gnasher729
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Everyone loved the PC guy in these adverts. He was funny. I mean he _is_ a professional comedian. Samsung is just being their usual nasty self.
Samsung Bashes the iPad, Microsoft Surface and Kindle in New Ad
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Everyone loved the PC guy in these adverts. He was funny. I mean he _is_ a professional comedian. Samsung is just being their usual nasty self.
dec.
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It wouldn't be bad if Samsung just focused on themselves like Apple's ads are now. Samsung could easily create an ad showing the strengths of their product. By constantly putting down the competition's customers and creating ads like these it just shows that Samsung's product is very weak and can't make it on it's own merit.
jettredmont
macrumors 68030
Okay, the first venue is just FUD. you can do multiple things at once on an iPad, and people who actually use iPads know this. You double-tap and switch to whichever app, then double-tap and switch back. Then you have the whole screen for your spreadsheet rather than a half screen for that and a half screen watching the other person waiting for you to find your answer. Personally I'd find the Samsung user's experience in the ad highly unnerving.
Then it slides into attacking other tablets in a way meant to confuse just who is inferior to Samsung in every single way.
The last venue is, well, silly. Accurate, at least, but those people are not holding their devices at a distance where they could discern the resolution difference between the Samsung and Apple devices. If they wanted to be truthful, they'd have the iPad lady holding the Samsung device six inches from her face and then bring the iPad up to the same distance, then make that comment. An iPad in your lap is indistinguishable from a Galaxy, resolution-wise, even if you have eyesight superior to 95% of all other humans on the planet.
Then it slides into attacking other tablets in a way meant to confuse just who is inferior to Samsung in every single way.
The last venue is, well, silly. Accurate, at least, but those people are not holding their devices at a distance where they could discern the resolution difference between the Samsung and Apple devices. If they wanted to be truthful, they'd have the iPad lady holding the Samsung device six inches from her face and then bring the iPad up to the same distance, then make that comment. An iPad in your lap is indistinguishable from a Galaxy, resolution-wise, even if you have eyesight superior to 95% of all other humans on the planet.
Worldinmii
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Apple definitely did use those commercials for a long time, and I loved them (for the most part). I would also say that Apple does not have the ONLY marketing companies capable of doing smart and funny commercials.
But, having said that, the Mac vs. PC commercials did not bash the end user (which many of Samsungs commercials have), and they didn't put an incorrect spin on things. Example, in this commercial we are posting about, it talks about the Kindle ONLY being able to read books (there are some Kindles that can do much more), or it talks about the Windows tablets needing to have a mouse and keyboard, when we know that not all of them have to. The only place where they did get it right was with the iPad not being able to truly multitask....that's it!???
zaphon
macrumors 6502
I own a iPad Air, Kindle Fire HD 8.9, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 at home, and I have a Surface Pro at work for Development reasons. Each has it's own pluses and minuses, but let's be honest, this is a lot of mis-information. I hate these kind of ads, sell me on your product, don't try to sell me on why everyone else's sucks.
gnasher729
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I was interviewing to run Samsung's North American PR and I'm really glad I took another job and don't have to be associated with these commercials...
Disparaging another product as HARD as Samsung does doesn't come off as bragging, it comes off as insecure. Insulting the end-user is also shooting yourself in the foot.
Disparaging another product as HARD as Samsung does doesn't come off as bragging, it comes off as insecure. Insulting the end-user is also shooting yourself in the foot.
I Love this Commercial
I am a true apple fan and I have just about every apple product to confirm that but i give credit where credit is due samsung is doing exactly what apple was doing a couple years back with microsoft and now that they are on the receiving end all of these sensitive ass fanboys are getting their panties in a bunch. man please this commercial is classic especially the line about hers having the retina thingy lmao. if this were a apple commercial no body would call it arrogant or desperate cause they are brain washed. but to me funny is funny and good is good and i see nothing wrong with pointing out your competions flaws, Kudo's Sammy. I think apple better re-hire Justin Long
I am a true apple fan and I have just about every apple product to confirm that but i give credit where credit is due samsung is doing exactly what apple was doing a couple years back with microsoft and now that they are on the receiving end all of these sensitive ass fanboys are getting their panties in a bunch. man please this commercial is classic especially the line about hers having the retina thingy lmao. if this were a apple commercial no body would call it arrogant or desperate cause they are brain washed. but to me funny is funny and good is good and i see nothing wrong with pointing out your competions flaws, Kudo's Sammy. I think apple better re-hire Justin Long
Worldinmii
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I agree. Although it wouldn't stop me from buying an iPad (I can imagine some people in the business world have to have it?), but it would be nice to have those options. Hoping iOS 8 may get us closer?
