And I thought Apple fans buy iPhones to show them how a league apart they are from the common man. Numerous posts on this web site has pointed in the direction that poor people buy Android.
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Samsung Mocks iPhone's Camera, Lack of Headphone Jack, and More in Latest Galaxy S9 Ads
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True, because in Apple world replacing a defective part with another defective part 2-3 years after the product started having problems is considered a good service.
I think this is fair. It just goes to show you that both Samsung and Apple have their own various types of marketing. Samsung being _very_ aggressive as of late with the iPhone and other intricacies about The throttling, water resistance and 3.5 Jack. Apple places a-lot of emphasis with the iPhone in terms of how good the camera is, augmented reality, Animoji’s, Face ID, ect.
I have said it before, in the end, the user chooses the ecosystem in terms of what they want from the operating platform, either android or iOS. Hardware is superficial that eventually wears off.
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Exactly. At the time, Apple's market share hardly showed up on a pie chart. And, to Apple's credit, at least those ads were actually funny and explicitly showcased the benefits of the "Mac" alongside the competitor. REAL benefits, too, like a system that isn't nearly as virus-prone, and no blue screen of death. Comparing those two sets of ads on anything but surface-level is silly.
These Samsung ads are just nauseating. I do not care about fast charging because I am never running out of battery, even as a power user (thank you iPhoneX), I haven't used wired headphones with my phone in years, and the camera score is 97 vs. 99... Seriously. Thank you for the definition of asinine, Samsung.
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The only difference is that those were Apple making fun of competition, and these are competition making fun of Apple which is why most of people here don't see them as same
The first two ads are factual while the 3rd made me LOL.
Somewhere out there someone will say dongles are a good thing since it's more profitable.
Somewhere out there someone will say dongles are a good thing since it's more profitable.
Nope. Have you seen the Mac vs PC ads? Perhaps you need to head to Youtube to refresh your memory. There was plenty of PC bashing going on.
Come on what? Include a 3.5mm so U can plug your headphones without paying royalties for their lightning connector, including a "free" fast charger with a $1k phone? Are you crazy?
Lol. Much like Apple did with their butterfly keyboards, sneakily installing software to slow down iphones etc etc
Selective memory much?
These are hysterical. Of course not really fair as these things are all very trivial differences (except for the headphone jack, you will need a dongle). But the cameras are both great and basically equally good. The fast charging is meaningless as the X has great battery life and charges plenty fast.
Oh here we go again with the “sooo it’s ok when Apple does it?” snark.
Firstly, Apple was truly the underdog when those ads launched. They had single digit market share in their primary product line. There’s a reason why these ads were retired when they did. Because Apple was no longer the underdog.
Secondly, those ads were much more playful and tastefully done. The competitor (PC) was actually the loveable and memorable character. There’s a reason this campaign won numerous awards. Because execution matters more than anything.
Samsung’s ads on the other hand are not tasteful, not playful, and Samsung is in no way shape or form the underdog. Depending on who you ask, they are actually the handset market LEADER. These ads just come off bitter, obnoxious, smug, and aggressive. Like they have a personal axe to grind with Apple and anyone who dare use Apple products (despite their obvious obsession with Apple).
Mac/PC were like the odd couple. While Samsung’s ads are just internet trolling in the form of advertising. Kind of like the Sega campaigns against Nintendo, it just breeds tribalism and divisiveness.
It’s a really tacky look for Samsung.
If you really believe that the quality of a phone is purely inversely proportional to the thickness of its bezels, please, please go and get yourself a bezel-free phone and have yourself a good ol’ time.
I personally don’t care about the headphone jack but there have been posters on this forum who said they either switched to android because of the headphone jack or are holding onto older iPhones and refusing to upgrade.
Samsung is running out of ideas. They shouldn’t be concerned of iPhones, they should be concerned the Chinese eating their market share from the bottom.
Samsung is so clueless that they are going back into their old strategy of releasing tons of models to the market.
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180718VL200.html
Samsung is so clueless that they are going back into their old strategy of releasing tons of models to the market.
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180718VL200.html
If you don't need it that's fine, but plenty of people do. How is including a headphone jack impacting you negatively?
How is it not? Spending $1k on a phone and not including a fast charger is pretty bad.
Actually your analogy would be if Google and Samsung were sparing over phones; Apple would be Honda in that story, dropping in with a composite bed, blowing them both away.
Valid points. If you deny these arguments, Steve Jobs has done his job.