My 55" 1080p HDTV only allows me to watch one show at a time, so please explain to me why I need my 9" iPad to play 2 shows concurrently?
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Uh, I have ZERO desire to run two apps at the same time via split screen. What is the practical use?
I see two ads touting tablets running a cumbersome OS with a vulnerable and fragmented ecosystem.
I see two ads touting tablets running a cumbersome OS with a vulnerable and fragmented ecosystem.
Because you're watching the World Cup on your 9" iPad instead of your TV and your 2 year old wants to watch his cartoons. Why else??
Very similar response to a local plumbing company who use a chimpanzee in their ads on TV, saying, "You wouldn't trust your plumbing to a monkey, would you?" That's so close to calling all other plumbers / plumbing companies monkeys.
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There's plenty of practical use. Watching the world cup is not one of them...unless you're the moron father in the ad of course.
These ads would not want me to buy a Samsung Tablet even if i didn't have an iPad already. These ads are horrible, they should learn something from Apple.
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How could they when there's people who defend this crap for no reason other than it's Samsung?
The ad doesn't show to videos playing side by side. The father is interacting with the app he is using, looks like some game.
And to the people commenting on the other ad showing two people watching the same movie on two tablets, it isn't suppose to be a realistic use case. It is meant to compare the tablet screens. How else would you show one screen is better than the other if not having them show the same pictures on both and in the same room?
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Do as many ads as you want. I will never purchase a Samsung branded product for the rest of my life.
Do as many ads as you want. I will never purchase a Samsung branded product for the rest of my life.
I just bought the new galaxy s tab and I cant tell you how many compliments I get for the screen quality.
I could care less about samsung vs apple but we all know damn well samsung makes by far the best displays out there.
Just do a search of all the people complain the mac books didn't get a samsung screen vs an lg.
The screens in the new Samsung tablets are by far the best displays ever made period.
Go to your local best buy and play one of the hd movies that comes on the tablet and see for yourself. It also plays the movies full screen with no black bars!
I could care less about samsung vs apple but we all know damn well samsung makes by far the best displays out there.
Just do a search of all the people complain the mac books didn't get a samsung screen vs an lg.
The screens in the new Samsung tablets are by far the best displays ever made period.
Go to your local best buy and play one of the hd movies that comes on the tablet and see for yourself. It also plays the movies full screen with no black bars!
Cause Mac VS PC commercial worked so well for apple!
In case you didn't notice, the Mac vs PC ads weren't blatantly bashing another product and they had humor. That's why nearly everyone loved them.
The Samsung ads are, well, blatantly bashing the top selling tablet (iPad) and don't have humor.
There is saying, if you build it they will come. But that saying wasn't about the fans, it was about the players. You are correct Apple is like Microsoft of the early 2000, with a quality developer program, great developer tools, and a solid coherent eco-system. Google on the other hand is freaking mess. They are 3 years behind on Java support on their platform. You have to hack the whole development environment if you want closures. Their IDE is constantly in progress (this is what you get when you let the "community" support your tools). Their recent move to gradle for build is joke at best.
Fools will jump for the flash and bang, which is all the Androids have, because there is little substance. Everyone ends up disappointed in the end when their device is obsolete in 3 months. There was recently a story that said Samsungs profits are shrinking rapidly because they are throwing money at the wrong things, but they don't have a choice, they don't own the platform.
Seriously? What advertising class did you take? LOL
Those are terrible ads, boring description of potentially real useful technical advantages. If that ad were broadcast on TV I'd think I flipped to the community college TV station by accident for a votech class! LMAO
Apple points out differences and features in a warm light hearted entertaining way in almost all of its ads. Those ads look like they were written for a high school project! And the announcer sounds like he fell out of the movie I, Robot.
However, they do show to geeks like me that Apple has some serious catching up to do. Multi-tasking and high contrast, particularly if for instance you're at the beach or in the sun are extremely important features. Apple can tout "Retina" all they want, but a picture tells a story, especially one you can see better. Samsung makes some of the finest displays all by themselves in house, an advantage Apple doesn't have and it shows.
