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Samsung Bashes the iPad, Microsoft Surface and Kindle in New Ad

john123 said:
The only difference is that you don't like what these are saying. They're both entertaining.
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The quality of the product has nothing to do with the content of the commercial. There isn't even an attempt at light humor, there is only snarky rude BS. Night and day difference.


unplugme71 said:
Agreed. And the Mac guy was never rude about it.


Personally the only Samsung products I buy are TV's, monitors, SSD's, washer, dryer, dishwasher, and fridge. Everything else is crap.
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Exactly. They make great TV panels, I have one myself (crappy software UI though) and I turned my MBP into a fusion drive using one of their 250GB SSD's, but their phone/tablet/laptop products are obvious examples of hardware plagiarism, and their ads are rude and boring.
 
All the examples they used for multi-tasking don't need them to have both at once. The video (audio still works) can be cut off for 2 seconds to send the file, and you don't need to have the book open to watch a youtube video on half your screen.
 
Dr McKay said:
The only people I knew who liked the PC guy, were Mac Users. I suspect it was more out of feeling sorry for him.

Most people who used Windows that I knew found the Mac vs PC ads to be insulting and arrogant. They tried to portray PC users as middle-aged bumbling nerds with glasses while Mac Users were the cool kids etc. There's a reason they dressed Mac and PC how they did.
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You are taking these ads much too serious.

And these two actors didn't represent a PC user and a Mac user. They represented a PC and a Mac. By the way, the PC guy (John Hodgman) is a successful writer and actor, so there is no need at all to feel sorry for him.
 
samcraig said:
Funny is subjective

You don't see anyone getting defensive? Ok - subjective again. I see a LOT of people getting defensive lol. As if they owned Apple.

People see what they want to see (again).
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Well, you sure do. Of course, If I said "this Samsung advert is ****", you would take that as defensive. I'd say it's the opposite, plus a bit feeling sorry for owners of Samsung products who must be cringing seeing that kind of advert.

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samcraig said:
I could say the same about many posters here in regards to this ad.
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You are talking about ads that are many years old. We are talking about ads that are just released. If you haven't got over it after all those years, you are taking it too serious.
 
Yawn. I love seeing Apple's competitors resort to the same exact child in the schoolyard strategy of "I can do this better!". It REEKS of failure and an overall sense of instability. These do nothing for me but make me laugh at their sad attempt for relevancy.
 
The problem with advertising:
- Bad ads for bad products are annoying
- Bad ads for good products are let downs
- Good ads for bad products are deceptive
- Good ads for good products are rare

Too bad this fits in the first category.
 
gnasher729 said:
Well, you sure do. Of course, If I said "this Samsung advert is ****", you would take that as defensive. I'd say it's the opposite, plus a bit feeling sorry for owners of Samsung products who must be cringing seeing that kind of advert.

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You are talking about ads that are many years old. We are talking about ads that are just released. If you haven't got over it after all those years, you are taking it too serious.
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People can think the ad is crap. I have no problem with it. It's the perceived "offense" that I think is silly. The "hate" is amusing in a sad way.

I use the device I like. I don't care about ads or other people's opinions on it. They aren't walking in my shoes. That pretty much sums it up.
 
When will Samsung learn? The best way of having people talking and buying your device is making a good device, as simple as that. If you trash other products to make your own seem better, it actually shows how low class your brand is.
 
john123 said:
Uh, Apple bashed PCs for years with its Justin Long commercials.

My oh my, how quickly the fan boys forget...
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PC isn't a "brand". Its an open windows based platform. Apple differentiated itself on an platform or ecosystem basis with that campaign. Samsung has targeted specific brands, and in the process insulted the intelligence of potential customers. Not smart.

Samsung PR must be a nightmare. smh
 
Adding more pixels above retina resolution wont make the image better because you cant see the pixels... but it will slow down performance, heat the battery and generate more heat...
 
admob71 said:
Wow, hate?... Can you answer what they have personally done to you.... Killed a pet?.. stolen your. Bike?.. copying.. which everyone does seriously isn't a reason to generate hate....
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Your premise that consist on "what have they done personally to you" being the only valid excuse to hate someone is pretty interesting.

Are you implying you can only hate(or love) someone who had an direct interaction with your life? This seems kinda silly to me on multiple levels.
 
Samsung (who said last year they would be cutting back on advertising) seems to be going all-out trying to capture mind share and market share before they loose all their advantages. It's not just Apple they seems to be scared of.

I think Samsung got popular because they we're good at bringing our different screen sizes quickly and backed it by aggressive marketing…. take away the screen advantage and you just have another "Android" phone competing for sales.
 
Apple should do a TV commercial.

Copy verbatim Samsung's commercial with one little twist.

When commercial ends have video still rolling showing the prop manager collect the Samsung stuff and returning to the actors their personal property consisting of iPhones and iPads and iPad Mini's and wishing them a good night… :D
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I have to admit. Samsung marketing is firing on all cylinders.
That's an effective Ad for an undecided buyer.
It could really swing them to Samsung and away from Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.

A Microsoft Surface potential user may have the hard need to run Office though, so just asking them to move their stuff is as effective as you can do against them if you are Samsung.

LOL.
 
Apple Say what their products can do in Advertising.
Samsung only say what non Samsung products can not do in their advertising.

(Event the Apple vs Windows ads Apple put out did say what OS X and Apple hardware was good at, even if it was in a backwards kind of way.)

Samsung execs would make good politicians in opposition. A lot of talk but really say nothing of what the people want to hear. To get elected though you need a really uncaring public or actually have to tell the people what they want to hear. And I believe Samsung has the uninformed public who buy their products year after year.
 
gnasher729 said:
You are taking these ads much too serious.

And these two actors didn't represent a PC user and a Mac user. They represented a PC and a Mac. By the way, the PC guy (John Hodgman) is a successful writer and actor, so there is no need at all to feel sorry for him.
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They felt sorry for the character he portrayed. The PC. Of course they represented the users. They dressed exactly like the stereotypical users of each platform and helped perpetuate the stereotype. Windows users were assosiated as middle-aged stuffy businessmen with no concept of fun, Mac users were stereotyped as young and trendy, fun etc. I'm not taking them seriously, they annoyed me slightly. Bringing them up as a response to the cries of outrate in this thread is not "taking them much too serious".

gnasher729 said:
You are talking about ads that are many years old. We are talking about ads that are just released. If you haven't got over it after all those years, you are taking it too serious.
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These ads ran as late as 2009. Just because they ran 5 years ago doesn't invalidate them to the fact that they are identical in substance to Samsungs latest ads and again pointing these ads out doesn't make we're taking it too serious. We're having a discussion here, we're pointing out things to each other.
 
I'm surprised they didn't show two people bumping Galaxy tabs to share playlists, calling it the S-Bump, or something.
 
Apple is like the official Royal Family, Samsung is like the new found money up the road from the palace. But based om responses, I'd say Samsung has hit a few nerves with most people.

I love my iPad Air but recently saw a friends Samsung Tablet and must say, I was impressed. (Not running to replace my iPad but I was impressed how far Samsung has come to fine tune their product).

The more people react here, moreso emotionally which majority of you are, the more Samsung's marketing is working ;)
 
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