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Samsung Compares Galaxy S9 to Very Slow iPhone 6 in Frivolous Ad
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Apple isn't afraid of suing others and has plenty of money for lawyers. If Apple doesn't sue, the reasonable conclusion is that even Apple's lawyers know the commercial is not something they can sue for.
So - spend $79 for a new battery installed and you are back in business. That amount is 8% of the cost of a new phone.
Dear Samsung,
There are some people still waiting for Android O update for their brand new last years Samsung phones while in the mean time Android P available as beta. This ad is beyond pathetic.
There are some people still waiting for Android O update for their brand new last years Samsung phones while in the mean time Android P available as beta. This ad is beyond pathetic.
Note 7 owners couldn’t even go pass that airport security line
Interesting....but still: when having the boarding card in the wallet app at an airport there's a notification on the lock screen that takes you to the boarding card. There's no lagg doing that except for maybe the process of unlocking your phone.
You can make a conjecture that that can be a reason why that doesn't happen, but you certainly can't say that is in fact the actual reason and, more importantly, that because they can't sue for it that it's therefore can't be misleading simply based on that one aspect.
A bunch of people still use the iPhone 6, I tuck Samsung is targeting them.
Forget apple and Samsung overpriced established brands.... Samsung been mass-producing 8 gig of ram memory chips for 1.5 years... Apple, last year just started to up their ram.. finally.. good peformers r other non established brands...... But, it depends what's one wants.... This year's smartphones ate slightly better than last year's ...next year, is 5 g phones, and 7 die fabricated socs, like processors... Next year, worth buying upgraded phone... Samsung suck for market, cause first phone to get the snapdragon 845 due to their contact to produce Qualcomms 845... Next year, rummor is apples contracted tmsc is also going to also produce Qualcomm next snapdragon.. hopefully, other handsets will have equal start with next year's chipsets... I do not enjoy either apples or Samsung... Seen better days is like honor 10, OnePlus 6, Asus, giving more specs for less $... 8 gig of ram is highly important.. Samsung still don't install after Mass producing then for 1.5 years....
But can see Samsung outperforming apple, by ram hogging intensive apps...other brands like establishing OnePlus, Asus, others, they put more money into each device than these top 2 brands. Kinda suck, so many paying premium dollars for so little... When they could be paying half as much for better phones.
But can see Samsung outperforming apple, by ram hogging intensive apps...other brands like establishing OnePlus, Asus, others, they put more money into each device than these top 2 brands. Kinda suck, so many paying premium dollars for so little... When they could be paying half as much for better phones.
Samsung has released a new ad encouraging iPhone users to upgrade to the Galaxy S9, but there are several holes in the video.
First and foremost, instead of comparing the two-month-old Galaxy S9 to the iPhone X, or even the iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, the one-minute clip shows a woman becoming increasingly frustrated with her seemingly glacially slow iPhone 6, released in 2014, as she travels by plane to visit her sister.
Samsung acknowledges this fact with fine print that says "newer iPhone models are currently available," but that doesn't stop it from comparing its 2018 flagship with a nearly four year old iPhone model.
The woman's woes start at an airport security checkpoint, where a security officer reminds travelers to have their boarding passes and IDs ready. The woman taps on the Wallet app on her iPhone, but a white screen appears, suggesting the device is lagging badly. The security officer is visibly displeased.
The next scene shows the woman attempting to open the TV app to watch a movie during her flight, as the person with a Galaxy S9 is doing next to her, only for the same white screen to occur again, suggesting the iPhone is still lagging.
The ad is deceiving, however, as it never shows whether the Wallet or TV apps eventually manage to open. Instead, Samsung conveniently cuts away to the next scene after a split second each time. The fine print also says "screen images simulated," suggesting the slowness might not even be real to begin with.
Later in the night, the woman visits an Apple Store and asks if her slow iPhone can be fixed that night. In a monotonous voice, the employee advises her that she can turn off Apple's performance management, at the risk of unexpected shutdowns, without mentioning that a battery replacement may solve the problem.
Looking exhausted, the woman leaves the store and walks by a person with a notch-shaped haircut that clearly mocks the iPhone X, as seen in an earlier ad.
At the end of the ad, the woman can be seen unboxing and using a Galaxy S9, having finally upgraded to that device.
Samsung's decision to use an older iPhone in the video may have something to do with the iPhone X outperforming the Galaxy S9 in benchmark tests, but it also gave them an opportunity to mock Apple's performance management, which isn't enabled on the latest iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, or iPhone X.
In reality, even a four-year-old iPhone 6 being throttled by Apple's performance management shouldn't be nearly as slow as Samsung depicts in the ad. And if it is, then there are likely underlying issues.
It's fair game for Samsung to try to convince iPhone users to switch to the Galaxy S9, but its execution in this ad was poor.
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Comparing RAM amongst Android devices makes sense, doing so between an iOS and Android device does not. Hint: One has always performed better with less RAM than the other would with the equivalent amount.
Android doesn't need further throttling, Android takes care of slowing everything down, very nicely indeed... only unintentionally, not by design. Funny how these phones have DESKTOP amounts of RAM, only to (almost) keep up with the same speeds iOS demonstrates with a FAR leaner, more efficient CPU design and smaller amount of RAM... that's called "good design", not chucking RAM at a problem which Google are to inept to ever have fixed, which was there from day 1, by way of sloppy, lazy "design".
I have four friends that are still on 6’s (not 6s), the performance in the *samsung commercial* are nowhere near real world performance. Are they buttery smooth? No, but they’re way better than this joke of a commercial attempts to paint them.
What's amusing, is that years ago Apple got in trouble for artificially speeding up iPhones in ads.
Now Samsung will likely get in trouble for artificially slowing down iPhones in ads.
Now Samsung will likely get in trouble for artificially slowing down iPhones in ads.
"Only a weak opponent feels the need to constantly challenge those above them"
Do Samsung phones from four years ago even get software updates? Honest question.
My old S6 is still getting security updates. However it's not getting updated from 7 to 8.
At least it's getting something. I've heard that's not the case for many Android phones.
I hate to say it, but I think this is actually really clever ad by Samsung. I know many in here don’t appreciate (Or understand) the marketing tactic behind their motive, but in the sense of what they’re actually doing, they are specifically identifiying who own an iPhone 6 and are looking to upgrade or are ready for an upgrade. I understand everyone does not agree with how they are marketing this, but there is a clever tactic behind it.
You are totally missing the point. My point is that for a few years Apple's ad campaign was to call out issues with PC's, and passively suggest to buy a Mac instead. Samsung is doing the exact same thing with this, so to say that Apple is "above" this kind of marketing is bull.
Plus, some of the issues the Mac vs. PC ads called out were very general, such as PC's getting viruses, so they are absolutely applicable to machines that are 4 years old.
That's your POV though, right? But I doubt PC users thought the same. Just like how the majority of people here think the Samsung ad is stupid, deceitful, etc. but I bet Samsung users think its funny and clever.
Also, what is untrue in the Samsung ad?
Android phones don't need the same kind of "OS" updates that iOS devices need.
E.g. iOS 10 brought updates to Siri, Apple Maps, Home, iMessage, Photo, News and other core Apple apps... primary apps that cannot be updated separately, such as is done all the time in Android devices.
More often, iOS updates mostly give a higher OS number, and lower speed, to older iOS devices... not new features. Been there, done that, a lot.