Samsung Unveils Line of Gear 2 Smart Watches Featuring 'Tizen' Mobile Operating System

[mib1800]

All those believing samsung copied iwatch must also believe apple is the slowest and most incompetent company there is.

Why? In order to copy there has to be an existence of an actual "real" iwatch. But seeing apple cannot release it maybe 2 years after samsung who copied it really makes apple the most incompetent of all.

Apple fans please do continue to harp on samsung copied iwatch. The rest of us will always get reminded how incompetent and slow apple is every time we hear this.

 

[Rogifan]

Here's what some Apple industrial designers think of the Galaxy Gear.

 

[shandyman]

All those believing samsung copied iwatch must also believe apple is the slowest and most incompetent company there is.

Why? In order to copy there has to be an existence of an actual "real" iwatch. But seeing apple cannot release it maybe 2 years after samsung who copied it really makes apple the most incompetent of all.

Apple fans please do continue to harp on samsung copied iwatch. The rest of us will always get reminded how incompetent and slow apple is every time we hear this.

Incompetent? What's more incompetent, releasing a watch that only had about 1 day of battery usage or apple delaying theirs to ensure they have at least a weeks worth of battery?! If you paid attention online, Apple delayed for this reason.

 

[Rogifan]

So I'm watching the Oscars tonight and Ellen Degeneres (the host) took a selfie on stage (looked totally staged to me as she made sure the Samsung logo was showing and they're a sponsor) but when her staff first posted it to twitter it was posted from an iPhone. And the photo itself certainly wasn't a ringing endorsement of the Galaxy camera.

And just minutes after her selfie, it was back to the iPhone. How many times has this happened to Sansung now?

 

[apolloa]

So I'm watching the Oscars tonight and Ellen Degeneres (the host) took a selfie on stage (looked totally staged to me as she made sure the Samsung logo was showing and they're a sponsor) but when her staff first posted it to twitter it was posted from an iPhone. And the photo itself certainly wasn't a ringing endorsement of the Galaxy camera.

Your REAAALLLLYYYY getting desperate now mate

 

[Rogifan]

Your REAAALLLLYYYY getting desperate now mate

Haha, no check out twitter. I certainly wasn't the first to point this out. And there is a lot of negativity towards Samsung because their advertising is so blatant. Every other commercial is a Galaxy commercial and these "selfies" were only written in the script so the Galaxy note could be shown off on TV (the logo isn't covered up or hidden in any way). I saw a number of tweets from people wondering if they were watching the oscars or a Samsung infomercial.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Your REAAALLLLYYYY getting desperate now mate

Disclaimer: This post is intended to be humorous.

 

[Rogifan]

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Disclaimer: This post is intended to be humorous.

Go twitter Samsung oscars and see what you get. Most of the tweets are about Ellen using an iPhone backstage and Samsung paying to have Ellen do selfies. People turned on their TV to watch the oscars not a Samsung infomercial.

Isn't it a bit curious, that Ellen's backstage tweets are coming from iPhone?

Apparently Ellen was paid by Samsung to send selfie tweets during the show.

http://twitter.com/andrewbg/status/440328182537801729

 

[kdarling]

So I'm watching the Oscars tonight ...

This should be an entirely new thread.

 

[samcraig]

This should be an entirely new thread.

Sadly for him - no one will care about what he thinks is important.

Instead - they will remember this photo...

 

[Rogifan]

Sadly for him - no one will care about what he thinks is important.

Instead - they will remember this photo...

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And nowhere in that photo do you see Samsung. Samsung supposedly paid $20M for their Oscars advertising. Twitter didn't spend a dime. Seems to me Twitter was the real winner. Nokia and LG mocked the blurry photo. Apple didn't need to do anything as it's all over the news that back stage Ellen was tweeting out selfies from her iPhone.

 

[samcraig]

And nowhere in that photo do you see Samsung. Samsung supposedly paid $20M for their Oscars advertising. Twitter didn't spend a dime. Seems to me Twitter was the real winner. Nokia and LG mocked the blurry photo. Apple didn't need to do anything as it's all over the news that back stage Ellen was tweeting out selfies from her iPhone.

