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Samsung Trolls Apple Over Lack of Innovation in Latest iPhone Lineup
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Samsung is not wrong. Dynamic Island is nifty but nothing that will dramatically change how we use iPhones. Nothing about the 14 pushes the envelope with maybe the exception of 2,000 not displays.
The cameras were the biggest disappointment. Very little innovation there… just copied what was available for years on Android phones. I’ll skip this and hope for a decent improvement in the telephoto lens next year. The least they could have done is copied Samsung there but Apple is being very stingy with their “innovations” and clearly holding some things back for future generations.
The cameras were the biggest disappointment. Very little innovation there… just copied what was available for years on Android phones. I’ll skip this and hope for a decent improvement in the telephoto lens next year. The least they could have done is copied Samsung there but Apple is being very stingy with their “innovations” and clearly holding some things back for future generations.
yet mirrorless cameras that take 20x better pictures are 26 Mpixels, what's Samsungs point?
Except Apple never mentioned the competition by name. They never called out Windows or Microsoft (or Dell etc). If you watch them, Hodgeman is a loveable, slightly pathetic goof and the point of each ad was something that was easier on the Mac. By contrast, the Samsung ads always seem mean-spirited and hectoring.
Also... the "Get a Mac" ads were made in a time when Apple was a distant 2nd place behind Windows PCs in market share and userbase. Apple was the underdog.
But in this case... Samsung is already the leader in smartphone sales.
So it kinda seems like Samsung is punching down.
I mean... just be a winner Samsung. What are you afraid of?
Except the most important ones: happy clients, units sold, revenue, stock price etc 😉
Darth Tulhu
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I like Samsung’s burn. Funny and clever. But pointless.
People buy iPhones for 2 reasons Samsung KNOWS they can’t compete with, for as long as they’ve been trying to do the same thing.
The OS, and more importantly… The ecosystem.
None of that folding, flipping, megapixel bullbootybutter matters to Apple customers.
People buy iPhones for 2 reasons Samsung KNOWS they can’t compete with, for as long as they’ve been trying to do the same thing.
The OS, and more importantly… The ecosystem.
None of that folding, flipping, megapixel bullbootybutter matters to Apple customers.
i wouldn’t buy a Samsung phone because I would never use Google’s android platform.
But, Samsung is 100% accurate in their criticisms of Apple.
Apple has really gone downhill. So many compromises. Always behind.
It’s one thing to take seemingly ‘dead’ tech (from the mainstream perspective) and refine and perfect it into something like the original iPhone. It’s quite another to just lazily copy the existing mainstream market and try to pretend you’re releasing something new and innovative.
But, Samsung is 100% accurate in their criticisms of Apple.
Apple has really gone downhill. So many compromises. Always behind.
It’s one thing to take seemingly ‘dead’ tech (from the mainstream perspective) and refine and perfect it into something like the original iPhone. It’s quite another to just lazily copy the existing mainstream market and try to pretend you’re releasing something new and innovative.
Totally agree with you.
The OS is so much more polished and the ecosystem works brilliant.
I’m pretty sure Apple explicitly trashed Intel when Apple was on PowerPC... only to switch everything to Intel later on. Apple has many times targeted their competition in their ads or presentation… and so what? If these companies want to call each other out, let them.
God… no, I don’t want you to take me out shopping. I’m establishing that your argument was utterly ridiculous, proven by your inability to back it up.
I don’t care which phones you have. I have owned both Android and iPhones, due to my line of work. Arguing that an iPhone is just a copy of a four year old Android phone, just because some features are Android first, is exactly the type of clueless arguments I was railing against earlier.
But hey, keep digging.
I don’t buy iPhone because of the things it can do, but because of how it feels to use it. This is something many people will never understand, to the point that they will go to great lengths to tell me that I’m wrong.
Every Samsung ad has this displayed in tiny lettering at the bottom - "Screen image simulated." With Apple, what you see is what you get. Samsung can piss off.
I think you responded to the wrong person. That said, I find your comment very odd because I know for a fact that you buy iPhones because of the things it can do, more so than just how it feels to use it. If it couldn't take good photos, if it still lacked copy & paste, if it lacked 3rd party apps, etc., iPhone might feel great with stock apps like with iPhone 1.0, but you wouldn't be buying it over Android phones. No sane person would.
Exactly.
In general, I don't get this blind brand loyalty that I'm seeing here on mr and this ridiculous notion that Apple would be above lashing out at the competition if it were the underdog.
All is fair in love and marketing and I think Samsung are smart to focus on Apple's shortcomings.
-Apple has the best SoCs and is market leader in many product categories, yes.
But Apple has stopped taking risks and has become too comfortable in its success. It doesn't have to impress consumers anymore so it just does the most incremental and easy things, year after year.
Samsung are correct in pointing this out even if it doesn't know how to deliver something that would appeal to iPhone buyers.
When you observe the blind loyalty on forums like this one, or similar ones on reddit, etc., you don't have to do a lot of addition to figure out why Apple can be as stingy with innovation as it is.
Once you settle on a brand and build your life and identity around it, you certainly won't feel very inclined to admit to its shortcomings unless they're literally screaming directly in your face or the brand reveals itself to be the opposite of what you thought it stood for.
Sad day comes when you can take a bird's eye view and realize that Apple is just as much a for profit business as any other smartphone brand and in no way puts as much time and money into making great products for you as you put into it. 💔
But until that day -Praise
That's because showing the actual creased screen in the ad would make people say "wtf?"
People actually thinking 108 megapixels is relevant in a phone... 😂
How much do you like ISO noise?
How much do you like ISO noise?