It has a number of compromises like inferior heat dissipation and a downgrade on user serviceability. It's thinner for the sake of being thinner.
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Samsung Bashes iPhone Screen Size and iPad Multitasking in Two New Anti-Apple Ads
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It has a number of compromises like inferior heat dissipation and a downgrade on user serviceability. It's thinner for the sake of being thinner.
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Why do these adverts look like , "hey mine is bigger than yours".. but they were misleading people, samsung was talking about HD content which is 1080p , well iphones resolution is way above HD. These adverts are comparing the devices on wrong basis. None of the samsung phones have retina display, they just have bigger size. Samsung wil be getting a 2K display next week with galaxy S5.
Why do these adverts look like , "hey mine is bigger than yours".. but they were misleading people, samsung was talking about HD content which is 1080p , well iphones resolution is way above HD. These adverts are comparing the devices on wrong basis. None of the samsung phones have retina display, they just have bigger size. Samsung wil be getting a 2K display next week with galaxy S5.
Really Samsung... you can lasso out images to the level of Photoshop with that dingus of a stylus???
Regarding OS. It may be hard to believe but Android does not equal Samsung. So that's irrelevant. In the premium phone market, the iPhone is the undisputed king, no matter what the aggregated market stats tell you. Same goes for tablets. Apple is the king of the mountain in perception, and profit. If I am competing with them who else would I go after? Blackberry? HTC? LG? Nokia? Money wasted.
Just another thing to worry about getting lost. My kids DSi stylus often get lost in the car or in the couch.
Must have hired MS's ad & PR agencies. Note to Samsung - they didn't have much success going down those rat holes.
It's funny that Samsung would bash the iPhone for not having a stylus, when the Tab Pro 10.1 also lacks a stylus.
This is what is called desperation ad. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. It's obvious Samsung is scared.
I doubt they are scared. They sell a crap ton of everything. I do think that they are fresh out of good ideas though.
Apple should do this already. Come on
Then again you can't get more than 10 apps truly optimized for an android tablet let alone apps for a very high resolution screen.
The fact is I don't see Apple changing resolution avery year mostly because they try to think of the devs and the work it would require, all that for a meager user return (what is the max useful resolution for a tablet? look for a coupe of scientific articles treating the subject)
No, I said that using video as an example of multitasking is a bad idea. And considering the number of OS X programs that support full-screen mode now, it's actually quite nice. Aperture X and Logic X, in my opinion, are much better in full-screen mode than in windowed mode. I don't know any reason I'd want to be editing photos or recording music while watching Netflix in a window.
It's easy to swipe side to side to get to the next program or desktop. Pretty much the same gesture on the iPad as on the multi-touch trackpad in fact.
iOS supports multitasking. What iOS doesn't support is arbitrary resizing of program windows on the tablet screen, which would require developers to avoid making an optimized tablet experience for their software. That's why multi-windowing works so well on Android, because the software isn't tablet-optimized to begin with.
And yet Samsung can't figure out how to get rid of that fugly camera bump on the back of their phones and phablets.
Just like when Jobs had to bring in other vendors to take the heat off the iPhone 4 dodgy antenna design...equally sad.
Calling each other out is just bad!!!
In my opinion... advertisements SHOULD NOT involve trash talking your competitors, period.
Even in the case Samsung points out a legitimate shortcoming on Apple product, that's still not right... it's a matter of professionalism.
If you are good, you innovated cool features; show it off! It will be bought.
If your product are made of superior material, tell us that and we will buy.
Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, etc... everybody did this and I just don't think it's professional.
The one that puzzles me most is Apple. They innovated the coolest things in the World.... and they go and talk shieat about their competitors... If I was them, I would just show off my cool stuffs and that's enough said! There's no need to claim Samsung is short-coming because smart consumers already know who's better.
In my opinion... advertisements SHOULD NOT involve trash talking your competitors, period.
Even in the case Samsung points out a legitimate shortcoming on Apple product, that's still not right... it's a matter of professionalism.
If you are good, you innovated cool features; show it off! It will be bought.
If your product are made of superior material, tell us that and we will buy.
Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, etc... everybody did this and I just don't think it's professional.
The one that puzzles me most is Apple. They innovated the coolest things in the World.... and they go and talk shieat about their competitors... If I was them, I would just show off my cool stuffs and that's enough said! There's no need to claim Samsung is short-coming because smart consumers already know who's better.
The Note 3 ad wasn't good but the Tab one was okay - it at least had a point (pun intended).
You mean the same way Apple used to launch commercials mocking PC's -- even though we know it was really Microsoft they were targetting -- (I'm a Mac / I'm a PC)?? It's always easier to play victim right? lol.
Ahhh..... therein lies the rub, doesn't it?? The implementation.
Samsung's tablets don't have horrible, not real multitasking at all, "choose from a VERY limited choice of apps to *ahem* multitask *ahem*" because their software engineers can't code.... quite to the contrary- their workforce is probably 80-90% as talented as Apple's! They are employing top-notch minds. The reason why their "multitasking" (sorry, I simply cannot use that term without quotes & keep a straight face, as what Samsung offers is clearly NOT true multitasking) is so incredibly shoddy is because true multitasking on a mobile OS is currently IMPOSSIBLE. I believe that what Samsung has done (& make no mistake... it sucks) is currently the absolute BEST that can be done. And THAT, in a nutshell friends, is why Apple is waiting.
Let's parse this out a moment & think about it. Many, many, many apps rely on the use of the gyroscope & accelerometer to respond to tilting the screen, shaking the device, etc as input, correct? So.. logic tells up that right off the bat, precisely ZERO of these apps can work well in a true multitasking environment. What are the chances that you'd want the same reaction in the two different apps at the exact same time? Ok... what about games? You KNOW that somebody would immediately want to Skype while playing the latest iteration of Infinity Blade or the like. So, obviously, to keep that from being a lagtastic horrible experience, any app that uses a high amount of resources would have to be nixed. Basically, any implementation that I can currently envision includes HUGE trade-offs. I think all they could do is a minimally handy implementation like Samsung's where you can only choose super lightweight apps like calendar, mail, YouTube, or web browser to sit side by side. Even that has HUGE caveats. For example, people claiming that they copied Samsung (which is indeed what it would be doing, were they to adopt this approach), also.. The control piece.. for how much Apple gets a bad rap for "controlling" the user experience & Android gets praised for the opposite.. it's odd that nobody finds Samsung's forcing of you to use their crappy tiny selection of pre-selected apps for "multitasking" draconian. I, for one, would NOT like to see this on iOS. What if Safari was one of the apps & I wanted to use Chrome? What if stock calculator was the only choice & I wanted to use HandyCalc? I, simply put, could not... I would be (like a Samsung Galaxy Tab owner) forced into dismally small selection of apps for my "multitask" experience. Sounds miserable. I seriously cannot fathom who is pushing for this.
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Samsung should focus less on stylus and more on style. It is quite a common Korean thing (if that isn't racist)... Make it a bit bigger / smaller / faster / cheaper / whatever, but it always lacks a certain je ne sais quoi. People who appreciate a bit of design / beauty / panache / pedigree are always going to look elsewhere.
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