Samsung Bashes iPhone Screen Size and iPad Multitasking in Two New Anti-Apple Ads

[milo]

For the most part their points are valid, the resolution is higher, the screen is bigger. The stylus thing seems stupid to me, I don't want one.

And the multitasking is awful in iOS, I wish it was more like how it works in Android. On my android phone when I switch apps it always seems to pick up where I left off, but on my iPad many times when I switch apps it's like rebooting the app, it forgets what I had and I have to find whatever was loaded before. Some of that may be poor implementation of multitasking, some may also be not having as much ram as the device needs. I know you're never supposed to have to quit apps in iOS but I constantly have things like web pages reloading...as soon as I quit unused apps that improves.

Overall I like Apple's ads better. But they do need to keep improving their devices, if they are going to promote themselves as the premium product and demand premium pricing, they actually need to ship something that's as good or better than the competition.

 

[Born Again]

It's just getting funny now. Size isn't everything samsung.

Girls would say differently lol

 

[SteveJobs2.0]

Guys with a tiny pen have a tiny peen!

 

[henryhbk]

Why multitasking

So on my laptop "true" preemptive multitasking at all times is important. I am often doing a build in the background, while running FCPX or office or adobe creative suite, etc, plus running apache httpd and tomcat. And I expect it all to run flawlessly. I understand that while doing all of that I had better be plugged in or expect very short battery life.

On my iPad battery life is king. I don't transcode video while browsing the web on my iPad. I do expect my email and notifications to happen while I am working (and they do) but I will take 13 hours of hard-core battery life any day over some rare occasion when having 2 "windows" up at once would help. Someone mentioned "I want to watch videos while my email empties out." Seriously? My email empty-trash takes like 3 seconds, how short a video do you watch (oh, and email will perform tasks in the background preemptively)?

I have never felt that the iPad was 0.2mm too thick (and they had to be very careful with camera angles to show that since that's a couple of sheets of paper thick)

 

[Prof.]

Well those weren't annoying at all!

 

[jc1350]

haha i actually like these commercials, since they're telling the truth. I mean come on, its 2014 and on ipad you still cant have 2 apps on one screen at the same time.

I got a Dell Venue 8 Pro from my employer. Being full Windows, it does multitasking. I found out by accident and I liked it (I still think of it as a tablet as opposed to a really really small laptop). I clicked a link in Skype and it opened IE in a side-by-side window with Skype. I could interact with both apps without iOS style app switching and to go full screen with one, just swipe the undesired app off the side of the screen.

Sharing something through email is the same - opens the message window side-by-side with whatever app was open, send the message, go back to the other app being full screen.

That is one feature I'd like iOS to gain - at least for the ipad. Side-by-side on the phone would be a poor experience.

 

[HangmanSwingset]

Hey man, qasar hasn't been around since iOS 5!

There is VideoPane. I got it for the Super Bowl, but haven't used it much other than screencapping Livestreams and tweeting the image. Though my photo stream usually picks it up so I can just do that with my phone.

 

[nzalog]

Well that does it guys, the s-pen and the snarky attitude of the narrator got me. I'm gonna sell all my apple stuff for a decent percentage of what I bought it for. Then buy some samsung stuff that will be almost worthless 5 months later. I can't wait to send people pictures of Lebron.

 

[mattbaar26]

I've got to say, I just went from an iPhone 5 to a note 3 and the difference is tremendous. I absolutely love the note!

 

[ka-spot]

haha.. the ads are nice thumbs up!

..but thats all you can offer

 

[CausticPuppy]

Typically if you have an iPad you have an iPhone. If you absolutely HAVE to do something else while watching a movie use that.

Or, you know... Watch movies on a TV screen and put the damn tablet and phone down and enjoy he film.

It was a horrible example of multitasking to begin with. You can only physically look at one thing at a time, so you're not going to be watching a movie while writing an email. Even on laptop or desktop this is true-- you might have netflix running up in a little window, but if you're writing an email, you're not paying attention to what's in the window. Plus you're compromising your email experience, the more room you give to your video, the less room you have for email. On an Android tablet that might be OK, because all the apps are made for tiny screens anyway, just scaled up for a big tablet. It would be different on iOS where the apps are optimized for the full display.

A better example might be streaming Spotify in the background while you're working on a document or email... which, hey, the iPad can do!

 

[Antares]

I would make fun of Samsung’s overly large size…

 

[Thares]

Well. I'd love my iPad Air to have the multitasking feature. -.-

 

[MisakixMikasa]

lolSamsung. Focus on making something people actually WANT before you go and bash other products.

How are all those celebrity endorsements that you paid for working out?



What company was Apple targeting with the Mac vs. PC ads? Last I checked, there was no company called "personal computer".

Does Samsung actually mentioned Apple in the ad? No. It just happen that Apple is only the iPad maker. When Apple attacking Windows for something, aren't they directly targeting Microsoft and bunch of PC makers?

