Yes it will. IMO, the iphone sold very well DESPITE having a ridiculously small screen for today use, no thanks to at all. Now with big screens, it will be an unprecedented success. I mean, even normal people with 5s are willing to change
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Yes it will. IMO, the iphone sold very well DESPITE having a ridiculously small screen for today use, no thanks to at all. Now with big screens, it will be an unprecedented success. I mean, even normal people with 5s are willing to change
I personally can't wait for an iphone mini with a 2.5-3" screen, and less than 50 grams!
This comment is serious.
I would say that strategy has worked tremendously for them. Samsung went from an also ran to the only Android vendor in the conversation with Apple. That boatload of cash they threw into marketing paid huge dividends, metaphorically and literally.
3-4 qtrs of decline does not necessarily mean their marketing strategy is not working. No correlation. It means the rest of the market has taken advantage of the current conditions. This is just armchair analysis, so take it with a grain of salt.
Anthropomorphically, Samsung has a man crush on Apple. So yeah, they may obsess on Apple. They realized, or Apple made them, copying the style of the iPhone wasn't going to get it. So they differentiated and had marketing tell the world why they think are the best alternative to the iPhone. It worked like a charm to Samsung's success and Phil Schiller's chagrin. Well while they were concentrating on Apple other Android producers were concentrating on them. Specifically the Chinese. They hit Samsung where it hurt; high volume, lower cost handsets. Basically they are fighting a war on two fronts. They just need to figure out how to combat that, not change their ads. I think their ads are one of the stronger cards they play. Again, armchair. Opinion. Grain of salt. Did I forget one? Oh yeah... absolute 100% declarative fact.
It's the internet, what did you expect?
But you're admitting that while you don't want those things, you do in fact want a bigger display? Android and TouchWiz really aren't so bad once you give them a chance.
The entire Apple Mac vs PC campaign made fun of PC people, comparing them to dumpy looking geeks wearing suits.
Apple didn't exactly endear themselves to non-Mac users.
But you're admitting that while you don't want those things, you do in fact want a bigger display? Android and TouchWiz really aren't so bad once you give them a chance.
Yes, another example of "It sucked until Apple did it - then it became a great idea".
This comment is serious.
I would say that strategy has worked tremendously for them. Samsung went from an also ran to the only Android vendor in the conversation with Apple. That boatload of cash they threw into marketing paid huge dividends, metaphorically and literally.
3-4 qtrs of decline does not necessarily mean their marketing strategy is not working. No correlation. It means the rest of the market has taken advantage of the current conditions. This is just armchair analysis, so take it with a grain of salt.
Anthropomorphically, Samsung has a man crush on Apple. So yeah, they may obsess on Apple. They realized, or Apple made them, copying the style of the iPhone wasn't going to get it. So they differentiated and had marketing tell the world why they think are the best alternative to the iPhone. It worked like a charm to Samsung's success and Phil Schiller's chagrin. Well while they were concentrating on Apple other Android producers were concentrating on them. Specifically the Chinese. They hit Samsung where it hurt; high volume, lower cost handsets. Basically they are fighting a war on two fronts. They just need to figure out how to combat that, not change their ads. I think their ads are one of the stronger cards they play. Again, armchair. Opinion. Grain of salt. Did I forget one? Oh yeah... absolute 100% declarative fact.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bufTna0WArc
No one is offended (well, some might be, but I bet the majority's self worth isn't based on what the a competitor advertises about their phone).
The point are these ads are stupid because they don't work. Anymore.
They worked once upon a time when the only people buying Android were Apple haters who were willing to buy an obviously inferior product just because it wasn't Apple/was Google. The mocking of the iPhone users appealed to them.
It doesn't work anymore because Android is a solid product, and there are good reasons to purchase an Android phone on its own merits. The buyers aren't just anti-Apple/pro-Google fanboys, and to them this just comes across as petty.
Fortunately for Samsung, their Android competitors cannot spend the advertising revenue of Apple, MSFT, and Coke combined to promote their products so they still do the best, but most likely not due to the quality of the ads.
That is a special coupon given to Samsung Special Ops Agents. Did you get that from Renzatic?
Yup. Renzatic is my supplier. Although lately I've been using samcraig. Don't get me wrong. Ren's coupons aren't Stimpy, but samcraig takes his coupons to the next level. He magic marker's out the word counterfeit (really neatly) AND changes the date with Wite Out and an IBM Selectric II.
Serious question. You people that say "am I the only one" when talking about wanting a small screen. Are you all joking? Because you all can't seriously see each other saying this a hundred times and still wonder if you're the only one. Right?
I think some people are misunderstanding the point of these samsung ads. These ads aren't make to get iPhone users to switch to Samsung, these are made for existing samsung users to feel smug about having a samsung by mocking iPhone users.
This comment is serious.
I would say that strategy has worked tremendously for them. Samsung went from an also ran to the only Android vendor in the conversation with Apple. That boatload of cash they threw into marketing paid huge dividends, metaphorically and literally.
3-4 qtrs of decline does not necessarily mean their marketing strategy is not working. No correlation. It means the rest of the market has taken advantage of the current conditions. This is just armchair analysis, so take it with a grain of salt.
Anthropomorphically, Samsung has a man crush on Apple. So yeah, they may obsess on Apple. They realized, or Apple made them, copying the style of the iPhone wasn't going to get it. So they differentiated and had marketing tell the world why they think are the best alternative to the iPhone. It worked like a charm to Samsung's success and Phil Schiller's chagrin. Well while they were concentrating on Apple other Android producers were concentrating on them. Specifically the Chinese. They hit Samsung where it hurt; high volume, lower cost handsets. Basically they are fighting a war on two fronts. They just need to figure out how to combat that, not change their ads. I think their ads are one of the stronger cards they play. Again, armchair. Opinion. Grain of salt. Did I forget one? Oh yeah... absolute 100% declarative fact.
Its a sign of decline....if you're losing money for almost a yr, youre declining. What's funny is people (not necessarily you) were saying Apple was declining or doomed cuz of their stock price, when their sales and profits were growing. Funny world we live in.
I've got no idea why, but to my eyes the S5 res looks grainy when viewing the same content on my iPhone 5.
Not impressed at all
"Smug" is the very definition of an iPhone user. Even I, an iPhone user, realizes this when reading fanbboi posts.
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Could be artifacts of OLED vs. IPS screens.
Apple took extreme care to make sure that none of the people using PCs were made fun of. Any PC user associating themselves with the "dumpy" guy in a suit did so on his own and at no point, ever, did Apple think this would or could ever happen. Ever.
Is it me, or does this advertisement defeat the point? Outside of the tech circle closely following Apple news, I an pretty sure the general public has no idea what the next iphone will be like. Now, Samsung has just announced to the public how the next iphone may well have a larger display. All the more customers are going to hold out for that next iphone.
Thanks for the free advertising, Samsung.
Thanks for the free advertising, Samsung.
I disagree. 4.7" is a pretty good compromise between the current 4" iphone and a 5" Android device. It's also a bigger jump when Apple went from 3.5" to 4". I use to have a 4.65" Verizon Nexus and the screen size was fine; it was the crappy pentile display that sucked.
I will be more disappointed if Apple goes with a display less than 1920x1080p. If HTC was able to do it in the first htc one from over a year ago Apple should be able to beat or exceed it. The Retina display when released meant something. Today it's been clearly surpassed.