I find Samsung spots funny or at least bit clever. However, it’s not like I will be replacing my iPhone X with Galaxy anytime soon... You see, in Android world it’s all pimps and prostitutes. I have no need to sell my self to every crappy company out there.
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Samsung Shares Three New Ads Making Fun of the iPhone X's Notch, Lack of SD Card Slot and No Split Screen Multitasking
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I find Samsung spots funny or at least bit clever. However, it’s not like I will be replacing my iPhone X with Galaxy anytime soon... You see, in Android world it’s all pimps and prostitutes. I have no need to sell my self to every crappy company out there.
I don't think the advert is supposed to be 100% true to life. Even in real life the retail employees never try to upsell in Apple stores. They usually listen to what the customer is saying they want the device for and then make suggestions based on the needs of the customer. They don't do the hard sell and I've never seen them try and upsell for the sake of it.
Maybe it's because I already know what I want when i go in there and all they do is assist me with the purchase but I've never observed them trying to push devices on people.
However back to this add does it need to be 100% accurate. It's a fun little advert that pokes fun at Apple. Even as an Apple customer I can find it funny.
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As the ads have gone on I've grown to like the genius. He seems like a cool guy and he doesn't try and lie to the customers he tells the truth. Some of the customers are pretty insistent too but he never looses his cool.
Btw, Samsung new screens just got rated as unbreakable (not yet commercially available)
MacBook Pro keyboards just got condoms put on them because specs of dust were breaking keys and requiring 600 dollar repairs (for specs of dust!)
Who is innovating.... and condoms don’t sound like luxury... but you sure pay luxury price!
If they remove the jack, then it would be because they offered a Bluetooth option at an equal value or near equal value of a wired set. Meaning, they didn't rush to remove it to make a quick buck from the consumer. They waited to do it right. They're always on the cutting edge of hardware, there's no debate about it. Apple and the rest of the industry wait for Samsung to do the heavy lifting of hardware innovation (memory, storage, displays, manufacturing process for CPUs, etc...) Just wait till Samsung move to MicroLED for mobile displays, as they already have industry first consumer MicroLED tvs for sale. How long will it take for the rest of the industry to follow?
Step 1 copy everything Apple does
Step 2 ridicule everything Apple does in adverts that are meant to generate sales of the phones that you built to copy everything Apple does
Step 3 play catch up forever
Step 2 ridicule everything Apple does in adverts that are meant to generate sales of the phones that you built to copy everything Apple does
Step 3 play catch up forever
Yes because of course their curved displays are copying apple and their multi window, always on display, variable aperture, DeX support to turn your phone into a desktop computer and VR headsets are all blatant copies of Apple.
I seriously question why statements like this are necessary. If you enjoy a Samsung, great. Knock yourself out; obviously many people agree with you. But trying to justify it by slamming Apple seems a tad petty, particularly as I doubt you work for Samsung’s marketing department. You have nothing to gain from engaging this way.
All of those came after Apple sued them for design infringement and won.
If any of those featured mattered sales wouldn be better.
Not to mention that Apple allowed for Windows installs on the Mac while still running those ads. The Mac vs PC ads never seemed snarky in the way these Samsung ones do. Perhaps the Samsung ads are intended to be akin to those Mac ads, but once again Samsung falls short there too.
Wow! You have a lot of time on your hands to write that novel. Plain and simply put, an SD card slot on an iPhone would be pretty nice.Pictures are compressed online via a setting in your phone. Roughly 500 pics doesn’t take up that much space.
Not make us spend more? LMAO!!
So let’s gather the history of smartphones and networks shall we.
WinCE, BlackBerry, PocketPC, Symbian (S60, UIQ, I cannot recall NTFoDoCoMo’s versión of Symbian, mobile Java used by Motorola’s early smartphones before the ROCKR) ... each used applications and many of those applications used data networks.
The early WinCE devices where PDAs. No wifi was implemented until PocketPC era. Symbian devices already where on smartphones and has full network bandwidth. These phones worked as modems for laptops IF you knew how to setup the data string
Ericsson has smartphones and partnered with Sony eventually. They also where KINGs in global mobile network equipment ... ever wonder why mobile network providers began offering faster bandwidth as a priority before voice capacity significantly improved back in GPRS/EDGE?! Yeah.
