Look at the way these ads are being shared on Reddit, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac.
YouTube is only the channel. The above mentioned sites are the vehicles. These ads are very effective given the low production and media buy costs.
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Samsung Shares New 'Ingenius' Ads Pitting New Galaxy Note 9 Against iPhone X
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Look at the way these ads are being shared on Reddit, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac.
YouTube is only the channel. The above mentioned sites are the vehicles. These ads are very effective given the low production and media buy costs.
Why would Samsung produce an expensive ad practically showcasing the iPhone and not their own product? What's the upshot?
Do you really think this ad has high production costs? There is no media buy cost. MacRumors is sharing the ad for free on behalf of Samsung.
The only audience these ads might work on are current Galaxy owners who are debating whether they should switch to Apple. The idea is to convince them that Apple users are "sheep" and "idiots", and that they should be like the skeptical customers in the ads.
In other words, the ads are to stem the bleeding of customers from Samsung to Apple. At least that's how it looks to me. It sure as heck isn't going to lure many from Apple back to Samsung.
In other words, the ads are to stem the bleeding of customers from Samsung to Apple. At least that's how it looks to me. It sure as heck isn't going to lure many from Apple back to Samsung.
They are only effective if they generate actual sales. Which I really doubt they will.
I think you’re missing @bbednarz point, Samsung’s marketing might be aggressive on purpose, but in the same respect, they still are emphasizing the iPhone, which is still marketing the iPhone one way or the other. The consumer just needs to make the decision if the marketing actually influences them to buy the marketing.
Don't Samsung make more money from the components they sell to Apple for the iPhone, compared to the sales of their own full products?
Shamesung might want to be careful with how much fun they poke at the iPhone, as one day Apple might make their own commercial and point out how insecure Android is, and how many viruses there are, and how the reliability and security of facial recognition on the iPhone is years ahead of Android, or how the year old CPU/GPU in the iPhone is much faster than their brand new flagship, and how iPhone has some cool stuff like ARkit that is significantly more advanced than Android, or...
I get what you're saying. I really do. The trouble is, the people seeing these adverts via these websites are probably already majority invested in one product or another. I won't be leaving my perfectly decent iPhone or MacBook Pro because of this. They are vaguely amusing in a sense that they go no way in actually promoting their own brand. More power to them if it works. That's all I can say.
"You know what I think is really powerful? Being able to ground an entire aircraft"
Their low end devices yes. What they advertise, S9,S9+, and note 8? Not so much sorry.
LG and best Android phone in the same sentence... I'm as open minded as they come when it comes to using different devices from multiple manufacturers, but that is just a straight non truth.
LOL. When you post stats and disregard the last column.
What makes you think Apple Pencil will be iPhone compatible in the future? I don‘t see a point in being able to write/draw on a tiny display compared to iPads and I doubt Apple sees one either.
Edit: to add, Apple adopted the phablet form factor because the whole industry moved to bigger screens. They adopted dual-camera because it brought significant improvements (optical zoom, portrait photos) to one of iPhones biggest features. They adopted fast charging because it's an obvious improvement. They might adopt dual SIM (nothing official yet) because it's a feature that exists forever in the phone industry and is important to many international customers. I know people who have a Mac and were interested in an iPhone but ended up buying an Android phone because they needed dual SIM. Apple would be dumb to ignore those customers. Pen(cil) support on the other hand is an absolute niche and just because one phone of a competitor has a pen won't make Apple do the same.
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Seriously, how do they decide to go with "powerful" when a year older iPhone X spanks the brand new Note 9 in Geekbench?
Did not think that one through.
Did not think that one through.
"You know what's really powerful, photos in the cloud"
"Samsung does that, except it's not the cloud, and it's random contacts, behind your back, without you knowing about it"
"Samsung does that, except it's not the cloud, and it's random contacts, behind your back, without you knowing about it"
Just for the record, I do, and have always wanted a functioning stylus for both my iPhone and iPad. I started carrying some kind of organizer since the early Palm days and have sorely missed the accuracy and handwriting capabilites of a stylus on my Apple products and I hope some day Apple an finally nail it.
Finger is great, but there are quite a few things a stylus can do much better. I don't see the big deal of giving those that want it, the option of a stylus.
Most people don't because the phone wasn't designed for them. The super wide capacitive touch makes even the most sophisiticated stylii that weren't hardware-designed by apple to be equal to a finger which is pretty useless for tasks that require a stylus.
Haven’t watched it yet but I’m sure we are gonna have pages and pages of outraged iPhone users.
I'm not sure talking about the iPhone, even in a negative light, far more than your own product is a good marketing strategy.
Well Verizon is already offering a buy one get one free, for a promotional email this morning.
Maybe your phone is priced too high if to sell it on day one your also giving one away?
Maybe your phone is priced too high if to sell it on day one your also giving one away?