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Samsung Throws Shade at Apple Ahead of iPhone 14 Launch: 'This Innovation Is Not Coming Soon to an iPhone Near You'
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Samsung makes great phones. I like the competition. I hope apple doesn't go down the high megapixel route with small sensors. When phones have more megapixels than $1000 cameras the phone is doing something wrong.
Except they are referencing an upcoming Apple event/phone.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. --Joseph Addison
Never understood the "WOW YOUR PHONE SUCKS GET OURS" argument. Why would I switch to a company that uses these tactics or marketing? Is this to make other Samsung users to feel mightier than Apple users or is this to get Apple users to switch to Samsung? Feels like the former more than the latter
What exactly was so exiting about the 13, or the 12, or the 11?..
That is a myopic viewpoint. No one in the smartphone market has truly innovated since the iPhone came out. There have been iterations and features added, but true innovation? Not so much. They all still look like slabs of glass with icons on them. Some are bigger, some you can fold, some you can swim with, but they are all still basically the same as they were in 2007. Even tablets and smart watches are just iterative of the smartphone. True innovation comes along very rarely. And being disappointed or saying a company has "forgotten" how to innovate, misses the lesson history gives on innovation.
Why do they always do this? They should be saying finally, we will have something copy and make money manufacturing parts for the 'Lovely Enemy'!
The problem with the premise of this ad is it caters to those that feel the need to brag about these unnecessary features (and I like Samsung phones, too). 10 years ago that worked. Nowadays the market is too mature, people are spending less, and anecdotally I see more people bragging about holding onto their phones for longer, rather than getting the latest features which usually aren't necessary.
Either that, or maybe I'm just older and more mature, as are most of my peers...
Either that, or maybe I'm just older and more mature, as are most of my peers...
Damn A Flip Phone...I gotts ta gets me one of those 😂
It's Like a Zune but Better....
It's Like a Zune but Better....
Who cares about 108MP? Even Samsung does a 9:1 pixel binning to 12MP. Same thing that Apple is rumored to do. Know one needs 108MP unless they are printing giant prints and in that case you will definitely not use a smartphone. Even if it has a high count, that doesn’t equal quality.
This is great - it pushes Apple.
In the old days, I did try some Androids and Samsungs. This was when the iPhone didn't have some features like PIP and others that required gaolbreaking. There are very issues like that now and the Apple ecosystem just beats Android by a mile and a half.
These type of bleeding edge features will come to the iPhone if they are useful. But they are not mainstream features. Still, it's nice for Samsung to beta test for Apple, no?
Has anyone also questioned if some of the anti-Apple messages on these iPhone versus android/Samsung boards are coming from Samsung farms? They've been known to do it. I just don't believe real android fanboys would be on macrumors.
In the old days, I did try some Androids and Samsungs. This was when the iPhone didn't have some features like PIP and others that required gaolbreaking. There are very issues like that now and the Apple ecosystem just beats Android by a mile and a half.
These type of bleeding edge features will come to the iPhone if they are useful. But they are not mainstream features. Still, it's nice for Samsung to beta test for Apple, no?
Has anyone also questioned if some of the anti-Apple messages on these iPhone versus android/Samsung boards are coming from Samsung farms? They've been known to do it. I just don't believe real android fanboys would be on macrumors.
But why shouldn't they? It's not illegal. Let them do what they want to do and chill! I choose iPhones and I prefer iPhones and iOS personally. I don't have a Samsung and never will, probably. But I don't care what they advertise and how if it is legal and if it is not, it is not my problem anyway. Really, I think it is strange that some people get into such a lather over this sort of thing. I like Apple, but I am not part of some sort of obsessive cult about it.
Yes, no worry on that front from Apple. The iPhone 14 will be less for more money. Think Different!
It's not copying Apple by doing things Apple is not doing.
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Samsung just wants Apple iPhone's sales margin. It's too bad, they will never catch up to the iPhone. However, I do welcome the competition. But don't be throwing shades. That's low!
If the iPhone 14 could have just 3X optical zoom, that would be nice.
Nobody at Apple is going to be impressed by any ad that Samsung will run against them. Samsung shamelessly copied the iPhone which kinda signifies what kind of company Samsung is.
I was watching someone use a Samsung folding phone the other day, and was really surprised by the ugly fold that was clearly visible in the middle of the screen. It looked awful. Samsung likes to innovate, but they frequently don't follow through with a high quality customer experience. I would bet that photos from the iPhone 14 will look better than Samsung's 108 megapixel photos, and they won't require as much storage space.
Because they aren't inviting Apple to innovate, they are s—tting on an product that has already been created. This was in response to your 'nothing wrong with that', as I disagree.
Samsung's ads are aimed at Android folks. As such, they often poke fun of Apple and copy a year or two later -- such as the headphones jack, power adapter, and notch to name a few.
In the case of camera, they want to promote being the "first" without sufficiently communicating the quality of the feature nor its benefits.
In the case of camera, they want to promote being the "first" without sufficiently communicating the quality of the feature nor its benefits.
Do they not realize they are advertising for Apple by doing this?
Idiots.
Idiots.
No one needs anything more than 12 Megapixels (until Apple reveals the magical telescope 48 Megapixel camera)