Samsung Shares Three New Ads Making Fun of the iPhone X's Notch, Lack of SD Card Slot and No Split Screen Multitasking

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Let me rephrase that: external physical storage is declining. Again, I’m not referring to the internal storage on a phone. SD cards are being used by less and less people today.

Of the general phone buying masses, if Apple offered a phone with SD card facility, how many would pay the extra £140 for the 256 GB version if they could turn a 64GB phone into a 320GB phone for half that cost? An SD card in a phone is internal storage.
Apple don't offer SD card use because they don't get the money for the storage.

 

[mrex]

Did you forget the Newton?
Stylus are not a new concept to Apple.

It’s 2018 who cares about android tablets.

all I can say more is LOL.

 

[FFR]

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.

You mean like how the dell streak 5 was the first phablet not the note like you claim.

 

[FFR]

all I can say more is LOL.

What so Apple never had a stylus before the note?

 

[Abazigal]

people don't choose android? Have you used a top end android device? They are really good these days. And you know around the world most have chosen Andriod, including the tech community. Most of the tech users (really tech, not fashionistas) are not choosing Apple. Just ask Siri to look up some stats. O WAIT, you can't. Maybe on Homepod, sorry.....

I think Scott Galloway put it nicely, Apple sells status. And this is my problem as before when Steve was running the show, Apple was an amazing tech company. Tim and Angela have turned it to a luxury fashion company, and tech (both hardward and software) has suffered greatly. Again, ask siri for stats..no it won't

So I agree, Apple is luxury, super profitable, but don't be delusion if you think you are paying for quality or advanced tech. You are paying for status, security, and a closed system with limited capabilities. And MOST of the world doesn't use imessages, maps, or siri either. I hear Jonny is designing the iSlate, the most luxury polished metal in the world. Doesn't do anything, but you pay lots. And if you want to show it to people, you need a dongle. Share value will go crazy!

Or maybe the Apple critics simply don’t understand what makes Apple tick, and so simply choose to dismiss what they don’t comprehend. It’s not that Apple genuinely makes good products that people are willing to pay a premium for because it meets their needs. No, if I buy a product you don’t like, it has to me who is at fault. I am the sheep who has been hoodwinked. And apparently my own positive experiences with the platforms don’t amount to anything in the light of your “superior logic”.

 

[Sevanw]

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

I'm never shocked at what comes out of the mouths of Apple diehards in regards to Samsung, even this ignorant post. Smh.

 

[iapplelove]

Are you serious? There is a HUGE difference. Those Apple ads were brilliant, funny, and artful. They won tons of awards and the campaign as a whole was voted to be the best of the decade.

And if you were actually paying attention, you'd have noticed that the PC guy was actually the more likable guy in the ads! He was the guy the audience liked and had empathy for. It was a completely different tone and approach than the annoying, mocking, obnoxious-little-brother approach of Samsung toward Apple. The two campaigns and approaches are very, very different.

lol are you serious? Just cause the Apple adds were better doesn’t make them different. Damn...

I payed close attention thanks!

Marketing 101 you fail.

 

[himanshumodi]

You’d loose that bet next month since the Galaxy Note 9 will debut; not featuring a notch. I’ll take your lunch money

Of course you meant the next Galaxy S models. I hope Samsung doesn’t feature the notch. It’ll either a) show customers that a dropped phone will have a damaged front facing camera or eventually convince the competition not to have a notch in 2019 models yet to be released.

Commercial 2:
You want an SD card in your phone since you don’t want pictures in the cloud?!

- is it because you don’t trust Androids privacy statement and practices, then why are you buying android??! Lol
- drop and stomp the hell out of the android users phone.
> oh you SD card is broken and all the pictures you have are orphaned on that card, no backups? Lol that’s why cloud exists silly rabbit!!
That’s my commercial.

That's a neat commercial idea, if Apple were into that kind of a thing. The iCloud implementation on iPhone for photo syncing is pretty neat in my view. I have a measly 32 gb phone. And it's super-convenient that my photos are always on the cloud without me having to upload them, or have to download them if I want to email or send over whatsapp or something. Is it as seamless on Android?