These are 2 features iPad users would love to have, but I'm sure Samsung will find some way to clunky up how to use them in the end. But I like competition. The ball is in your court Apple. Competition is good.
I'm smiling too.
The controls will disappear and the frame can be made translucent also. Requires jailbreak + videopane from Ryan Petrich.
The controls will disappear and the frame can be made translucent also. Requires jailbreak + videopane from Ryan Petrich.
Exactly, the ads themselves are terrible. The tech advances are nice but at least Apple got funny likable people to do theirs. Not to mention the key parts are a horror movie & a baby as if that's what you normally need those features for in a tablet! LOL
If I were Samsung, I'd fire their ad agency!
Not sure how anyone could defend Apple here. The omission of multi-tasking in the same screen on the iPad is sheer stupidity. I jail broke my first ipad a couple of years ago and there was a great multi-tasking program on Cydia, but its not the same as native programming. And that's just the software....
I had a go with the new Surface 3 last weekend at Best Buy. Aside from Windows, which I hate but could get used to again, the hardware is good to go with a full Intel i3 processor, 256GB SSD, MicroSD slot and soon to arrive docking station with USB ports.
There is no reason why Apple couldn't implement any of these, but has refused to add any kind of external storage options that might hinder the sale of their flagship models.
The current version of iOS has seemed kind of buggy to me lately as well. My screen orientation refuses to flip when its supposed to, and my browser crashes on a regular basis. I could go on about the iPhone as well, but why bother.
Apple needs to start tightening things up with both OS's and the hardware that its designing, or I may start to look elsewhere for my future needs. The tragedy is that I've been a die hard Apple fan since 2004, and have made a ton of dough off of their stock within the past 5 years....what a shame.
I had a go with the new Surface 3 last weekend at Best Buy. Aside from Windows, which I hate but could get used to again, the hardware is good to go with a full Intel i3 processor, 256GB SSD, MicroSD slot and soon to arrive docking station with USB ports.
There is no reason why Apple couldn't implement any of these, but has refused to add any kind of external storage options that might hinder the sale of their flagship models.
The current version of iOS has seemed kind of buggy to me lately as well. My screen orientation refuses to flip when its supposed to, and my browser crashes on a regular basis. I could go on about the iPhone as well, but why bother.
Apple needs to start tightening things up with both OS's and the hardware that its designing, or I may start to look elsewhere for my future needs. The tragedy is that I've been a die hard Apple fan since 2004, and have made a ton of dough off of their stock within the past 5 years....what a shame.
That last comment is nonsensical. Aspect ratio on movies varies. There is no such thing as a TV or tablet or computer or phone that can display every single movie without "black bars" without stretching the image thus distorting its picture quality. So just seeing demo that shows no black bars has nothing to do with the quality of its picture. I'm sure they picked a movie with the perfect aspect ratio for the tablet or they just cropped it which I much less like, but maybe I'm a perfectionist.
The target market is... (drumroll)
At least we know Samsung's target audience... douchebag fathers.
At least we know Samsung's target audience... douchebag fathers.
I should of explained it better
They have special hd videos recorded at the screens resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio to blow your mind on how amazing these new screens are.
Pure perfection!
This screen I'm typing on now blows the doors off anything apple has ever sold.
Troll, troll, troll, troll...
1) Don't jailbreak your device. Maybe it won't crash. Huh. iOS has been rock solid for me except on initial releases.
2) Most people I know enjoy the idea of having one app as your focus. It's a productivity aide. Sure it's not for everyone, but it does make the iPad usable from a focus standpoint.
3) Look elsewhere then. Plenty of other people disagree with you and will happily buy what you don't.
1) Don't jailbreak your device. Maybe it won't crash. Huh. iOS has been rock solid for me except on initial releases.
2) Most people I know enjoy the idea of having one app as your focus. It's a productivity aide. Sure it's not for everyone, but it does make the iPad usable from a focus standpoint.
3) Look elsewhere then. Plenty of other people disagree with you and will happily buy what you don't.