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Samsung Bashes iPad's Screen, Lack of Multitasking in New Galaxy Tab S Ads
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It would certainly be awesome. Now why couldn't Samsung advertise those features instead of the least likely scenario of two people using one tablet at the same time. To watch TV shows, no less.
Who else would they be talking about? Samsung and Apple are the two top dogs in mobile right now. You think they're talking about the http://www.walmart.com/ip/Double-Power-7-Tablet-8GB-Memory-Dual-Core-Bonus-Kit/29340913 Double Power?
What you described is exactly, unabashedly Apple's business strategy. And guess who pioneered that? Yes. Steve Jobs, the same guy who loved the line "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
They did it with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Also, Steve didn't design these products all by himself from scratch. But many of those who worked with Steve are still in the company. Particularly, Johnny Ive, Steve's golden boy who gets flak now for his designs while people scoff at how much things have changed since Steve died.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
The only issues I have with Samsung ads is they never show any real life situations. Who sits next to each other and watches the same movie on different tablets in the same room. I could think of million other ways to show the benefits of a better screen. All the ads do is show that all Samsung user do is carry around their tablets just to bash iPad users.
In the 2nd ad:
Maybe that scene was meant to be that dark and the Samsung screen is just washed out.
Maybe the producers of that media intended it to be deeper/dark blacks.
One thing is for sure, the current iPad screen has almost perfect color richness and contrast that produces a flawless recreation of the original media. Its very accurate.
So Id venture to say the Samsung screen is inaccurate if its that bright lol.
Maybe that scene was meant to be that dark and the Samsung screen is just washed out.
Maybe the producers of that media intended it to be deeper/dark blacks.
One thing is for sure, the current iPad screen has almost perfect color richness and contrast that produces a flawless recreation of the original media. Its very accurate.
So Id venture to say the Samsung screen is inaccurate if its that bright lol.
Yes, telling someone the product they use is inferior is exactly the same as telling someone they're stupid for choosing to purchase said product. Thanks for clearing that up.
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So having no multi-tasking is a GOOD thing? Leave it to the fanboys to make a total lemon into a slushee....
I don't care if the Samsung sucks in every other regard. It doesn't change the fact that Apple has waited forever to add basic multi-tasking. I haven't had that kind of CRAP since MS-Dos (although come to think of it the Classic Mac OS didn't really multi-task either which explains why I never even considered one until OS X came out.) I'm just saying stop making excuses for Apple's shortcomings. People should demand better features and more options or it will kick them in the arse in the long run.
I feel like many others on here suspect that macrumors must be taking cash from Samsung to post this on front page, it's a non story and definitely not a RUMOUR!
Samsung again seems to think that explaining one benifit makes a sale? Come on guys your ad department sucks just go and get someone who can do it right and with originality.
Amoled has pretty much been bashed since it came out for blue tinge, change in colors over time due to organic nature of the screen, poor color accuracy over hyped contrast and saturation, cartoony looks and most recently image ghosting on screens! Amoled is ugly especially pentile displays like Samsung use which regardless of screen resolution still can't display straight lines properly and have huge black gaps between pixels which translate to unpleasant viewing.
Multitasking is a bit of a grey area, I think some people will like it for maybe watching a film and checking Facebook, but for most men we can't do two things at once anyway.
I have a laptop and still only work on one window at a time, a second screen is sometimes used when using visualisations for projects that are ignored most of the time, but screen sharing on one screen seems just pointless for most people.
Samsung again seems to think that explaining one benifit makes a sale? Come on guys your ad department sucks just go and get someone who can do it right and with originality.
Amoled has pretty much been bashed since it came out for blue tinge, change in colors over time due to organic nature of the screen, poor color accuracy over hyped contrast and saturation, cartoony looks and most recently image ghosting on screens! Amoled is ugly especially pentile displays like Samsung use which regardless of screen resolution still can't display straight lines properly and have huge black gaps between pixels which translate to unpleasant viewing.
Multitasking is a bit of a grey area, I think some people will like it for maybe watching a film and checking Facebook, but for most men we can't do two things at once anyway.
I have a laptop and still only work on one window at a time, a second screen is sometimes used when using visualisations for projects that are ignored most of the time, but screen sharing on one screen seems just pointless for most people.
Samsung also did a poor implementation of it in their software.
Windows 8 does it much better, IMO.
I think the iPad needs a good way to use two apps collaboratively and split-screen might be the way... but it needs to be done well. Samsung is pretty clueless when it comes to software UI so their the last company you want coming up with this stuff.