 

[Shanghaichica]

That's a neat commercial idea, if Apple were into that kind of a thing. The iCloud implementation on iPhone for photo syncing is pretty neat in my view. I have a measly 32 gb phone. And it's super-convenient that my photos are always on the cloud without me having to upload them, or have to download them if I want to email or send over whatsapp or something. Is it as seamless on Android?

On android your photos can be backed up to google photos in the same way as they are backed up to iCloud photos. You just turn the setting on and then they upload in the background without you having to do anything. It’s free you don’t have to pay for storage space.

When you want to share a photo you hit the share button in the Google photo app and you can share it via any messaging app you have installed on your phone or via email. The sharing options on android are more extensive than on iOS.

 

[mrex]

That's a neat commercial idea, if Apple were into that kind of a thing. The iCloud implementation on iPhone for photo syncing is pretty neat in my view. I have a measly 32 gb phone. And it's super-convenient that my photos are always on the cloud without me having to upload them, or have to download them if I want to email or send over whatsapp or something. Is it as seamless on Android?

I have iPhone, iPad air2, iPad Pro and MacBook which I use on everyday. Couple days ago my iCloud was full (no, idont pay or plan to pay for getting bigger than 5gb iCloud which is ridiculous small) and I decided to delete couple of hundreds of photos and few videos from my iPhone to get rid of the annoying "iCloud is full, manage your iCloud... blablabla" every time I picked up my iPad Pro. And it took over the night to get my iPad Pro realising that I have deleted bunch of photos and videos and have over a gig free space on iCloud. There wasn't anything I could do with the iPad Pro to speed up the process. Then I went to internet to check if the iCloud is down or so and found many message during the past years which guides you to "let your device be over the night and they should be synced together". What? Over a night? What a crap! iCloud is always been pain-in-the-ass and it still is. When im using windows pc and icloud - syncing again - it never had worked well. I have never seen so slow working cloud - It doesnt matter if you are using wifi or data. If I need a cloud I prefer using Google (drive for example) or my own NAS and both are working perfectly what ever device I have on my hands.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I have iPhone, iPad air2, iPad Pro and MacBook which I use on everyday. Couple days ago my iCloud was full (no, idont pay or plan to pay for getting bigger than 5gb iCloud which is ridiculous small) and I decided to delete couple of hundreds of photos and few videos from my iPhone to get rid of the annoying "iCloud is full, manage your iCloud... blablabla" every time I picked up my iPad Pro. And it took over the night to get my iPad Pro realising that I have deleted bunch of photos and videos and have over a gig free space on iCloud. There wasn't anything I could do with the iPad Pro to speed up the process. Then I went to internet to check if the iCloud is down or so and found many message during the past years which guides you to "let your device be over the night and they should be synced together". What? Over a night? What a crap! iCloud is always been pain-in-the-ass and it still is. When im using windows pc and icloud - syncing again - it never had worked well. I have never seen so slow working cloud - It doesnt matter if you are using wifi or data. If I need a cloud I prefer using Google (drive for example) or my own NAS and both are working perfectly what ever device I have on my hands.

I do pay for iCloud storage space because I have lots of Apple devices like you but google photos is free. I also use google drive to backup my MacBook.

 

[ani4ani]

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?

The point I am making is that the claim is that SD cards are no use anymore and no one needs them. Furthermore the claim being made was no one wants internal memory either because that is “falling” and everyone will use the cloud.

I contest both of those claims in that if no one wants or needs SD cards why are manufacturers striving to make ever bigger ones and recently agreed the specs for up to 4 TB. Furthermore if you take Sandisk for example, this is still their biggest area of their business and is still growing rapidly. 74% of all phones sold last year had a means of adding portable memory (92% of non-iPhones), hardly the indication that no one wants or needs SD cards, or their perceived as not useful.

Then there was the claim that internal memory was falling in smartphones which again is just not correct, I.e we have gone from 8 GB iPhones only a few years ago to likely 512GB in the next generation.

People relying on the cloud is a lifetime away in my view and portable memory is definitely required and definitely useful

 

[Alfredo_Delgado]

This is where they overplay their hand. You know those features nobody gives a damn about? We've got 'em!

