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Samsung Mocks iPhone Fans in New Galaxy S II Ad

Swift said:
PC was the funny one, and it was "the PC" that was spoofed, not any person. The difference? PC was laughed at as a platform.

This is like the tiredness of our politics: Apple people (or in politics, Conservatives or Liberals or whatever) are insane cultists. Gee, they must be [insert social prejudice here].

It's not about the platform. It's about insulting users. But that seems to work on the Android side. This sounds like the usual from the Android claque.

You like it, go ahead. What Android people see is they're "open," though they're customers of the biggest software financial play by a mega-company ever. Lots of people prefer Android, whatever that is apart from supporting Flash.
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Not to mention the PC was actually kind of lovable in his bumbling failures. And the Mac wasn't lording over him but was kind of trying to help. Comparing these two ads is like comparing how a two year old would help someone vs an adult.

And yes, Lemmings was from Apple and they made a stupid mistake with that ad (1984 was more about how IBM was all controlling and they were trying to free people from them/not mocking PC users).

Characterizing the users for perceived failures of a platform or company is not a great way to advertise your alternative. Nothing to do with being offended.
 
marksman said:
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Wow you get to choose from multiple crappy App stores.

No serious person would use an android handset. It simply offers a tiny fraction of the functionality of other platforms.
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I'm stunned that people can be so....brainwashed.
 
Anyone else notice that the screen at 0.40 has the OSX wallpaper.. The old one.. Why would you use a pic that basically says "last year".

So ya, funny add but without iOS the phone is like a cool looking muscle car with a very tiny engine.
 
Cheesy commercial but also funny at the same time. I believe the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads were much cheesier though.
 
I don't think that the ad is trying to switch iPhone users to Galaxy. The iPhone has a 90%+ satisfaction rating and many iPhone users are still locked under contracts.

The ad is targeting new customers that going into the smartphone market that can be swayed.... It's saying 'don't wait in line & our product is better'. It's trying painting Apple users negatively so that potential new smartphone buyers don't go that route.

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Gasu E. said:
Apple loyalists are not the target. The goal is to attack iPhone popularity as irrational, in order to convince non-Apple owners not to be swayed by aforementioned popularity.
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Yeah, I agree, i think it looks more like they're trying to solidify themselves as the leading apple-alternative for those already in the 'anti-apple' crowd, more so than trying to convert the 'loyalists'.
 
Doc750 said:
everything in that commercial was one hundred percent accurate.

bigger screen ................... check
4 G ................................ check
Iphone looks exactly the same as old one ... check
Don't have to wait in line ... check


you really are a fanboy to stick with apple on this.
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Except there are some problems with that:

bigger screen, yea but there are limits to what weight and bump I want to have in my pocket. I have a tablet for everything else.

4G - nope, read up on what 4G actually specifies as. That is a vague term and in reality, the network speeds are exactly the same on the max side provided by carriers.

Same design - yes and that is in the eye of the beholder if that is good or bad. It is still the slimmest.

Don't have to wait in line - true for both since you could preorder on at least 3 carrier pages in the US. By the way, my wife had to come back for her Android because they were out at the local store - so don't tell me that Androids are always available. After 2 months, she is switching to iPhone now. (No, it was not my influence. Her parents decided on buying out of contract and she remains on the family plan and she wants a handpiece not crashing once a week. :D)
 
bushido said:
those fanboys / idiots waiting in line clearly showed the posh behavior of many apple customers, u cant deny that.
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You never waited in a concert line? OR a movie line? OR a college line? OR any kind of a queue?

It's not about the line. It's about the priority because iPhones get sold out in just a day. It's just the first come first serve concept that applies to some great restaurants around the world or some burger stalls in roadside nooks.

Everyone is an idiot that waits in line for an iPhone? Right.
 
This commercial doesn't really do anything but piss off Apple buyers. If Apple disappeared from the planet tomorrow, I'm pretty sure I still wouldn't buy anything that had a Samsung name on it.

The last phone I had that I really liked was a Sony/Ericsson. I'd probably buy something they made.
 
paul4339 said:
I don't think that the ad is trying to switch iPhone users to Galaxy. The iPhone has a 90%+ satisfaction rating and many iPhone users are still locked under contracts.

The ad is targeting new customers that going into the smartphone market that can be swayed.... It's saying 'don't wait in line & our product is better'. It's trying painting Apple users negatively so that potential new smartphone buyers don't go that route.

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Best of luck to them. That strategy has worked great for the also-rans so far, right?

But of course, Siri comes with an Apple logo attached to it.

There's no un-ringing the Apple bell.
 
