoons instead. It might have been less confusing.

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Michael Scrip said:
Correct me if I'm wrong... but isn't the split screen thing a Samsung thing?

If so... it's not just the iPad that doesn't have it... most other tablets don't have it either.

So I gotta wonder... how important is split screen after all?

And is it worthy of an entire TV commercial?

Samsung made a big deal about other things like their Eye-Scroll thing and Video-Pause-When-You-Look-Away thing. Then they were forgotten.

Is this one of those things too? We hear about it for a few days and then it's never discussed again?

Have you really been waiting 4 years for split screen? As in... you won't buy an iPad until is has that one feature? For your sake I hope Apple gets it soon.

Otherwise... you'll have to get a Samsung Galaxy NoteTab 10.1 2014 Edition or whatever it's called :)
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Great post, you took the words right out of my mouth.
 
shenan1982 said:
Now feels like I'm in the same boat with iPad... and iPhone, but what I see on the horizon in iOS 8 is much too little, and definitely too late. So they're going to continue to lose loyalists who have put so much faith in Apple and watched the innovation just completely stagnate.
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With iOS 8, Apple is introducing some of the best new (to iOS) features they have in years. I'm not sure what you were looking for, but the update looks to be great- extensions, continuity, a new way of developing Apps, higher performance for games (Metal), 3rd party keyboards, iCloud drive, and a whole host of smaller improvements. Seems like a pretty exciting update. And Apple still has some of the best overall hardware and performance. So, "too late" for what, exactly?
 
Burger Thing said:
Samsung's quarterly results in the Mobile Segments have not been looking so great lately and it shows. They are getting more and more aggressive in targeting Apple. But they should rather concentrate on their competitors in the Android segment, as other manufacturers start to offer better products.

Desperate times for them it seems. They come across as trying too hard.
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Perhaps Apple is easier as its a new market. HTC and LG are creating very nice devices, the S5 was an underwhelming flop, and this is my read on my local forum from Samsung users.

Im an Apple fan, but an unbiased viewpoint is that this is deperate
 
The other thing, is that I can count the amount of times I've wished my iPad could do split screen with zero fingers (never).

The Galaxy Tab may do it, whooppee doo, but just because one product does something, it absolutely shouldn't mean others should too.

I just don't get this "me too" attitude, with people almost burning their iDevices and saying that they're "leaving" Apple over it, just because their device doesn't have a feature that another device does.

For me, Apple have great products, with great features that suit me & my needs perfectly and I have enough faith in them that they will continue to serve those needs really well, without just adding "features" for the sake of it.
 
billystlyes said:
Honestly, Samsung is pulling away in Apple. Maybe not in sales, but in features and trying new things out. Same thing goes for Google. Apple is like a Microsoft of the 2000s. They have market share and cash, but don't push things. They wait and let other people try things out and push technology. Then they come in an and try to steal the market. Im sorry to say, but the true innovation and magic died with Steve. Watching and waiting on Apple is like watching paint dry. The fun and magic is gone....
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No, no and no. Apple doesn't push things is comment of the year.

1) 64bit (Samsung copied)
2) Touch ID (Samsung copied it miserably)
3) continuity (new)
4) homekit (new)
5) health kit (new)
7) SWIFT (new)
8) METAL (new)
ETC
The true innovations and magic hasn't died omg. These damn Steve jobs comments do my head in.
Apple doesn't wait for other companies to try out things, they wait till they can implement them probably. If they would be like Samsung we would get a ****** tablet OS, ****** fingerprint reader and so on,
Apple are the real innovators in areas you don't even know. If you think Samsung is pushing things because of multitasking and their stylus crap than you have no clue.
 
shenan1982 said:
Samsung isn't worried. I'm an Apple fanboy to every definition, but it's Apple who should be worried.
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You're simply wrong on this one.

Samsung should be and will be worried.

It's them (and not Apple), that are forecasting lower than expected earnings.

