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Samsung Compares Galaxy S9 to Very Slow iPhone 6 in Frivolous Ad
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I can confirm that the 6S is working perfectly well, at least for me!
Well there’s a problem with the logic here. The iPhone 6 is 4 years old! It’s still usable by the consumer which is freaking awesome in my books. Usually PCs phones etc die off after just a couple of years. So to have a phone last that long is absolutely amazing
The 6 is not really usable, 6s same, might be 4 years old but been sold for long time and 6s pretty much the same.
Actually, what Apple needs to do is take that commercial, and take it apart in another commercial. Do a brutal scene by scene comparison and commentary. Like 'Here they show their new phone and an iPhone that has been out for over 4 years'. 'Here, they do not show the 8plus because if they did, it would blow their whole advert out of the water'. 'Notice how they portray the Apple genius as being far less helpful than they really are'. 'Here's a few benchmarks comparing the currently available iPhone models to this 'fast' S9. The current iPhone models leave their 'phone' standing at the gate.'
That would be brilliant, brutal, totally legal...
On the other hand, no one was endangered by a slowed down iPhone 6, but the Samsung Note 7...??? Yep.
Nearly a minute to open wallet? There's something else wrong with your iPhone. No matter how bad that CPU is throttled, thats way too long. Less than 3 seconds on iPhone 5s on iOS 11 and even an iPhone 4s doesn't nearly take as long (on iOS 9).
I'd suggest you connect your iPhone 6 to iTunes and restore iOS.
Nobody needs to replace a fully working iPhone 6 really. Battery replacement is cheap.
Don’t expect the fandroids to have good taste. This is the kind of ad that appeals to them because that’s also the kind of language and style they use when they troll this forum.
Benchmarks? Consumers don't care about benchmarks.
The S9 is faster than the new Iphones in day to day use
Your post is full of rambling, off topic stuff. I'm not sure what your point is, it just sounds like either my post or this commercial upset you.
That’s the problem. Nothing the galaxy phone has really appeals to iPhone users and Samsung knows it.
Both the “PC” guy and the notch haircut guy are personifications, regardless of the context, so they are the same thing.
I don’t find anything in the ad mocking an Apple customer but I’m also clearly not going to change your mind either so if you want to feel like Samsung has mocked you, than have at it.
Pretty sure it works the other way around as well. I don't want a lower resolution screen, notches in the display, half of the ram my phone has, less battery life, no file manager, lower performance, camera bump, and the list goes on. Not to mention more expensive and doesn't work with half of my home automation devices. This is my opinion at least, but I'm sure there majority of Android folks feel the same way.
That’s the thing. The users in the Apple ecosystem would by this time already be largely self-selecting. They are iPhone users because they value the unique advantages the platform has to offer. If they wanted the aforementioned features, then why are they still using an iPhone? Why haven’t they migrated over to an android phone?
In short, the key features which make android phones uniquely android, iOS users by and large don’t care for them. And Samsung knows it.
It's time like this where I wish Jobs were still around. He would have ripped these guys a new one lol.
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And if Apple released a video where people with Samsung phones were exploding and catching on fire, would it also be "fair game"? It's a joke of a commercial aimed at people with lower than average intelligence.
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And if Apple released a video where people with Samsung phones were exploding and catching on fire, would it also be "fair game"? It's a joke of a commercial aimed at people with lower than average intelligence.
While the Mac and PC characters actually say what they are, nothing of the sort is in the Samsung commercial. And while your (and perhaps that of some others) interpretation is that the notch haircut is the same kind of personification, the more likely and simpler interpretation that it's a depiction of really "dedicated" Apple flans can't be disqualified by that. I have no feelings about it one way or another, simply commenting on observations.
Yes, the 6 & 6s are fast if running iOS 10. If you made the mistake of upgrading to iOS 11, you might as well throw it in the trash.
And again. Android users don't want a downgrade, which is why they choose Android. And Apple knows this. That was kinda my point. Now for those who have been let down by the defective batteries and intentional throttling, they have the biggest chance to move away from the locked down ecosystem, and secrecy of Apple.
I would argue that we each value different things, and we each choose the platform which best suits our needs. iOS isn’t necessarily a downgrade compared to android if you don’t really need the stuff which android can do which iOS can’t.
And let’s not pretend that android is not without its share of problems. Notice how in the video, the customer is able to go to an Apple store and have someone look at her iPhone? What’s Samsung’s equivalent to that?
Fortnite is now just coming to android. iOS users have gotten to enjoy the game for a couple of weeks already.
iOS is also home to the iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and Apple TV. So if you want a compelling ecosystem where your devices all integrate well with one another, Apple is still the way to go.
Either way, if you were hoping for some sort of mass exodus in response to the throttling issue, I suspect you will be sorely disappointed. For all the outcries over this matter, there seems to have been little fallout over the matter and it looks like we will continue to be happy iPhone users for a good many years to come.
There are a larger number of people switching to iOS than switching away. That kind of tells me there are a lot of users that don’t think it’s a downgrade.
Seems to be the other way around. Android is still gaining market share while ios is losing.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/22/ios-android-duopoloy-reaches-99-9-percent/amp/
https://thenextweb.com/contributors...ios-despite-iphone-x-6-tech-predictions-2018/
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ios-market-share-us-europe-japan-2018-1
All articles are from this year.
Article one doesn’t mention switchers, but an overall growing market that is in developing nations.
The second article is a joke, right? Did you even read it?
The third is from Kantar, so basically more guesses.
Do you have any actual evidence that there aren’t more switchers to iPhone from Android?