The difference is Samsung was mocking and denigrating Apple, while Apple was gently teasing, at most. The interplay between the two actors made it a far more friendly interaction, like Apple was the cool, smart kid trying to look out for his nerdy best friend. Samsung's ads are like the cool kids putting the nerdy kid's head in the toilet...it's a far different attitude, and why the Mac vs. PC ads were liked even by PC people (at least the ones that could take a joke).
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Samsung Removes Ad Mocking iPhone's Lack of Headphone Jack After Following Suit With Galaxy Note 10
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The difference is Samsung was mocking and denigrating Apple, while Apple was gently teasing, at most. The interplay between the two actors made it a far more friendly interaction, like Apple was the cool, smart kid trying to look out for his nerdy best friend. Samsung's ads are like the cool kids putting the nerdy kid's head in the toilet...it's a far different attitude, and why the Mac vs. PC ads were liked even by PC people (at least the ones that could take a joke).
i hate this argument, it’s such a dumb one.
the Mac vs pc ads showed what the Mac did better than a pc, as much as it bashed pc, they advertised Mac features more. Way better and more ethical than Samsung’s useless attack ads that don’t even tell you why you should buy a galaxy...
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Selling AirPods was not the main reason.... the headphone jack was on the way out, I hadn’t used one on my phone for about 5 years now. Is it still a useful port? Yea sure but. It’s not a “user unfriendly move” I’ve spent more time untangling headphone wires than I have waiting for a dead bt earbuds to charge when I want to use them
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Because it’s not needed anymore?
I and many others switched to Bluetooth years ago, before the headphone jack was removed. It was on the way out, it was a port that has alternatives that used space in an already cramped device
I love the Apple community's obsession with bringing up Henry Ford as if he's a shining example of knowing what a customer wants vs what they need. The same community forgets that he was also the arrogant prick who said customers can have any colour Ford they want, as long as it's black.
Who said anything about Henry Ford.....
The comment was about cars replacing horses as the main mode of transportation. Stop pulling at straws and moving goalposts
Well said! Tomorrow I have to quietly reinstall a program into production without the bug I introduced two weeks ago. I’m still trying to arrive at the perfect appropriately vague verbiage to explain it.
So, you’re a music producer who make a living out of iphone and headphone jack. I wonder why those singers stop using wire microphones and headphones... they must be amateurs then.
All jokes aside, headphone jack is quite obsolete in consumer smartphones. It needs to be replaced. Multi-billion dollars Companies are not dumb, if they’re up to something, they must have market research data to back it up.
If you’re not happy with a particular product, that means you’re not their target market.
The point I think you were trying to argue is Apple made fun of Microsoft and then adopted the thing they made fun of?
These are terrible examples with which to make your point. At what point did Apple copy Vista? Even MS moved away from it as quickly as possible.
If you make your living off audio, you aren't using a phone for it.
So they used childish middle schooler bullying tactics to promote an ad about growing up...Samsung the one that has some growing to do I guess:/
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To be fair whether you're editing video or mixing a song, you always end up testing it on the ol' car speakers or phone at the end. Gotta check for lost common denominator before releasing cuz that's where it'll be seen the most. Least that's how everyone I know does it. (at least for work below blockbuster Hollywood level production)
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To be fair whether you're editing video or mixing a song, you always end up testing it on the ol' car speakers or phone at the end. Gotta check for lost common denominator before releasing cuz that's where it'll be seen the most. Least that's how everyone I know does it. (at least for work below blockbuster Hollywood level production)
That's a good question alright! One could speculate that removing the jack makes people start looking at wireless headphones, which means more profits. One could also speculate that wireless headphones last less, but I don't think there's real evidence to suggest that. Wires possibly get ripped more often than batteries die in a wireless earphone. Producing unnecessarily slim devices with waterproof features seems to be a trend, but a jack really isn't that thick, and people really don't care about an extra mm or two. Yeah man, I don't know...
You can’t use ‘crap’. That’s already reserved for (c)rap music.Witty and original, I like! Almost as catchy as Crapple
Because it isn't bad. You just personally don't like it initially.It's still beyond me why these companies choose to copycat even the worst of Apple's decisions
There are a lot of technological advances, upgrades, and removals that nobody asked for... and/or people did not know they wanted but most of the time people embrace them and move on. For example I live in NYC and take the subway... I see thousands of commuters every day and I could probably count on one hand the number of wired headphones I see. Most people are using bluetooth headphones at this point.
Maybe because it’s not such a bad decisionIt's still beyond me why these companies choose to copycat even the worst of Apple's decisions
Well i was going purely off memory and everyone here seems to loose their mind if things aren't 100% accurate, hence why I said that...
Here you go, this is what I was referring to
https://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/jobs-no-ones-going-to-buy-a-big-phone/
