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Samsung Debuts Apple-Like Design Video for Galaxy S6 Edge

Jsameds said:
If we just stay in 2015 territory then the design of the S6 is uncannily similar to the iPhone 6.

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Beyond that you have the aptly named Samsung Pay (Apple's version is called Apple Pay).

The box and accessory design

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The fingerprint scanner setup

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The stock keyboard

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Samsung Wallet

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The headphones

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And now this wonderful video. Don't forget that's just recently..
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If you dont know what you are talking about then sshhhhh

The design is not Samsung ripping of Apple. Apple totally shameless took most from samsungs 2012 Samsung Ativ and called it iPhone 6

The same with EarPods. Apple copied them to from Samsung. They had those in 2010
 
Simplicated said:
"... Carving from blocks of aerospace-grade aluminum, ..."

The person speaking is just trying to mimic an English accent. Samsung just HAS to copy everything Apple does... down to design videos, and the accent.
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I might be mistaken, but I could have sworn it sounded like an Asian guy faking an English accent.

"Asians with Weird Posh English Accents"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jz4aSxdEQI
 
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AppleInTheMud said:
Sorry. I have both... iPhone 6 has an "okay" design, but the S6 Edge is absolutly beautiful. Sooooo after iPhone 6 and now after S6 Apple is the one behind.
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In your opinion it "is absolutly beautiful" and "Apple is the one design".
The S6 is definitely a step up from the S4 and S5 in appearance. Then again, that's a low threshold. Apple is certainly not behind, although a case could be made that products leap frog one another by virtue of their release dates etc. The iPhone 6 and 6+ are still beautiful products with great functionality, features.
 
holydude said:
Ok you are absolutely correct at this. Apple did not invent it from scratch. That much is a fact.

But...apple built something that koreans could not do. They built brand, ecosystem, hell they even built a new programming language for their stuff, they built a religion. They may use samsung components but everybody just see the product as a whole. The quality might be declining recently on apple's part but still...


Also what you think about this ad/promo ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTMqitGzEsA
I know it's a bit too long but it's very well executed in my opinion.
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You sound like a bigot. Samsung is a hell of a brand. May not be as shiny as Apple but a hell of a brand all the same. Do a Wiki search on it. By the way Samsung is in countless more industries than Apple, countless. You’re telling me that in all of the other things they do they haven’t built some great processes/languages etc?

Also what you think about this ad/promo ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Afpey7Eldo
 
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anonimium said:
If Samsung were a person, it would have the personality of a zombie (or lack thereof)
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No, I think it would be more like an obnoxious high school student that tries too hard to get everyone to like them, in part by shamelessly copying the clothing and hairstyle of a popular classmate, while also copying test answers from smarter classmates.
 
Shaun said:
You could say the same about Apple and they're doing ok.

Steve Jobs's strategy was to replicate the Japanese way. Take something that already exists and make it smaller, lighter and better. He often said how he admired Sony for their designs and innovation.
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I think Hewlett-Packard (the 1970s version) was the real influence. Woz worked at HP and Jobs was a summer part-timer. These young punks saw a technology company kicking ass and integrating diverse elements of industrial design, engineering, and enlightened, effective management. When Jobs went on stage and held up the first iPhone, he was holding the 21st century version of the HP-35.
 
itouch rulz said:
Ive has such an annoying voice with the ultra-calm tones and extra long pauses. When I watch one of his videos I always think, speak a bit faster you could convey that information in half the time. Actually one thing that puts me off Apple is their infomercials made for 6 year olds.
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If you were placed in charge, Apple's ads would sound like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GznhT__PXs
 
62tele said:
The "Edge" itself has limited, if any, value. It's a gimmick. That's Samdung's design DNA: gimmicks. (Like bumping phones-pure gimmick).

It is Samdung's nicest design and it's a quality device. It's still pretty "me too" in it's appearance.
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From a functional perspective, perhaps - but the aesthetics of it are pretty amazing. Between the super high pixel density OLED screen, and the curved edge, the content on the screen pops out in a way it doesn't on other phones.

In addition, there's something really remarkable when pulling drawers out from the left of the device, they seem to glide over the glass and pop onto the content.

In the same way a glass/metal phone is not necessarily functionally better than a plastic one, there are aesthetic considerations that come into play with the S6 Edge.

I for one was smitten, and in my meetings in conference rooms full of a sea of iPhones, it is remarkable how often it gets noticed and admired.
 
God, I hate copy cats so much!!!!

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RogerWilco said:
Interesting sentiment considering that without Sammy as a volume supplier of key OEM components, Apple would be up the creek without a paddle.
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Samsung should stick to making components for OEMs. That's about the only thing they're good at.

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RogerWilco said:
I think the Samsung video is the better of the two. Watch them with the volume muted to remove the annoying narrators. Production values are more refined and the content is more interesting in Samsung's spiel. Yes, there are similarities in a couple of scenes. Their close "We are digital craftsmen" IMO is far more powerful and speaks to the average customer.
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But it's all phony. Samsung is not a design company. Their entire business model is based on shamelessly copying the work of others. This transcends mobile phones, as they've demonstrated the same shameless behavior by copying everything from Nvidia's GPU technology to Dyson's vacuum cleaners.

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kodos said:
From a functional perspective, perhaps - but the aesthetics of it are pretty amazing. Between the super high pixel density OLED screen, and the curved edge, the content on the screen pops out in a way it doesn't on other phones.

I for one was smitten, and in my meetings in conference rooms full of a sea of iPhones, it is remarkable how often it gets noticed and admired.
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Right... Noticed I get that, but admired. Seriously? And I've seen a few, some with the side screen really smudged (as expected); I noticed that too.

This review calls it essentially a gimmick (and this is certainly not an Apple friendly site)

http://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-a-quirk-that-doesnt-really-work-1694821006

There is higher reflectivity related to this screen and some distorsion on the side.

Other thing, If you consider it is Pentile Oled, it's not super high density, its run of the mill high density (actual real resolution when taking the reduction linked to Pentile, closer to one the Iphone 6+)

Another thing, durability of the screen will be less, physics dictates it; if your ok with that, then fine.


Right now, the plain S6 is a better buy than the edge unless you like to impress the neighbors for a while; eventually they too will get bored though.
 
The amount of ******** in this thread is immense.

Samsung gets a lot of vitriol here, and sometimes it's understandable. Especially for their adverts.

They make solid products though, and the S6 seems to be one of their best yet.
 
69Mustang said:
Well they did come up with the Edge. So there is that.
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This is just another example of their "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" strategy. Curved display tech has been around for a while and Samsung decided to claim "First!" by including it on one of their phones. As usual, though, they failed to provide a compelling real world use case for it.

If Apple incorporates something similar in the future, rest assured it will provide a lot more utility than Samsung's version.
 
heyyoudvd said:
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The complete and utter lack of alignment on anything shows that Samsung still has a LONG way to go if it wishes to catch up with Apple's level of meticulous hardware design.
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Maybe in your world alignment means quality design.

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I guess you don't like the Apple Watch then.
It won the Red Dot "Best of the Best" though.
 
Amplelink said:
The thing is, it'll work because 99% of the people who'll watch that video won't have compared it to anything Apple has done. So to them it'll seem like a cool original video. And Samsung will look incredibly creative.
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Of maybe Samsung's target market will consider the video too "high brow" for their taste and long for the return of the Galaxy Gear douche.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jsDWV8YpQ

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mbh said:
Samsung's headphone jack is on the bottom now.

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So innovative. So brave.
 
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