This is essentially same thing. I do not see any difference between how Apple did before and now,

By the way, Apple specifically mentioned Nexus 7 on their iPad mini first generation keynote.

 

[M5RahuL]

I've got to say, I just went from an iPhone 5 to a note 3 and the difference is tremendous. I absolutely love the note!

I agree! What keeps bringing me back to the iPhone is iTunes Radio, believe it or not lol !

The N3 is just... mobile sex!

Also, love the iPhoto Shared Album feature...but there are alternatives to that on Android.

Either way, I just keep both [ 5S and N3 ] and switch as desired...

 

[PicnicTutorials]

lol good apple deserves it's lashing.

 

[Velli]

Actually, those were pretty funny ads. At least what Samsung is saying in the ads is true: The iPhone screen is too small by today's standards (or at least there should be a choice of larger iPhones!),

People keep saying that, but who defined that standard? I'd say that the most popular phone in the world is the standard, and by that measure the other phones are too big by today's standard.

And seriously, we are supposed to be envious over the effing stylus??!? The whole point of iOS is not having a stylus. I had a stylus on my HTC whateveritwas that I had before buying an iPhone, and I do *NOT* want it back.

 

[iSteve-O]

"LeBron is literally running away from this phone" lol

Both ads make a good point though, watching HD videos in 16:9 aspect ratio is much better than iOS devices' 4:3.

 

[nzalog]

I've got to say, I just went from an iPhone 5 to a note 3 and the difference is tremendous. I absolutely love the note!

Everyone likes different things, my gf wanted to try an S3. After using it for a year she ended up ending her contract early just so she could get back to an iPhone.

I'd never want anything as 'open' as an android device on something so personal as a phone. I also would never buy a samsung product just on principle. There are plenty of better android devices to pick from than samsung junk. People actually root their phones just to get samsung's ****** skin off of it.

 

[gatearray]

I was wondering if anyone thought the same thing. If either of these commercials comes on when I'm watching TV, I'm immediately flipping the channel.

Bravo, Samsung.

Agreed on all counts!

And the music they use... These same mopey classical strings were used in the first ads that criticized iPhones and iPhone users. It has a smarmy kind of tone about it, with the violin trying to "raise an eyebrow" or roll it's eyes at the end. This music was well chosen and appropriate for the "negative" subject matter of those particular spots.

Flash forward to their follow-up ads, where they focused on extolling positive aspects of the Galaxy S3 that aid the user in relatable situations, such as falling asleep while holding your baby, etc. They used the exact same music for these and their newest commercials which is a bad idea because now I'm conditioned to smirk and roll my eyes every time I hear it, oops.

 

[512ke]

Putting Lebron in the sky? What the heck?

Does any phone user wanna do that?

OMG I have to buy the new Sammy phone so I can cut out pictures of my favorite NBA star and put him in DIFFERENT backgrounds!

I mean maybe if you're a 16 year old girl and it's Justin Bieber you're putting in the sky, MAYBE.

But photo editing Lebron? What adult dude is gonna do that?

If my buddy sends me a pic he photo edited of Lebron putting him into the clouds? I'd be like, seriously, find a hobby. I'm worried about you.

"But it's lebron! And I cut him out of one image and I put him into another one!"

Um, okay....

I also don't get why they referenced the pencil ad at all.

Only the Samsung execs even recall that Apple had a pencil in their iPad ad.

It's an obscure reference to something the average tablet user is not going to remember.

Finally, WHY does the voiceover dude want to take the pencil? Is his Galaxy tab not enough? He needs a pencil?

A way better ending would have been:

"Um, you can keep the pencil. I'll take the tab."

otherwise it's like a car commercial where they guy keeps the bicycle at the end.

 

[Michael CM1]

Just like a bunch of TV-making fools to claim that 350 ppi isn't "high definition." I always look at my iPhone screen and am just so disappointed in the quality because I can see individual pixels if I jam it into my retina.

 

[MisakixMikasa]

Apple ran the Mac vs PC ads because the PC was the clear market leader and Apple needed to persuade you to buy its product over the market leader. Apple is in the reverse position with its mobile devices so it is the competition which must persuade you to not buy Apple.

Apple is just in reverse position now. The Mac vs PC thing is when Apple is nor in the market leader. Microsoft did not do anything back then. You never seen any PC vs Mac thing by Microsoft back then.

How Samsung is in this position. Apple is persuade you not buy Microsoft's Windows and Samsung is persuade you not buy Apple's iPad. Same thing, but different companies involved.

 

[LastLine]

Funny how apple doesnt need to compare itself to samsung and does very well.

To be fair any company making their advertising based on slagging off a competitor is pathetic anyway.

 

[itsOver9000]

Buy a second (or third, or fourth, ...) iPad if you want multitasking that bad and have a different app open on each one. lol! Surely that's what Apple would want us to do.