* Fun Fact: almost EVERY one of these old smartphones allowed and used mobile networks data BEFORE having WiFi chips implemented! WinCE devices like Cassiopeia/Jornada/etc had to use IrDA for data transmission of 9.6kbps which was 1/4th the GPRS network speeds of the time.
Which now we can look at LTE and upcoming 5G and iOS and Android.
- Apple partnered with Cingular (the new AT&T) in 2007 with executives NOT ever seeing the phone until very close to launch. Ever wonder why the executives conceded control for the first time?!
^ this was due to the promise of HUGE netoekrk reliance for Email, surfing (btw Apple was NOT the first with a WebKit based browser on the market. Yes they created it with Google but it was Nokia N80 but no N. Americ carrier carried it. At this time Cingular has EDGE data speeds of 384kbps and costs where a LOT higher.
- Nokia with TMobile USA launched the N-Gage and N-Gage QD for youth or mobile gamers on an incredible unlimited data plan of 9.99/mth! The network was geared so that MMS + game data was unlimited through their GGSN yet browsing or S60 app data was billed separately. This didn’t get much marketing push and well didn’t sell too well but also since Nokia failed to secure the games on MMC cards and well programmers leaked all the Capcom, Sega, etc game titles for free and worked perfectly on Nokia’s 6620 which provides faster speeds and a normal looking phone vs “Taco phone”.
BlackBerry OS devices comoressed data significantly. This didn’t give networks the expanded revenue stream they required to improve their networks.
- iPhone OG and 3G both didn’t have WiFi.
- App Store debuted with the 3G. Guaranteeing AT&T perfect revenue streams due to high demanding data. Add roaming fun to this too
- Android also debuts consuming network data even though their first device did have Wi-Fi.
So I ask you, why are networks increasing network data every 3-4yrs and yet no significant price reductions on data? Why is there limited offers of pure and real unlimited data by all networks? Why the push from all manuals threes to o my create smartphones and barely any “feature” or basic phones in the last few years?!!
Hint: it’s ALL done to get YOU, ME, THEM, and THEY to spend MORE! Not to save you money! Lol.
Obviously these features don’t matter to the general public because thwu
I’m sure the iPhone 3G had WiFi.Pictures are compressed online via a setting in your phone. Roughly 500 pics doesn’t take up that much space.
Not make us spend more? LMAO!!
So let’s gather the history of smartphones and networks shall we.
WinCE, BlackBerry, PocketPC, Symbian (S60, UIQ, I cannot recall NTFoDoCoMo’s versión of Symbian, mobile Java used by Motorola’s early smartphones before the ROCKR) ... each used applications and many of those applications used data networks.
The early WinCE devices where PDAs. No wifi was implemented until PocketPC era. Symbian devices already where on smartphones and has full network bandwidth. These phones worked as modems for laptops IF you knew how to setup the data string
Ericsson has smartphones and partnered with Sony eventually. They also where KINGs in global mobile network equipment ... ever wonder why mobile network providers began offering faster bandwidth as a priority before voice capacity significantly improved back in GPRS/EDGE?! Yeah.
* Fun Fact: almost EVERY one of these old smartphones allowed and used mobile networks data BEFORE having WiFi chips implemented! WinCE devices like Cassiopeia/Jornada/etc had to use IrDA for data transmission of 9.6kbps which was 1/4th the GPRS network speeds of the time.
Which now we can look at LTE and upcoming 5G and iOS and Android.
- Apple partnered with Cingular (the new AT&T) in 2007 with executives NOT ever seeing the phone until very close to launch. Ever wonder why the executives conceded control for the first time?!
^ this was due to the promise of HUGE netoekrk reliance for Email, surfing (btw Apple was NOT the first with a WebKit based browser on the market. Yes they created it with Google but it was Nokia N80 but no N. Americ carrier carried it. At this time Cingular has EDGE data speeds of 384kbps and costs where a LOT higher.
- Nokia with TMobile USA launched the N-Gage and N-Gage QD for youth or mobile gamers on an incredible unlimited data plan of 9.99/mth! The network was geared so that MMS + game data was unlimited through their GGSN yet browsing or S60 app data was billed separately. This didn’t get much marketing push and well didn’t sell too well but also since Nokia failed to secure the games on MMC cards and well programmers leaked all the Capcom, Sega, etc game titles for free and worked perfectly on Nokia’s 6620 which provides faster speeds and a normal looking phone vs “Taco phone”.
