If you had even bothered to research the thing you're bashing you'd know none of that is an issue with the Note. 1. It has a feature that plays a sound if you walk away with it without the stylus inserted. 2. It's just as useable as any other phone even without the stylus. Also, I personally never had a problem with the stylus scratching the screen.
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Samsung Bashes iPhone Screen Size and iPad Multitasking in Two New Anti-Apple Ads
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If you had even bothered to research the thing you're bashing you'd know none of that is an issue with the Note. 1. It has a feature that plays a sound if you walk away with it without the stylus inserted. 2. It's just as useable as any other phone even without the stylus. Also, I personally never had a problem with the stylus scratching the screen.
Seems to me these ads were created mostly for trolling and flame wars on the internet than for general consumers. Samsung knows that all the major tech sites would write about them as they'd drive page views.
What amazes is me is how much attention other companies give to a company they seem to think is so inferior. I mean how often does Coke mention Pepsi in their commercials? Or McDonalds mentioning Burger King? It's not like Samsung is some scrappy upstart that needs attention. Heck, last year they spent $14B on advertising. The last thing Samsung is lacking is attention. But for some reason they seem to want to give Apple more (free) attention. Odd.
What amazes is me is how much attention other companies give to a company they seem to think is so inferior. I mean how often does Coke mention Pepsi in their commercials? Or McDonalds mentioning Burger King? It's not like Samsung is some scrappy upstart that needs attention. Heck, last year they spent $14B on advertising. The last thing Samsung is lacking is attention. But for some reason they seem to want to give Apple more (free) attention. Odd.
Absolutely agreed. Anyone stating the lack of windowed multitasking on the iPad is absolutely unnecessary and the windowed / pane-based multitasking on both Samsung's devices and Windows RT / 8 devices is totally, absolutely useless should just be ignored.
Exactly. Wacom support is also sorely missing from iPads. All the capacitive pens suck and are incomparably worse than a true Wacom pen. Anyone stating the opposite doesn't have any clue about what a Wacom pen is and how it operates in practice.
How is that relevant to my question? Can you discern something being thinner than two pieces of paper? And if it's indistinguishable, and it's a selling point of the ad campaign, isn't it a bit pathetic? Is there one person that would buy it solely because it's 0.2 mm thinner than the Air? Especially if that extra thinness didn't buy you a lighter product?
That being said, I think the Tab Pro 10.1 looks like a fine tablet and look forward to getting my hands on one to demo. I just question Samsung's need to continually compare its products to Apple's. They should stop acting like little brother and let their products sell themselves. If they are indeed better, it will all get sorted out.
There are plenty of 3rd party keyboards to choose from. Even the stock Note 3 keyboard is very customizable. Google even released their stock keyboard to the play store. Android is the one platform that has many keyboard options.
The jailbreaking community made it into one
..But I do not see any reason why note 3 users should stay with the note 3 and not go in for a 12" tab pro..It just makes more sense give the price difference between the two..I wish my firm had given us the choice between the note 3 and the tab pro..I'd lapped the tab pro up in a minute, used it for netflix and used bluetooth to make calls when out of the country..Or it's just their opinion because it's not relevant to them.
That's one thing I hate about all these back and forth arguments, it's all so very personal. It's like people completely insistent that small phones are the best vs people who are completely insistent that bigger is better, etc.
It's why I hate it when people ask me what smartphone they should buy - it's become a very personal, very intimate decision and that's why so many of these back and forths are pure garbage, tbh. What works for you will not work for me, and what works for me will not work for Joe Schmoe.
That's why competition and variety is great.
I'm an Apple person to the core (no pun intended) but if I was a complete newbie to computers and the like, knowing nothing at all, looking at the second ad, I'd buy the Samsung. The script and the voiceover was the first Samsung ad I've seen that is actually well made.
Therefore while these ads will sway people to buy Samsung, that is the whole point of advertising. But knowing Apple as I do it's their OS and quality and design that is infectious and in the long term they will always be in front of the game.
Therefore while these ads will sway people to buy Samsung, that is the whole point of advertising. But knowing Apple as I do it's their OS and quality and design that is infectious and in the long term they will always be in front of the game.
