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Samsung Compares Galaxy S9 to Very Slow iPhone 6 in Frivolous Ad
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I appreciate your feedback though I worded everything exactly how I intended to in the context of that specific conversation.
The boarding pass loading at the 6 or shortly after the second mark followed by the guard saying alright so they did show it load but it was so brief that was hard to notice.
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.
Article Link: Samsung Compares Galaxy S9 to Very Slow iPhone 6 in Frivolous Ad
In my opinion, the ad is clearly mocking some Apple customers and I find that to be both funny and clever. There is a group of Apple fans (many on MR) that will justify anything Apple does and spin it as something positive. To this day I still laugh out loud when I see someone wearing Airpods. To me, the ad might cause someone to subliminally think about what they are actually buying from Apple.
So what evidence do you have that there are more switchers to iPhone from Android? My memory of recent market share charts is that its pretty much a wash, with some countries going one way and some going the other, but overall iPhones are still a small percentage globally. If anything, I'm noticing way more Android users around me when I'm traveling that I recall in the past.
There has never been any doubt about what I am buying from Apple.
You laugh out loud whenever you see someone wearing AirPods? How mature of you...
I see several people with AirPods in public every day. I never saw anyone mocking them or laughing at them. I myself don't feel ridiculed wearing AirPods, the average person doesn't find anything obviously laughable about them so most people just don't care.
AirPods are hugely successful, perhaps because they're a great product.
I live in a real city and they're pretty popular here. People in Raleigh, NC have nothing better to do than laugh out loud at others in public I guess. Also they're a great product as the user above said.
Right because all overweight people use PCs and people with notch haircuts use iPhones. I got it now.
Wow.... that's not even close to what my reply stated, nor implied. If you can't understand the difference between what you said and what was written in my reply, this conversation is over.
And the ad is targeted at people that are probably the literal opposite of you... so not surprising that it doesn't resonate with you. If it did, then the ad would probably have completely missed the target audience.
I live in a real city too... and I also travel all over the world to many other cities. I'm not sure how that's relevant unless you are just trying to insult me for where I live. The appearance of Airpods doesn't change by geography.
Its great that you and the prior poster love Airpods. Its great we have choices. You are also proving my point, and why the haircut thing in the ad is mocking people that buy whatever Apple comes out with because its Apple. If you can't admit that Airpods look a bit dorky (to anyone but an Apple fan), then you are really fooling yourself.
Almost nobody will buy "whatever Apple comes out with" just because Apple came out with it. Apple just happens to make great products that millions of people like and work those products mostly work best in conjunction.
By the way, I know of several people who bought AirPods to use with their Android phone.
If you honestly can't imagine people liking AirPods because of the ease of use, sound quality and yes, also the looks, without necessarily being Apple fans (which the aforementioned Android phone users aren't very likely to be), that is a quite narrow-minded stance.
AirPods may indeed look dorky when people have them sticking out of their ears sideways like I've seen a few times. That's because anything looks dorky if you don't know how to wear it properly.
While they can look a bit odd to some, mostly because they are essentially something new/different, it often doesn't have much to do with being an Apple fan or not when it comes to feeling that way about them or not.
A combination of what is said on earnings calls with that loyalty thing I linked earlier. I could be caught up in my own biases, though, and trying to link two unimportant things.
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The AirPods look dorky, but work really well. Some of us aren’t so self conscious about what we use.
I seem to have struck a nerve with a number of folks on the Airpods. I get that they work well. That has nothing to do with appearance, and glad that at least one other person on here will admit they look dorky. I wore the Apple Watch for 2 years and to me that looks dorky as well... although not as much as the Airpods. I've bought and used a lot of tech over the years that was way dorky looking.
bringing this back to why I brought up Airpods... Samsung is taking a shot at Apple fans with the haircut thing. For the Apple fans that are offended by it, I'd just suggest you take it as a badge of honor rather than being offended. People that aren't really "fans" but rather just owners may think about some of this stuff more and it may nudge them to look outside Apple products for their next phone... that's the point.
You come across way more reasonable now then in your first post mentioning AirPods. Except that you still state as an absolute that AirPods "look dorky", although that is highly subjective. Some people might agree with you, some won't.
To me, in all honesty, AirPods don't look dorky in the slightest when worn properly (that is, the stems converging towards your jaw instead of wildly sticking out like q-tips).
If you really want to look dorky, put your AirPods in upside down like little antennas.
I don’t think they look dorky at all.
But go on, tell me how you are right and that I am just fooling myself. Because apparently you have the final word on fashion sense and your words carry even more weight than myself or anyone else who uses the Airpods on a daily basis and isn’t embarrassed to be seen wearing them in public.
I’m a fan of good tech, but I think some people that buy Apple stuff get touchy because they get told they’re sheep so much.
No, because most companies have at least enough class to not focus pretty much completely on their competition.
The default email app for iPhone 4s is superior to email app on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 especially since it takes forever to simply move or delete multiple emails using Samsung and is nearly instantaneous using iPhone 4s. The only feature of the mail that keeps me from discarding Samsung is the ability to sort emails alphabetically by sender or subject.
The 6 is my everyday phone, and while I agree there is definitely lag, it's nowhere near as bad as your experience.
So using a quick, less-than-strictly scientific method, I counted from initial tap and stopped when the white screen disappeared:
Wallet (not opened since yesterday)
- First open: <6s
- Close and reopen: <4s
- First open: <5s
- Close and reopen: <4s
That still seems way too long for an iPhone 6, given my iPhone 5s does it significantly faster even on power save mode. Especially the close and reopen times, those shouldn't take several seconds.
I'd suggest doing a clean install of iOS via iTunes on your Mac or PC.