I looked at his post history. His posts are actually pretty boring. He just says the same thing over and over lol.
I was being sarcastic.
I looked at his post history. His posts are actually pretty boring. He just says the same thing over and over lol.
I was being sarcastic.
Samsung: look at you idiots waiting in line like idiots. Oh man you idiots are using those low resolution tablets at the spa?? Wow you idiots are wall huggers!! Hey how come you idiots don't want our big screens, we've had them for two yrs
No wonder Samsung is losing sales and profits rapidly. This marketing campaign makes no sense.
They're comparing themselves to the strongest competitor. I don't see how this makes them weak any more than the Mac vs PC ads showed that Apple was weak. :|
It's funny no one likes these ads. I think they're not that different from the Mac vs. PC ads..
I looked at his post history. His posts are actually pretty boring. He just says the same thing over and over lol.
The difference is that when Apple ran the Mac vs. PC ads, the PC deserved all of it. The ads cut right to the core of everything that was wrong with PC. And the PC audience was fed up with their PC's. The Samsung ads are trying to do the same thing, but instead they are doing it to an established, successful, and fantastic product. And Apple customers are very satisfied and happy according to survey after survey.
So while the Mac vs. PC ads got people to lose their fear of trying something different, Samsung ads come off as coming from a scared competitor willing to stretch the truth to prove a point that is not really there.
Samsung has not learned that rule number one in advertising is there has to be a basic ring of truth to what you are saying or you better find another way to say it.
You didn't look back far enough. I bring great humor and entertainment value to this forum. I come here to learn and also to have fun. It's amazing what a sense of humor can do.![]()
Barring maybe 1 Mac vs. PC ad, they didn't attack the users. They attacked personifications of the products. But more importantly, they tried to be funny. When they were, they worked, but when they weren't they were absolutely groan-worthy.
Samsung's ad attacks the users it wants to buy its products (something which worked a few years ago when anti-Apple folks were desperately looking for a reason to justify their purchases, when Android was terrible, but doesn't work as well today, because Android is good, if not, IMO as good as iOS, iPhone and the retail and app ecosystem Apple has).
Even worse, Samsung ads don't even try to be funny, and just go straight for smug, which is what the Mac vs. PC ads were at their worst.
Where did Samsung call users idiots? You are reading way too much into this. You sound like those PC people getting offended at the Mac vs. PC add. Sheesh!
No you're right, I like humor. And I didn't go very far back your history. The stuff I saw however was boring, and mostly a bunch of "when Apple does so and so, people here will love it"
They made fun of users who stand in lines, made fun of users with lower resolution tablets, and made fun of people who need to charge their phones. No they didn't actually call them idiots, but I'm not a big fan of being obtuse and pretending that they weren't insulting the users.
Has nothing to do with being offended, it's just a silly marketing strategy to spend two yrs bashing the users and then saying we've been here all along
It's funny no one likes these ads. I think they're not that different from the Mac vs. PC ads..
I still don't understand why anybody cares a whit.
I'm sure I'm missing something incredibly important....
No, I don't want one either...
The people who are offended by this are not going to switch to a Samsung phone whatever ad Samsung puts out. This is not who they are targeting. They are targeting the ones who are on the fence, not the ones who are entrenched.
I disagree, if an ad successfully makes a user of a product look stupid and I was following blindly like a good majority of the non tech population. Then I would avoid that product in fear of looking stupid. Nobody wants to look stupid or uneducated, and if samsung makes iPhone users feel stupid for using an iPhone, then I am sure some people will switch over in fear of being made fun of by there friends. Espically if they don't know specs and aren't techy, the only thing they have to go off of is what there friends say.
It's funny no one likes these ads. I think they're not that different from the Mac vs. PC ads..
The people who are offended by this are not going to switch to a Samsung phone whatever ad Samsung puts out. This is not who they are targeting. They are targeting the ones who are on the fence, not the ones who are entrenched.
And I bet he will be the first person to post "I told you so" when he sees someone post "... the greatest thing since sliced bread". He is clever, I will give me that.
I've never posted I told you so. No need to. I know what I read here.![]()
News flash Samsung: I don't want crappy Android software, or your terrible TouchWiz overlay.