 

[mrex]

I do pay for iCloud storage space because I have lots of Apple devices like you but google photos is free. I also use google drive to backup my MacBook.

I don't pay for it because I mostly use NAS anyway and however, I refuge to pay for it because I feel it is a bit cheap from Apple offering only 5gigs per account even when you own several apple devices.

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

The point I am making is that the claim is that SD cards are no use anymore and no one needs them. Furthermore the claim being made was no one wants internal memory either because that is “falling” and everyone will use the cloud.

I contest both of those claims in that if no one wants or needs SD cards why are manufacturers striving to make ever bigger ones and recently agreed the specs for up to 4 TB. Furthermore if you take Sandisk for example, this is still their biggest area of their business and is still growing rapidly. 74% of all phones sold last year had a means of adding portable memory (92% of non-iPhones), hardly the indication that no one wants or needs SD cards, or their perceived as not useful.

Then there was the claim that internal memory was falling in smartphones which again is just not correct, I.e we have gone from 8 GB iPhones only a few years ago to likely 512GB in the next generation.

People relying on the cloud is a lifetime away in my view and portable memory is definitely required and definitely useful

Thanks for the clarification and you are correct I had picked up that you were being negative about SD storage.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Hateful company. Perfectly aligned with the modern generation of frothing, must-have-my-pointless-opinion-heard, Twitterised, crybabies. If I were a Samsung user I’d be ashamed to be associated with the brand.

 

[ph001bi]

Samsung this morning shared three new ads in its "Ingenius" series that's designed to make fun of the Apple Genius Bar while highlighting features that Samsung believes will lure people to its Galaxy S9 devices instead of one of Apple's iPhones.

The first ad makes fun of the notch on the iPhone X, with a customer who comes into the "Ingenius" bar asking the employee about the notch on the device, pointing out that it covers a portion of the display when watching a movie.

"It does still cover up some of the movie," says customer. "It takes time to get used to it," the employee responds before the ad cuts away to a family with notch-style haircuts.

While the Samsung Galaxy S9 has no notch, it does have top and bottom bezels, with the top bezel housing the camera, microphone, and ambient light sensor. Samsung has preferred to keep the two bezels rather than using the notch design that many Android smartphones have adopted from Apple.

In the second ad, "Storage," a customer asks the Ingenius Bar employee where the microSD slot is on the iPhone. "I can't find the microSD slot," she laments. "Yeah, that's because it doesn't have one," the employee replies. "Oh, Galaxy S9 has one," she responds before explaining that she doesn't want to store her content in the cloud.

In the third and final ad, a customer asks how to run two apps at once on the iPhone's display, something that's not possible. "I wanna know how to do the split screen because my sister was doing it on her Galaxy S9," she explains as the tech tells her that's not possible.

Multitasking on iOS devices is limited to the iPad, and while customers have asked for it to be ported to the larger screened phones, this is not something that Apple has implemented at the current time.

Samsung started sharing its new Ingenius ad campaign last week, in a video touting the Galaxy S9's faster LTE download speeds.

Samsung followed that initial ad with additional spots mocking the iPhone's lack of a headphone jack, the fact that it doesn't ship with the equipment necessary for fast charging, and that the iPhone received a lower DxOMark score than the Galaxy S9 for its camera capabilities.

Article Link: Samsung Shares Three New Ads Making Fun of the iPhone X's Notch, Lack of SD Card Slot and No Split Screen Multitasking

The notch is an alternative to the fingerprint reader in the back. Many users hate the fingerprint reader in the back.
SD Card reader? What’s the year 1995? Again this might have been nice a decade or two ago but today, user don’t want to muck around with different formats, varying speed, and moving parts.
Multitasking? The only use case where this makes sense is if taking notes while checking a map or an app. One can totally lives without it.
Lower DX0 Mark? Never heard of it.

 

[simnew]

These ads are pretty stupid for the following reason:

the notch is a feature and if you don't like it, then don't buy the iPhone. Some might say it adds a certain look to an otherwise boring rectangular display. It is already being copied. To be copied is a sign of flattery as Samsung should know only too well.

