Hmm, FaceTime release... "June 7, 2010"... Facetime with multiple people... "June 2018"....
Interesting...., right?
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Samsung Shares New 'Ingenius' Ads Pitting New Galaxy Note 9 Against iPhone X
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Interesting...., right?
WeChat, Facebook, WhatsApp already allow group video calling for up to 9, 6, and 4 people, respectively.
FaceTime for 32 people is just a "sure, but why?" feature. It feels like a high number Apple chose just because they were late to the game.
these spots are flawed at best.
like whoever walks into an apple store looking for a samsung product is the real idiot.
like whoever walks into an apple store looking for a samsung product is the real idiot.
they will, just like the larger screen sozes, woreless charging, fast charging, etc. widgets, pen support, etc will come.
they will take their time to perfect it, and to maximize profits. Apple has to stay north of 1T. Consumers can hold their horses, apple has them by the balls. Tim Cook is a freaking genius CEO.
How would anyone in their right mind argue that it couldn't be useful to have more than two people on a video chat? Nobody at Samsung uses conference calling for anything?
Get a Mac ads were at least clever generalizations... Hodgman gets sick because it has viruses, Apple is for creatives, etc. Not “ahem, *pushes up glasses* I’ll have you know that the Samsung Galaxy S9 camera scored a 99 on DxOMark compared to the iPhone X’s paltry 97”
Samsung was cute with the notch haircut and then they just completely gave up on being clever to make technical comparisons (all of which are cherry picked to make Samsung look good, and several of which don’t even make sense)
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Good point. Skype and Hangouts have had group face chats for ages so it's nothing new.
Okay but... who really gives a crap? Don’t use 32 if you don’t want to. How is having a higher limit available a negative?
I love the mocking ads. Samsung's marketing team is having a blast, I bet. Just like Apple with the switch and PC vs Mac ads back in the day. These are e pertaining. I doubt they're effective, though, but at least fun.
I love the users on these forums attacking the ads like their child was just made fun of even more. Now that's pure gold.
Get over it, guys. This is a marketing tactic. Textbook stuff. They probably got pitched 5 solid campaigns, and for this cycle, they decided to go with a direct attack. Every A vs B monoply does it at some point in their lifetimes. Even Apple.
Hell, Google is going after both MS and Apple in one spot lol. Love this stuff!
I love the users on these forums attacking the ads like their child was just made fun of even more. Now that's pure gold.
Get over it, guys. This is a marketing tactic. Textbook stuff. They probably got pitched 5 solid campaigns, and for this cycle, they decided to go with a direct attack. Every A vs B monoply does it at some point in their lifetimes. Even Apple.
Hell, Google is going after both MS and Apple in one spot lol. Love this stuff!
Samsung makes more iPhone ads than Apple does.
"Hello I am a Mac and I am a PC". That kind of lower road?
Samsung definitely has an inferiority complex vs Apple, but these ads are actually pretty funny.
Also, I've seen a few people posting benchmarks in the thread as a poke at Samsung and I just want to say, there's so little that separates all of the devices in this era of the smartphone, that these slight differences in benchmark scores are mostly negligible and a Note 9 running iOS would do it just as efficiently as the A11 Bionic chip does and the upcoming A12 chip.
Also, I've seen a few people posting benchmarks in the thread as a poke at Samsung and I just want to say, there's so little that separates all of the devices in this era of the smartphone, that these slight differences in benchmark scores are mostly negligible and a Note 9 running iOS would do it just as efficiently as the A11 Bionic chip does and the upcoming A12 chip.
That’s not fair to the millions and millions of dollars Apple has poured into R&D for their chips to set them apart from off the shelf varieties. Would a Snapdragon run iOS well? Most certainly, but I highly doubt they could compete toe to toe with a highly customized chip and come out equal.
Samsung is advertising special cooling for this phone and chip, which means it probably would run hot and throttle if stuck into an iPhone. Apple would rather focus on the chip itself and make sure it doesn’t need extra capabilities to not throttle (one of the things Apple focused on with the release of the A8).
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LMFAO! These are hilarious, my god Apple is getting ROASTED with these. I can't believe there are people (in this thread especially) that can't see the humour in these and just get all bitter about it.
Gotta atack number 1. You may not think they're affective, given you're obviously a tech enthusiast posting here, but they're not advertising to you but to your uneducated aquantaces.
I'm sure their Marketing department went to school. This is a textbook ad style. It may not work on you, but they'll reel some people in.
The stylus is useful for some demographics. The elderly, for example. Or my buddy who has early onset arthritis and has a hard time using touchscreens.
Doesn't matter if you have synthetic benchmarks of a super computer when it's still running a dumb OS that still doesn't allow placing app icons anywhere on home screen, can't swipe away and do something else during incoming call, doesn't have proper background multitasking, doesn't have VP9 (YouTube) hardware decoding, no split screen multitasking, no precision pen input, etc.
As if Qualcomm hasn't poured millions and millions into R&D for their own chips? The only difference here is Samsung is sourcing their silicon. I don't fully disagree with the statement, because I love Apple's hardware and software, but regardless of how much Apple has devoted to their R&D, the real-world use will vary very little from device-to-device this day regardless of OS. In the end, I'd take Apple's chip engineered in-house and optimized hand-in-hand with the software any day, but benchmarks are what they are, raw numbers. They are not indicative of the experience various users will have, and in 2018, the experiences will be mostly negligible.