BruceEBonus
macrumors 65816
The really sad thing is:
It shows how insular and anti social society has become in the last five years due to reliance on texting/****-erring/ ArseAboutFacebooking.
Whatever happened to verbal communication?
Sorry. Don't answer that. I've just got one from my Google search.
Verdict: We all lost out in the end.
And nobody even noticed ....
It shows how insular and anti social society has become in the last five years due to reliance on texting/****-erring/ ArseAboutFacebooking.
Whatever happened to verbal communication?
Sorry. Don't answer that. I've just got one from my Google search.
Verdict: We all lost out in the end.
And nobody even noticed ....
DavidLeblond
macrumors 68020
Hate to say it, but if I were to go Android (and I've been mulling it lately) I'd probably go with a Samsung. In the Android world it doesn't seem there is really any other choice, is there?
"from all the "anti" apple (although kindle and surface were in there as well) this is the best imo. song seemed a little cye like.
"light hearted enough and not condescending. mac v pc like in attitude."
"has it come to this that apple "followers" pointing to marketshare? where were you guys in the last two decades?"
Those were all your words. You seem to enjoy the Anti-Apple ads and you're referring to people here that brought up today's marketshare as "Apple Followers".
Me agitated? A bit. Because people like you are funny. You come here and bash others for shaking the Apple pom poms and then you say you're not an Apple hater and use many of their products.
RightMACatU
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RedCroissant
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I'm pretty sure that the reasons for not using Costco was not as simple as being able to sell a lot of product.
Apple isn't know for giving huge discounts even on large orders and essentially devaluing their product. If they decided to use Costco as a full reseller and gave Costco a discount that Costco would marginally pass on to its customers, then that would most likely cut into sales of Apple products at other retailers that stick with Apple's pricing scheme for the most part or even and would also cut into sales at Apple Retail Stores.
Worldinmii
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AND don't forget, theirs is BIGGER and has a gazilion billion more pixels!!!
Talk about innovation!
iPhaithful
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Well
IDK, I can't fault Samsung for calling these other companies out. It's funny, and attention grabbing. Also, let's face it, a lot of what draws us to a product initially is how better it is than another company's product in the same class.
You want to be the one with a bigger screen with better resolution for a cheaper price because it gives you a sense of "winning".
Samsung went for the jugulars in all of the other companies by calling out fuctionality, portability, tasking, etc. and showed how their product is better.
I applaud them. It's pure entertainment.
IDK, I can't fault Samsung for calling these other companies out. It's funny, and attention grabbing. Also, let's face it, a lot of what draws us to a product initially is how better it is than another company's product in the same class.
You want to be the one with a bigger screen with better resolution for a cheaper price because it gives you a sense of "winning".
Samsung went for the jugulars in all of the other companies by calling out fuctionality, portability, tasking, etc. and showed how their product is better.
I applaud them. It's pure entertainment.
iZac
macrumors 68030
I'm honestly not trying to rationalise Apple's advertising, just mentioning that some Samsung ads insult people, not products.
But if you enjoyed it, thats cool too. If their advertising works, then they've done a good job, no matter how they got to their point.
Well, if you look at the two screens side by side let's agree that it will be difficult to tell the difference in the pixel counts. But yes in a retail environment where sales reps are incented through commissions to push one over the other, they can persuade a customer to buy this or that. But this point does not invalidate my point in any way.
RedCroissant
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I would say that Samsung is the best brand for Android. The only problem with that is that this commercial did say that the screen images were simulated, duration was edited to make it seem faster than it really was, and the benefits of multitasking like they show is not available on all of their products.
Then you still have to deal with marginal Android support/upgrades/updates.
I think that if you're considering going to a different platform and still mulling it over, then wait another year for the next iteration coming out of Microsoft. They're moving in the right direction with more integration and are on the same path to have a better ecosystem (which Android does not have unless you want to use Google to sync everything).