BlackBerry OS devices comoressed data significantly. This didn’t give networks the expanded revenue stream they required to improve their networks.
- iPhone OG and 3G both didn’t have WiFi.
- App Store debuted with the 3G. Guaranteeing AT&T perfect revenue streams due to high demanding data. Add roaming fun to this too
- Android also debuts consuming network data even though their first device did have Wi-Fi.
So I ask you, why are networks increasing network data every 3-4yrs and yet no significant price reductions on data? Why is there limited offers of pure and real unlimited data by all networks? Why the push from all manuals threes to o my create smartphones and barely any “feature” or basic phones in the last few years?!!
Hint: it’s ALL done to get YOU, ME, THEM, and THEY to spend MORE! Not to save you money! Lol.
Phone never had an sd slot never will.
All these ads show are Samsung S9 customers switching to the iPhone. Which is really weird.
If those features don’t matter to the general public than what’s the point?
I don't understand the point you are trying to make. How does the lack of 1tb SD cards affect the usefulness of Micro SD storage in phones?
if companies dont push wireless then why will anyone invest in wireless ? Apple offered airpods and pushed the standard waay up and samsung has roots in soo many industries it can't develop its own RnD
Apple waits for tech to be stable and then polishes it through its own RnD
Apple is considered to be in the cutting edge of hardware not samsung
face id ,touch id ,multi touch panel, antenna bands,THE cleanest internals. all apple
samsung has more features which some times conflict each other
like having fingerprint sensor in the back so that you have to pick up the phone while wireless charging, having 3 different way to unlock your phone but needs password to sign in to accounts while apple has face id to sign in, purchase, send money, and unlock all in one.
even tho samsung packs more options into their phones most of them contradict each other while some are not polished like the face unlock doesnt work at night for that you have to use iris scanner, iris scanner doesnt work when far than 8 inches
Years ago, Coke found itself in a similar position as Apple, with comparison ads coming from Pepsi and others. I remember an old Coke commercial (featuring, by the way, a now disgraced comedian) addressing said competitors, holding up a Coke and saying to the camera, "you know what you want to be when you grow up."
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It's interesting, when Apple did their Mac vs. PC ads, to highlight the differences between the systems in an anthropomorphic way, they made PC (John Hodgman) - their competition - eminently likable, while showing Apple's way to be better. The ads were entertaining. Samsung misses the mark.
I presume these ads have only just aired so I presume the number of people who post in this forum who have bought a phone since they aired will be very close to zero. iPhone users who post here are also unlikely to buy a Samsung phone full stop. Even the rumoured Galaxy S10, which is touted to have an underscreen fingerprint sensor (lower third of screen) and new GPU that will be incredibly fast.
These ads are directed at the general population who most won't even know about the notch etc.
You don't need a password to sign into accounts. Samsung have a password manager and you can use your iris or fingerprint to sign in. Likewise you can use your fingerprint or iris to authenticate samsung pay.
Samsung have now combined iris scanning and face unlock into intelligent scan. It works in the dark.
It's about giving options. Some people still want a FPS which is why it's still there. If you find having a FPS on the back not helpful then you have intelligent scan.
Face ID and touch ID were purchased. Smaller companies developed the tech and apple bought the companies and then put it into their phones. They didn't develop it from scratch in house.
Most of the Android OEM's are trying to pursue a FPS under the display.
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It's a small world this shill lives in and apples are the only thing that grows.
Like a stylus for Note tablet (or in my case I had note 10.1 phone capable tablet (over GSM network) working with my smartwatch and bt-headset). There is lots of things that Samsung innovates and do first. Apple is always waiting, waiting and waiting and then, if, they finally do something others had years ago and it is amazing, because apple did it and better. Oh wait, but those others introduced those years ago with the technology of that age. Where is apple and their innovations? More emojis for kids? Siri making jokes? Or just introducing more thinner chassis...
Did you forget the Newton?
Stylus are not a new concept to Apple.
It’s 2018 who cares about android tablets.
It's amazing becuase apple did it right or the other company only did it first because they heard that Apple were going to do it so rushed their version out first to beat Apple.
You'd think that none of these companies had an original thought in their heads the way its told on here.