Why do they say things like "ahh it's not super AMOLED..."
That sounds so condescending and pretentious. Apple made the PC vs Mac commercials where apple did the exact same job of pointing out apple's supposed superiority at something. However, the way Justin Long spoke was natural and polite, as was the PC. Neither the Mac or Pc came a cross as snarky or snobbish.
Maybe it's because I have Apple bias but I often find Samsung's apple bashing adds off putting and created by people who aren't doing a good job of converting apple customers to their brand.
Samsung makes great hardware and I appreciate them like any company that makes a good product, but I don't warm to their commercials. They sound like they have poor social skills or something...
That sounds so condescending and pretentious. Apple made the PC vs Mac commercials where apple did the exact same job of pointing out apple's supposed superiority at something. However, the way Justin Long spoke was natural and polite, as was the PC. Neither the Mac or Pc came a cross as snarky or snobbish.
Maybe it's because I have Apple bias but I often find Samsung's apple bashing adds off putting and created by people who aren't doing a good job of converting apple customers to their brand.
Samsung makes great hardware and I appreciate them like any company that makes a good product, but I don't warm to their commercials. They sound like they have poor social skills or something...
This is honestly the worst commercial I've ever seen. Who shares an iPad with their infant? Why doesn't he watch the sports on the TV or the baby watch the show on the TV? If you have two shows on one device not only is that going to kill the battery, one of them will have no sound. Stupidest commercial I have ever seen
Even better questions are
1. why is he watching the game instead of spending time with his child?
2. why is the child being subjected to video screens at such a young age (especially during feeding time)
3. based on the kitchen he has an apparently high end home--can't he afford two iPads?
This ad promotes bad parenting!!
I don't think split screen is a bad thing. I think the example given in the commercial is beyond idiotic (which is why it's hilarious that people are defending it). Why didn't the moron father just turn on the TV and let the kid watch his cartoons on the tablet or vice versa.
A good use case for split screen is writing an email and surfing the web maybe to look something up to put in the email or something.
Tragically not being able to let your kid watch cartoons while you watch Yahoo Gamechannel is beyond stupid. This commercial was almost as bad as the Galaxy Gear commercial with the creepy stalker guy:
Oh and don't even let me get started on the two guys sitting on a loveseat watching the same movie simultaneously on two tablets...
I can totally see it being a useful addition. But Samsung of course did it in probably the ugliest way possible that I would rather not have it at all than to look at that mess all the time. The experience should be an enjoyable one which Apple absolutely knows how to create so if they were to ever implement this sort of thing I would imagine it would be much better.
Even better questions are
1. why is he watching the game instead of spending time with his child?
2. why is the child being subjected to video screens at such a young age (especially during feeding time)
3. based on the kitchen he has an apparently high end home--can't he afford two iPads?
This ad promotes bad parenting!!
Lol, in addition to what you're saying it simply makes no sense, what person has an iPad and a nice home but not a TV to watch?
Just curious. When/if that happens what would be the point of having this thread bookmarked?
Every tech company that ever existed was great at coming up with ideas and new features. Few and far between ever implement them.
Great, google has google glass and self driving cars great. Where is the product I can buy and works easily? I'll give them praise when I see it for sale.
Apple for example, began the smartphone market with the iphone in 2007. This kick started the post pc era. Could the iphone do anything many companies had prototyped already? If bet not one feature in the first iphone was a totally original apple idea.
But....
It was imemented correctly and easily and nailed the smartphone concept. Remember the Nokia N95? That could do I belive everything the iphone could and was out ages before it.
My point it, coming up with ideas and features is important and it's excellent for general progress in everything.
But imementarion is what makes a product notable and worthwhile and truely "important" for consumers.
I disagree. What Apple does, unlike Samsung, is wait until something is actually useful and enhances the user's experience. Samsung just puts a whole bunch of rampant technology on their devices, where half of the features either don't work or are completely useless or hinders the devices battery life and is only semi-useful. For example, that feature on their smartphone where if you hold the device at an angle it will scroll up automatically and the eye sensor where if you look away it will turn off the screen or pause the video....these features do not enhance you experience they just waste battery life, it's actually much simpler and more practical to simply swipe your screen up to scroll up rather than tilt the phone at a certain angle and the feature not work half the time.
yet they fail miserably in sales compared to the single-tasker And supposedly not-so-great-resolution iPad ?
Software, eco system and store fronts is what Apple has going for it. That's the difference. Tablet and smartphone hardware, in my opinion, Samsung is equally in the mix.