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Samsung's New Galaxy Tab TV Ad Feels a Lot Like an Apple iPad Ad
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If you are upset by the Samsung ad you are a shallow weak little Apple fanboy probably in need of some professional help.
nothing to do with race, we're talking about companies and company culture here.
This ad isn't really news. It's just another addition to a long string of Apple-copying that Samsung has been doing for months now.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/09/29/apple-samsung-copycat-2/
I certainly do hope Apple pursues them to the fullest legal extent - delays them, harasses them, and uses every possible weapon within the legal limits of the game to make life as difficult as possible for them. This is what you do with thieves.
Boeing should go after Airbus, then...
Boeing should go after Airbus, then...
They have:
Boeing vs. Airbus—The Biggest WTO Dispute Ever
http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0507010
By what measure?
Price per share: Apple $405 vs. Berkshire Hathaway $108.000
Market Value: Apple $324 billion vs. Exxon $407 billion
Revenue (FY11): Apple $108 billion vs. Walmart $421 billion
Profits (FY11): Apple $26 billion vs. Nestle $36 billion
Total Assets (FY11): Apple $116 billion vs Fannie Mae $3222 billion
Don't get me wrong: Apple's rise in recent years is quite remarkable. But saying that Apple is the "biggest" or "most valuable" company in the world is just not true, no matter how you look at it (maybe the most valuable in tech).
Actually, even good old MSFT was more profitable (% to revenue) in FY11 than APPL: $23 billion profit with only $70 billion revenue (vs. APPL's $26b/$108b)
In regards to Samsung (I don't have a stake in it, don't own anything Samsung): This company is in a different league. We look at it as an Apple competitor to iPhones/iPads. This stuff is just peanuts for them. They are the worlds second largest ship builder, also supplying parts for the A380 engine etc. etc. They are like GE.
p.s.: just some food for thought. According to wiki:
"Samsung has invested about $5.6 billion in the Austin location (TV assambly) – by far the largest foreign investment in Texas and one of the largest single foreign investments in the United States. The new investment will bring the total Samsung investment in Austin to more than $9 billion."
I wish the same could be said of any big US tech company (creating manufacturing jobs, not just robot run data centers).
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They have:
Boeing vs. AirbusThe Biggest WTO Dispute Ever
http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0507010
What do subsidies have to do with basic product design?
You write the truth.
Samsung copies Apple everything, product, parts, accessories, packaging, ad's. They are pathetic and I can't understand why people buy their crap.
South Koreans for the most part don't care for Samsung, they long for Apple products. Samsung is known there as a huge family run company corrupt as hell, breaking laws, avoiding taxes, bribing politicians yet so many north Americans defend them and buy their products. Strange.
What do subsidies have to do with basic product design?
Pardon me sir, let me make it more relevant for you:
"Airbus sues Boeing partner over winglet patent"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/02/airbus-wingtip-idUSN1E7B10U220111202
As long as the ads don't have that grating voiceover guy "are you interested in..." ugh just shut up! Apple's advertising at the moment is putting me off buying the product. I used to see it as cutting edge and profesional. Now its like watching a tampon ad.
If I weren't paying close attention, I might have thought that was just a foreign iPad commercial
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No. No intent of stereotyping or racism here. Just the idea of two strangers (in this case actors) portraying what a director believes to be what an ideal family is without the pretext of a narrative has always disturbed me. It goes the same with any commercial out there.
What .. I'm drinking too much KoolAid? Well let me tell you this. Apple hardly do things for the first time. And believe it or not, you're enjoying that KoolAid too.
It's not the first time Apple make MP3 player, but iPod was the best portable player back then.
Apple is not the first who makes tablet, not even close, but iPad was the only tablet that has made it to the market.
Apple is not the first one to make smartphone, but iPhone is being the milestone of what smartphone should've been. No stylus, no complicated buttons, built in battery, NAND flash, iTunes syncing, micro SIM, and slowly Android phones has followed those specs.
Hypocrite at best, wouldn't you say?
And for the last time, Siri is not the first intelligent voice assistant out there, but again it set up the milestone. No one care enough about voice assistant before Siri, but now Android Market has been flooded by efforts of creating Siri clones (some I might say shamelessly).
Why now? Why not attempt those before Siri? Can't think of better idea?
So yeah, being a really big company, it's a shame for Samsung to only be able to copy and follow Apple, considering mobile computers are only a small part of their business.
Samsung make some of the best HDTV, great refrigerator, and many household appliances and not copying others. Why not doing the same for their mobile computer products?
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Apple shows direction (as a faraway leaders , God bless them) and has a lot of followers( no staff like tis "" ). Some of them are better then others obviously - Samsung at the very moment is.
Love my whiteSamsung smartTV panel ))
Apple shows direction (as a faraway leaders , God bless them) and has a lot of followers( no staff like tis "" ). Some of them are better then others obviously - Samsung at the very moment is.
Love my whiteSamsung smartTV panel ))
Those ads are brilliant TBH as they instil a "I need to get me one of those" feeling.
These cutesy commercials suck. Theyre boring. That goes for Apple as well.
Samsung should continue with the iPhone mocking commercials and go all out with those. They did a brilliant job pointing out how the apple cult is full of blind worshipers.
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I got warnings for calling out the lack of logic and rationale present in the macrumors forums without even targeting any specific member.
But racism is allowed?
I'd like *all* of my unwarranted warnings REVOKED.
Samsung should continue with the iPhone mocking commercials and go all out with those. They did a brilliant job pointing out how the apple cult is full of blind worshipers.
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I got warnings for calling out the lack of logic and rationale present in the macrumors forums without even targeting any specific member.
But racism is allowed?
I'd like *all* of my unwarranted warnings REVOKED.