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Samsung Continues to Poke Fun at Apple Fans in Super Bowl Ad
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Well yes, but some products deserve to be camped out over. I think Apple has reached their peak. If the next Apple product turns out to be good, I just might camp out again.
Will anything excite me again? We'll see.
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What do you call a group that tends to hang out at Apple sites and do nothing but spew anti-apple gibberish all the time?
Hmmm....
I actually loved the ad, even though I won't be buying the product. It was over the top, fun, and I'm a huge fan of that song. It was actually quite appropriate for the ad.
The Darkness
It helps if you know who The Darkness are. They were massive in the UK for about a year or two and then died out.....fast. I kept looking at the singer. Is it Justin Hawkins? No, it isn't. Maybe it is. No, definitely not. Most Americans have never heard of The Darkness so the gag is likely lost on them.
I doubt the ad will make much of an impact on Apple sales but it is exactly what Apple did to Microsoft, so fair play.
It helps if you know who The Darkness are. They were massive in the UK for about a year or two and then died out.....fast. I kept looking at the singer. Is it Justin Hawkins? No, it isn't. Maybe it is. No, definitely not. Most Americans have never heard of The Darkness so the gag is likely lost on them.
I doubt the ad will make much of an impact on Apple sales but it is exactly what Apple did to Microsoft, so fair play.
This wasn't the first time Samsung grasped desperately to get people to use their terrible Android products. They did these commercials a few months ago.
It's funny they blew millions on this ad all the while iPhone is now the top selling most selling phone, Apple reported it's best quarter ever and the closest competitor to the iPad isn't a Samsung device it's Amazon's Kindle Fire. Maybe instead of wasting millions insulting the customers you hope to lure to your subpar phones, Samsung might want to work on quality.
Somewhere the RIM heads wish they had the 3.5 million to spend on an ad during the Super Bowl. RIM might be stumbling but least they spend their little money on attempting to save Blackberry. Samsung, HTC, and Motorola will be out of the cell phone business soon if they keep touting the terrible Android interface.
I had two Android phones (and one when it was T-Mobile's flagship phone and the first true android phone). They both were so bad I got a Blackberry but I'd probably jump to iPhone given the chance.
A stylus really? Hey we're Samsung and we're bringing 1997 back!
It's funny they blew millions on this ad all the while iPhone is now the top selling most selling phone, Apple reported it's best quarter ever and the closest competitor to the iPad isn't a Samsung device it's Amazon's Kindle Fire. Maybe instead of wasting millions insulting the customers you hope to lure to your subpar phones, Samsung might want to work on quality.
Somewhere the RIM heads wish they had the 3.5 million to spend on an ad during the Super Bowl. RIM might be stumbling but least they spend their little money on attempting to save Blackberry. Samsung, HTC, and Motorola will be out of the cell phone business soon if they keep touting the terrible Android interface.
I had two Android phones (and one when it was T-Mobile's flagship phone and the first true android phone). They both were so bad I got a Blackberry but I'd probably jump to iPhone given the chance.
A stylus really? Hey we're Samsung and we're bringing 1997 back!
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In-Line Experience
I don't know about any of you, but I had a pretty fantastic time waiting in line for my iPhone 4 on release day. Went to the Apple Store alone, ended up meeting new people around me.... we all put in some change and ordered ourselves a couple pizzas, went for coffee runs....
Was a good experience - an experience that is permanently tied to my iPhone 4.
I'll probably be in line bright and early for the iPhone 5 launch.... if anything it's an amazing event to meet new people you wouldn't normally have the opportunity to meet otherwise.
Thats just my $0.02 anyways.....
I don't know about any of you, but I had a pretty fantastic time waiting in line for my iPhone 4 on release day. Went to the Apple Store alone, ended up meeting new people around me.... we all put in some change and ordered ourselves a couple pizzas, went for coffee runs....
Was a good experience - an experience that is permanently tied to my iPhone 4.
I'll probably be in line bright and early for the iPhone 5 launch.... if anything it's an amazing event to meet new people you wouldn't normally have the opportunity to meet otherwise.
Thats just my $0.02 anyways.....
Riiiight...
"Hi, I'm a mac
and I'm a PC."
You must be forgetting about all those commercials.
Dear god, this thread is full of.....fanboys....like complete fanboys who are stuck in the Apple reality distortion field.....really guys, do some research before you talk. This place is filled with either trolls or just plain idiots.
Riiiiiight. So, when Apple makes a good decision it is their decision, but when they make a bad one it is somebody else's fault.
The lemmings commercial, and even the 1984 one, could easily be construed as attacking the users.
I had an LG Cookie (horrible phone) and it had a stylus which I thought would be fun. I can count how many times I drew with it on one hand. Granted, the Note's bigger screen and capacitive touch screen would make it more enjoyable, but like the Cookie, I can't imagine how a stylus would make up for the rest of the OS's shortcomings.
A big screen and a stylus still doesn't differentiate a Samsung product from another Android OEM. Their skin does more to mask the ICS look than improve on it.
A big screen and a stylus still doesn't differentiate a Samsung product from another Android OEM. Their skin does more to mask the ICS look than improve on it.
A horrible combination of being a Mac user since 1986 and a Cliff Clavin like talent for useless trivia.
Riiiiiight. So, when Apple makes a good decision it is their decision, but when they make a bad one it is somebody else's fault.
What are you talking about? Apple obviously let them run it.
The lemmings one did attack the customer. The 1984 one did not. Big brother is clearly the antagonist. Not a stupid user.