"What we said at the very beginning was, if you need a stylus you've already failed.."
Steve Jobs at D8 - 2010
Nuff said!
Steve Jobs at D8 - 2010
Nuff said!
Multitaksing on any tablet,if t has the capabilities, is a bi**h.
Now, here are the specs the late 2011 macbook air 13 inch:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP683
I have this model and let me tell you that navigating through Nike.com's sight is a nightmare. So just imagine trying to do 'REAL" MT on a tablet.
Samsung is desperate and boring.
I have the 1st gen iPad mini and it blows anything I have seen from competitors away.
Now, here are the specs the late 2011 macbook air 13 inch:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP683
I have this model and let me tell you that navigating through Nike.com's sight is a nightmare. So just imagine trying to do 'REAL" MT on a tablet.
Samsung is desperate and boring.
I have the 1st gen iPad mini and it blows anything I have seen from competitors away.
hey buddy, apple doesn't force you to sign your life away when you buy an iPhone. I was only commenting on you remark about it not being big enough in todays market versus the before. Your argument makes a lot of sense and it would make a lot of sense that Apple sells even more phones if they released a cheaper plastic phone but the results didn't follow through. Even Tim Cook came out and said they underestimated the demand for the 5S thinking people would opt for the cheaper 5C.
The HTC TyTN II, as did all phones of that age (2007) except for the iPhone, had a resistive screen. It's just incomparable to a Wacom-based pen. The latter is much-much better than a resistive touchscreen used with a pen. Also, Samsung's (or, for that matter, Microsoft's) Wacom-friendly tablets also have a capacitive touchscreen, allowing for seamless touch operations: the best of both worlds, as opposed to an outdated and neither pen- nor touch-optimized resistive touchscreen of the HTC TyTN II.
You haven't ever handled multipane-enabled Windows RT / 8 / Pro or Samsung tablet, I take it. Otehrwise, you wouldn't write such nonsense.
FYI: on Windows RT / 8, it takes only some very simple gestures to display two apps next to each one. No need to size them with a pen or anything. Everything can be done with simple and quick gestures.
This is what is sorely missing from iOS.
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Lolz... tell this to the Wacom folks
You'll be simply laughed at. Imagine having to draw a hi-res drawing with touch - and compare how easy it is to do the same with a Wacom pen.You obviously don't have a clue.
And it is equally funny seeing so many posts from people that resort to name calling those that have criticized the ad or the Samsung products in the ad. You'd think someone was insulting their mother or family.
See what I did there.
Apple actually crams those individual pixels in to a smaller form factor while preventing color bleeding using a resin coating on the transistor layer.
Samsung's display just throws in double the green pixels. So on any color that doesn't use green you lose any of the benefits, as well has get a non accurate representation of just about all images.
I have an iphone5s but recently got a Nexus4 for a project at work. I personally don't like the way the larger phone fits in my hands and I have fairly large hands.
Also, the larger screen doesn't make text easier to read; it's still a small device compared to a tablet or laptop.
I've been messing with Android and I like the ability to pin a contact to the home screen...that's about all that I've found useful so far.
Overall the ios experience is much more polished and the size if the phone is fine.
Also, the larger screen doesn't make text easier to read; it's still a small device compared to a tablet or laptop.
I've been messing with Android and I like the ability to pin a contact to the home screen...that's about all that I've found useful so far.
Overall the ios experience is much more polished and the size if the phone is fine.
If Apple suddenly ceased to exist, Samsung wouldn't have a clue how to operate. I mean, who could they copy and be obsessed with then?!
You haven't ever handled multipane-enabled Windows RT / 8 / Pro or Samsung tablet, I take it. Otehrwise, you wouldn't write such nonsense.
FYI: on Windows RT / 8, it takes only some very simple gestures to display two apps next to each one. No need to size them with a pen or anything. Everything can be done with simple and quick gestures.
This is what is sorely missing from iOS.
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Lolz... tell this to the Wacom folks
You obviously don't have a clue.
Why are you comparing smartphones and tablets to Wacoms? Obviously not the same thing.
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