Secondly, the SD card slot - really can't remember last time I used one - maybe when i transferred some photos from my Canon SLR to my MBP, but why on earth would I need one when I can fast comms, the cloud providing unlimited storage, and an OS that optimises storage on the phone brilliantly. Complete nonsense and in due course the SD card will disappear from Samsung phone guaranteed.

Thirdly, the use case for multi-tasking on a relatively small to small screen is vanishingly small. Maybe if I want to write some notes from a website, but surely I would just highlight, copy switch and paste. Much faster.

Key themes for Apple
- Quality - keep and improve that and ensure that the services you offer outpace your Android rivals. Services is where it is really at.
- Improve battery management and life
- Ergonomics - improve them whenever you have a new design if possible
- Camera - nothing much to improve - carry on as you are with the incremental. Maybe improve the front camera

Samsung and associated LG phones and some others have some of the brightest screens, yet the colour balance is so off, if you watch a movie, it begins to look like a CGI cartoon. But they are strong competitors and long may that continue to stop Apple becoming complacent

 

[The-Rift]

Apple should fire this ingenious,

 

[0947347]

Ya because iOS with the tons of new features in beta, and broken consuming all the battery are amazing every year!!!

You mean, being features rich for 1 or no upgrade (android) is better than 4 to 5 years worth of upgrades, with less features but more security and privacy?

If you are not a developer, you should not use beta versions of iOS and then complain. Of course they drain the battery, they run debug the whole time.

Each to their own. I went through a heap of Androids (Samsungs , LGs, Sharp, Sony, .. ) and all the iPhones since 4.

The phone are nice and all, but the cumbersomeness and lack of updates on Android always made me come back to iOS.
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Of the general phone buying masses, if Apple offered a phone with SD card facility, how many would pay the extra £140 for the 256 GB version if they could turn a 64GB phone into a 320GB phone for half that cost? An SD card in a phone is internal storage.
Apple don't offer SD card use because they don't get the money for the storage.

My friend was saying the same thing as you.
So, just for fun I took my friend’s Android, just took the SD and copied all of his pictures and documents, he stored there. SD is nice, but in no way this is good for privacy or security. You may think Apple does this because of greed. I don’t.

 

[Wanted797]

The notch one was dumb (you're 16:9 video isn't going to fit on the iPhone X or S9) but at least it was funny.

 

[MarkB786]

These ads ring so true. Love it!

 

[Wanted797]

iPhone has multitasking . . . just not the unbearably cumbersome split screen like Samsung. One measly little left or right swipe switches between most recent apps smoothly in iOS 12.

One of Samsung's ads/videos demonstrates split screen usage to paste link of a video in a text message. Waste of time.

Haha yeah show a customer how to do it on the iPhone then ask them to do it themselves. I'm sure they'd go fine. Do the same for a S9 hahaha

 

[kemal]

I like the ads. I have a 256GB micro SD in my S9 and just don't store stuff on my iP7. Love the split screen too. How long can I keep the 7 running to avoid the notch? Damn lifted BGA pads.

 

[norbinhouston]

I have iPhone, iPad air2, iPad Pro and MacBook which I use on everyday. Couple days ago my iCloud was full (no, idont pay or plan to pay for getting bigger than 5gb iCloud which is ridiculous small) and I decided to delete couple of hundreds of photos and few videos from my iPhone to get rid of the annoying "iCloud is full, manage your iCloud... blablabla" every time I picked up my iPad Pro. And it took over the night to get my iPad Pro realising that I have deleted bunch of photos and videos and have over a gig free space on iCloud. There wasn't anything I could do with the iPad Pro to speed up the process. Then I went to internet to check if the iCloud is down or so and found many message during the past years which guides you to "let your device be over the night and they should be synced together". What? Over a night? What a crap! iCloud is always been pain-in-the-ass and it still is. When im using windows pc and icloud - syncing again - it never had worked well. I have never seen so slow working cloud - It doesnt matter if you are using wifi or data. If I need a cloud I prefer using Google (drive for example) or my own NAS and both are working perfectly what ever device I have on my hands.

You should ask Apple for your money back for the free Cloud service they offer.