The Galaxy S5 has not been as well received as they would have liked and the iPhone 6 is likely to light up all of our TVs and radios come September, with reports that sales are (again) nothing short of astounding.
 
blackcrayon said:
With iOS 8, Apple is introducing some of the best new (to iOS) features they have in years. I'm not sure what you were looking for, but the update looks to be great- extensions, continuity, a new way of developing Apps, higher performance for games (Metal), 3rd party keyboards, iCloud drive, and a whole host of smaller improvements. Seems like a pretty exciting update. And Apple still has some of the best overall hardware and performance. So, "too late" for what, exactly?
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Many of these are old Android features. I accept that. SJ was GREAT, his smartphone by by no means no the first smartphone, but it was the first modern smartphone. His passing left a gap. His aggressive and restrictive system, was not what the market is now. TC has taken the reins, allowed time to go by, now he is making his mark. Catchup of features, bigger screen iPhone, it will equalise. Then, you will have iOS being feature rich, and secure, and still a walled garden, where is Androids advantage??

Samsungs market is Android, they seemingly cannot compete there, see S5, so they compete with Apple which is a new market. They are on the downhill slide, Apple will remove Samsung as a component supplier. I expect Apple will compete with Microsoft, Android will slide. Androids use of 500 models, non updateable, no real ecosystem, will fade compared to Apple and Microsoft/Lumia/Xbox another real ecosystem

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Michael Scrip said:
Correct me if I'm wrong... but isn't the split screen thing a Samsung thing?

If so... it's not just the iPad that doesn't have it... most other tablets don't have it either.

So I gotta wonder... how important is split screen after all?

And is it worthy of an entire TV commercial?

Samsung made a big deal about other things like their Eye-Scroll thing and Video-Pause-When-You-Look-Away thing. Then they were forgotten.

Is this one of those things too? We hear about it for a few days and then it's never discussed again?

Have you really been waiting 4 years for split screen? As in... you won't buy an iPad until is has that one feature? For your sake I hope Apple gets it soon.

Otherwise... you'll have to get a Samsung Galaxy NoteTab 10.1 2014 Edition or whatever it's called :)
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Then, all you hear about is removable batteries. Do the Tab have them, no
 
masteroflondon said:
Daft question. The Samsung has stereo, you know. So it has two speakers? Now just give each stream one speaker and you're both happy. Sure it's only mono, but I'm sure the next tablet will have 4 speakers so you both get stereo.
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Say what. You would be both unhappy because you cannot hear jack because of 2 audio tracks. DUH
Your reply is daft
 
I wish Samsung disappears overtime and a company with some etiquette becomes Android's new ''leader''
 
Is it true about the AMOLED? Can we expect it soon from Apple too or is Samsung just doing a marketing gimmick?
 
as ads to me they both feel like a mess. the narrators voice, the music everything is dreadful imo.

feels like a big step down from some of samsungs previous ads. it feels to forced.
 
myrtlebee said:
Anybody else getting right click menu popups when they tap to play YouTube videos like these on their iPad (I have an iPad mini if it matters)? Didn't have this problem yesterday.
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yeah, I get this on my iPhone when watching youtube outside the YouTube app - like in Safari or in Facebook. Weird and annoying. But I will never get a Samsung:)
 
Actually I liked these adverts for one reason.

They actually focused on key points, and you can tell, how they hit a nerve due to the amount of postings here.

It's like someone saying, "no I'm not bothered" and then spending the remainder of the week going on and on and on about just why they are not bothered.

Samsung have been good recently at pretty much hitting bulls-eye band on the nerve which is causing so many people posting here to defend points.

1st we has iPhone batter life.
2nd we had no slit screen multitasking.
3rd we had the contrast in the different screen technologies.

The funny part is that if Apple had better battery life, split screen multitasking, and better contrast screens that needed no backlight, then people here would be ripping into Samsung for their poor battery, only one app on screen as a time and old screen tech.

Deny it all you like but that's the reality of what it would be like.

Split screen WILL be loved when Apple do it.
Better battery will be loved, if Apple stop making things thinner and fit better batteries.
A better contrast screen will be loved when Apple do it.

You only have to search these forums, or Google for all the iPad screen complaints.

We've seen it before. the iPad mini is now loved, despite all the protests before Apple make it, and likewise the larger iPhone will be loved, despite all the protests before Apple made it.

The same will happens with iPad enhancements.
 
re: Actually I liked these adverts for one reason.

"Better battery will be loved, if Apple stop making things thinner and fit better batteries."
That I'll give you, the rest of your argument is just junk. And when Samsung do something about upgrades to their OS which permit users to keep their mobe's longer than a year in the sure knowledge it's up to date, then they'll have something for Apple to be concerned about. Oh, and making more money than Apple do of course. Till then, Apple are sitting pretty and their customers are in heaven.
 
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