Ok. Clearly you are always right. Samsung won't benefit from this at all.

 

[dec.]

Sadly for him - no one will care about what he thinks is important.

Instead - they will remember this photo...

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Not really "no one", since I've read several articles about Ellen's personal choice being an iPhone over a Samsung Galaxy on Cnet, the Verge and similar sources.

At least there won't be any false rumors about "Samsung banning "iPhones from the Oscars .

 

[vomhorizon]

I don't think samsung will hurt much frome the entire episode..Publicity is publicity and their goals were pretty much all met. This is also not very uncommon given that Lebron James was also seen using an iPhone after being announced as the official spokesman of the Samsung Galaxy Note II last year, and David bekham was also spotted using the iPhone..

http://kollegekidd.com/news/samsung-galaxy-endorsee-lebron-james-owns-an-iphone

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...go-on-their-iphones-during-opening-ceremonies

 

[samcraig]

Well I know that whenever I think of buying a new phone - the first question I ask is what the celebrities are using. Because - you know - I want to be just like them.

 

[dec.]

Well I know that whenever I think of buying a new phone - the first question I ask is what the celebrities are using. Because - you know - I want to be just like them.

I agree. But - for some bizarre reasons companies still want to put out their brand there... and that not for nothing... (although I'm not sure if Apple paid Ellen for the backstage tweet...lol)

 

[dec.]

And if Apple makes a bigger screen phone, they'll be doing it because other companies have already made them popular.

Which bigger ones are so popular right now?

 

[kdarling]

Which bigger ones are so popular right now?

Is this a real question? Phones with bigger screens than the iPhone are popular all over the world... and especially in places like China:

"The trend became even more apparent this week, as handset makers introduced a number of big-screen smartphones — from five diagonal inches to more than seven inches — at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain."
...
"Demand for big-screen phones is clearly strong. IDC, the research firm, estimates that at least 20 percent of all smartphones shipped last year in China, the largest smartphone market in the world, were five inches or larger. It predicts that number will balloon to 50 percent by 2017."

Handset Makers Go Big on Smartphones - NY Times

And that's just 5" or above. Anything over 4" is bigger than the iPhone.

 

[kdarling]

It's difficult for Scamsung to create something new, that looks nice, without Jony Ive's help.

Most everyone gets helped by others. Jon Ive, for example, is well known for using Dieter Rams designs as inspiration. Not to mention things like Apple's reuse of the Swiss railways clock, because it looked nice.

If (the) prototype image mattered, which it doesn't, then why didn't Scamsung use that for their defence? Why didn't Scamsung win? Because what you posted doesn't matter.

The image of the Samsung prototypes wasn't shown because Apple's lawyers managed to suppress that and other important prior art. Apparently they didn't believe they could win in a fair fight where the jury saw all the evidence. As Samsung's lawyers said:

"The Judge’s exclusion of evidence on independent creation meant that even though Apple was allowed to inaccurately argue to the jury that the F700 was an iPhone copy, Samsung was not allowed to tell the jury the full story and show the pre-iPhone design for that and other phones that were in development at Samsung in 2006, before the iPhone. '

Apple also likes to suppress prior art like the Korean 2005 Pidion touchscreen smartphone. (For good reason. Apple had already lost an iPhone design case in the EU where the Pidion was shown.) It had rounded corners, chrome bezel, a full browser, icons on a homescreen, and a seminal iPhone prototype looked a lot like it.



Ironically, Unwired even commented in 2005, "If Apple would ever decide to build a new Apple Newton, it could look like this new Pocket PC from Korean ODM Pidion."

What you have to ask yourself is, if Apple really truly believed their designs were innovative, then why would they be so worried about letting the jury see all the evidence. Hiding prior art is not the action of someone who thinks that they truly did something new and unique.

 

[patseguin]

Someone called in to a radio show I listened to saying how cool this is. He said you can text, use apps like Twitter, etc. If Apple does in fact have something planned I hope it has integration with you iOS phone. Lot of potential applications but I think obviously any discussion about an iWatch is purely speculation.