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WeegieMac said:
By "mocking" a rival product for the duration of the commercial, and failing to fully showcase the design and features of your own product, you show the customer that you're more afraid of Apple and envious of it's customer base, than you are confident in your own product.
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This is really becoming a trend in Android ads lately too.

Take the new commercial they have with the motorcycles, explosions and chases through San Francisco (get it?) for the Droid RAZR. They didn't show the phone for more than a second or so in the initial ad and even then it's obscured with blades and fancy gimmicks.

They don't trust the product to sell itself, instead they always resort to heavy CGI and action scenes with scantily clad female robots fighting über-orcs in the distant future. I mean, granted, that stuff is cool, but I fail to see what it has to do with a phone.
 
kbmb said:
I'm waiting for the extended edition of the ad....where after seeing the Galaxy S II, the people in line look again and the person on the bench has another new phone.

"Why another new phone?"

"Oh, because the Galaxy S II is already out of date...I need the latest! There's a new Android phone every day and a half.....IT'S GREAT!!!"

-Kevin
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Android phones don't really become obsolete any faster than iPhones. You have to buy the new iPhone each release to take advantage of the new features (Siri only on the 4s (for no real "technical" reason)). So while I know what you're saying, the same holds true for Apple.
 
Pretty funny. I just hope they didn't spend too much on it. Yea they talk about the bigger screen and 4g, but they spend most of the time poking fun at Apple fans. Not sure what they hope to gain by that. But yea, still pretty funny.
 
I waited in line for the first iPhone in 2007, and that's it. By no means am I a fanboy. I'm still running an old 3GS on AT&T Pay as you go, for chrissakes.

Doesn't matter what anybody says, this ad is funny and super accurate. We all know somebody like those in line in this ad, they are EVERYwhere.

The only reason you'd think this isn't funny, is because for most of you, that somebody is you. And the truth hurts.
 
What Samsung's ad really said...

"Hey guys! Looky here! A Samjunk Galaxy SII that nobody wants to buy is now sitting on store shelves collecting dust. Instead of waiting in line for the world's hottest phone, why don't you give our Samjunk phone a try. It's available right now so you can get it in your hands this minute since no one's getting it."

Very smart move, Samsung! You just give the iPhone more attention while calling into attention your inability to sell your product.

I actually owned the Epic 4G (Their original Galaxy S phone) and I hated it. 8 months into my contract, I cancelled it to get an iPhone 4S. Never looked back!

So what about the battery life? It has about ONE day of normal usage with wifi, 4G, notifications, GPS, and anything that is not 3G or cellular turned off. With all that, I got 24 hours of battery life. I can't say that even allows me to use my phone normally.

On the other hand, right now, my iPhone 4S has ~1/4 battery left.. a little more at 27% to be exact. 3 days, 4 hours standby and 2 hours 41 minutes of usage since last full charge. Who's got a battery life problem? Oh yeah... the Samjunk, of course!

I'd say those who work for Samsung's publicity department has no experience whatsoever with their product. They must be using iPhones or windows phones to not know that android phones drain batteries like crazy. Maybe they weren't even using smartphones at all.. maybe they're using dumb phones that reflect their intelligence.

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zaphon said:
Android phones don't really become obsolete any faster than iPhones. You have to buy the new iPhone each release to take advantage of the new features (Siri only on the 4s (for no real "technical" reason)). So while I know what you're saying, the same holds true for Apple.
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Android phones are outdated the day they're released. iPhones are not outdated until another iPhone is released... which is an entire year. In the iPhone 4's case, it lasted 16 months! Even being outdated for over 2 years, the 3GS is still selling like hot cakes. You cannot say the same thing about an android phone. Look how quickly the android phones reach their EOL.
 
firesuite said:
I waited in line for the first iPhone in 2007, and that's it. By no means am I a fanboy. I'm still running an old 3GS on AT&T Pay as you go, for chrissakes.

Doesn't matter what anybody says, this ad is funny and super accurate. We all know somebody like those in line in this ad, they are EVERYwhere.

The only reason you'd think this isn't funny, is because for most of you, that somebody is you. And the truth hurts.
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So if someone insulted someone you liked, and you didn't think it was funny, that would be because it's true?

I don't think it's funny, because it's weak.
 
Really? Who still stands in line for anything now a days - especially in 2011? We have pre-orders on the Internet now a days.

Oh and to make it more unreal they made an Indian guy stand in line for the ad - like that happens all time. I never saw any Indian guy in line for an iPhone!

Other than that the ad was ok - Samsung knows they can't convert over iPhone fans so they were just trying to make their Android user base feel better about themselves.
 
I could definitely see how some people would get offended by this, but frankly I thought it was a funny (and pretty accurate) ad-especially the "I'm creative" line. Perfectly capturing I'm-too-good-for-that college hipsters.
 
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