Which air or the mini retina? they aren't the same and even when comparing an iPad Air to an iPad Air, they are not all the same, you have to deal with Apple's display panel lottery (blueish whites, yellow tint, book spine shadows, blue halos, etc). Apple uses more than one source for parts/displays.
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Which air or the mini retina? they aren't the same and even when comparing an iPad Air to an iPad Air, they are not all the same, you have to deal with Apple's display panel lottery (blueish whites, yellow tint, book spine shadows, blue halos, etc). Apple uses more than one source for parts/displays.
It is a good idea, but its not a world beating function. If Samsung was confident in its products and future, they would advertise their new product, but they don't, they try to deflate others so as to uplift their own product. Lack of confidence, and a belief that its new product cannot stand on its own two feet.
Yes, not like making an advertise about a woman with a physical handicap traveling alone worldwide, visiting a tremendously poor city while showing off her ipad, which is like traveling to Sudan wearing a suit made of steaks.
I would say most of you are not very impartial...If posters here then decried one company as it doesn't have the feature in a childish manner, then yes you would be correct.
As far as split screen is concerned, there will be those that will love it, and those that don't have a use for it, so these get stated. Yes, you will always get the defenders who wish to defend, that happens on any platform, so its not relevant
No where in the ad did it say Apple or iPad. And no where did it hint at users of other tablets being stupid. How does saying other tablets have poor colour or contrast or poor battery life equate to Samsung calling the users dumb?
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.
It sounds like Samsung is only interested in increasing the number of checkbox features... but they don't care if the features are useful or if they even work as advertised.
I know lots of people who own flagship Galaxy S phones. But none of them have ever talked about the eye scroll thing or the video pause thing.
I guess people have a low standard on what to expect from Samsung. Go figure. Or not.
Wow... only thing that made me switch to mac was the release of windows Vista and me being able to test it out on a hackintosh for a few years.
Eye scroll and video pause are stupid. As all hell. But samsung does have some good features. Just like Apple.
The problem is when people blindly defend either. Like the people defending these beyond moronic commercials from Samsung.
Probably the same reason this Apple forum gets so many Samsung and/or Android posters at times.
Apple gets their displays from more than one supplier. If you go in the Macrumors forums for the ipad and macbookpros, you see many people prefer the samsung displays. Apple display panel lottery is a real thing.
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.
I thought that Air feature was a very very good, and innovative feature. It was the time when Samsungs ads compared feature numbers.
BUT as you stated above "and the feature not work half the time." Thats the problem, implementation. I also feel Apple is slow taking on new features, but I see that increasing, IMHO its due to enough time since new management, now its kicking ahead. Thats a marketing push that will reduce the competitors rants, maybe this is why the bashing campaign is in use?
I love how that Samsung ad basically misinforms the public in believing that AMOLED is clearly superior to LCD IPS. Both have tradeoffs.
AMOLED has better blacks, as demonstrated in the Samsung ad. LCD IPS has better color reproduction and whites.
AMOLED has better blacks, as demonstrated in the Samsung ad. LCD IPS has better color reproduction and whites.
A typical iPad Dad would give his kid his old iPad. Problem solved
Had to chuckle at this one. That's exactly where my ipad went, found iOS was better suited to my 2 year old.
Had to chuckle at this one. That's exactly where my ipad went, found iOS was better suited to my 2 year old.
Your 2 year old would be pissed if he pressed a button on an android tablet and it took 8 seconds to react lol
The ad shows people having to recharge their phones when they are outside their homes/work because of a phone with poor battery life. The ad does not show iPhone users with dirty clothes that don't shower, it doesn't show iphone users picking their nose. So those people picked a phone with supposedly poor battery life and Samsung is highlighting this fact.
IMO, I think a lot of posters in this thread are so mad because they spent so much money on Apple products and don't want to be seen as being tricked by Apple. No one wants to be told they made a bad choice.
Samsung's strategy seems more focused on maintaining their perception as the alternative to Apple or the "anti-Apple" rather than specifically showcasing their products. I shouldn't be surprised, that's how they got big in the market in the first place.
Imo that's why it's a poor advertising strategy. People say the same thing about the 'I'm a PC' commercials and that's probably why Apple has moved away from those. While it probably appealed to a large segment of the population who hated Windows, it also probably alienated some PC users. I see a lot of value in Android products but stuff like that commercial just irritates me and you don't want the person you're trying to appeal to, to just be irritated.
This commercial is a lot better, at least the first one is - I haven't watched the second one.