Samsung Ad: Bend to those that are worthy

[chris001]

Check out this link of more brands jumping in on the fun.

http://www.ibtimes.com/new-samsung-ad-capitalizes-apples-iphone-6-plus-bending-problem-1694861

Too funny

Also, my personal favourite.

 

[McCool71]

Samsung does produce a decent product. However, putting out ads like this wreaks of desperation.

This clearly isn't an official ad. This is just something put together as a quick joke. I have seen a handful of variations of the mock-up in this thread alone - some with text, some without, some with logos, some without and so on.

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This is so stupid! Maybe one day they can focus on their own devices.

I am amused that people get so (wait for it....) bent out of shape by something that is clearly a thing slapped together quickly in Photoshop by someone just for fun. Samsung has nothing to do with this at all.

 

[sotorious]

If they did do that it's brilliant everyone in the world right now is talking about how the iPhone bends. People that I wouldn't even think that follows phones as close as some of us do.

 

[Technarchy]

Very clever.

Even funnier reading it on my unbent iPhone 6, which replaced my Galaxy S5.

 

[Oohara]

Looks like Samsung even paid Conan O'brien to be in on this one

http://www.androidcentral.com/bent-iphone-6-got-you-down-conan-obrien-has-solution

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Very clever.

Even funnier reading it on my unbent iPhone 6, which replaced my Galaxy S5.

Just don't look at it too hard m8...

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

This is actually a very clever add and Apple deserves it. We all know that Apple would pounce all over the competition with snarky remarks if the tables were turned. In every keynote Apple attempts to throw "clever" jabs. Yes, I'm an Apple user, no, I'm not an irrational fanboy.

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I've seen both manufacturers have digs at each other in keynote's but that isn't official marketing literature. An extremely small fraction of the people who buy Samsung and Apple devices actually watch the keynote speeches. I think using billboard advertising to take pops at each other is just poor and puts consumers off. I'm sure Apple have done it in the past, however I haven't seen it as obvious in a long time.

Tesco supermarkets use a similar method in the UK when advertising by criticising the competitors and its one of the reasons I don't buy my groceries there. I just think its a weak form of advertising and an attempt to name drop in order to attract business. I'm sure Samsung are keen to keep the rivalry alive because its good for business, I just don't like the way it has made consumers competitive and we end up with threads that turn into slanging matches over something as insignificant in importance as a mobile phone. It makes enjoying tech very hard indeed.

 

[mackinmike]

i'd gotta admit.. pretty clever. got a chuckle out of it.

 

[jamezr]

Looks like Samsung even paid Conan O'brien to be in on this one

http://www.androidcentral.com/bent-iphone-6-got-you-down-conan-obrien-has-solution

That was funny!

You know he didn't get paid....he does that kind of stuff all time it is part of his schtick.........

 

[Savor]

Apple vs Samsung rivalry reminds me alot of the Nintendo vs SEGA rivalry in game consoles back in the early 1990's.

Apple is like Nintendo. Very stubborn to change. Very strict. Top quality software.

Samsung is like SEGA. Brash and clever marketing attacks. Takes too many chances.

Samsung's Galaxy Camera and Galaxy Golden never went anywhere. The Note Edge might.

Of course SEGA is gone now in the hardware business, but surprisingly is making a comeback in mobile games. Nintendo made some resurgence with the Wii & DS lite, but neither of their successors have sold as well and Nintendo lost like half a billion recently. Nintendo like Apple, wants too much control on software.

I do enjoy Samsung's ads sometimes. I really like their point with "Wall Huggers" and "Screen Envy". Funny and very much true. They rag on the iPhone user mentality. It is all competitive marketing. Other companies do it to each other like politicians. Even HTC joined on the fun. It isn't like Apple wasn't guilty doing the same for 90% of PC users out there using the "incredible" actor, Justin Long (great in Zack & Miri) as the Mac guy.

 

[Markyboy81]

Snap in half? What in the world could someone be doing to have a phone nearly snap in a pocket?

I'm not sure but the phone nearly snapping would be the least of your worries!

 

[Savor]

I do believe Samsung is like two steps away from GREATNESS. If they can try to emulate the design languages of Apple & Sony but coming up with their own style with consistency, they can get there. If they can emulate the software elegance of Apple with consistency, they WILL get there.

From there, that's when I will finally admit Samsung is truly one of the legendary companies and among the highest pantheon of all-time greats.

It took me years to appreciate SEGA as one of the legends in video games. After reading IGN's fantastic article on "The History of SEGA" (saved in my Pocket app), that's when I realized I love SEGA more than Nintendo now even if I own most of the latter's consoles. SEGA's rise and fall is more interesting to me. They had many failed attempts like 32X, Saturn, etc. But it was in their final push, Dreamcast, which was the final nail in their hardware coffin that they really got to me as a gamer. Shenmue II is one of my all-time favs ever.

Samsung will get there among all-time greats. They just got to keep innovating, imagine their backs are always against the wall, and be persistent the way SEGA did it when they died out in console hardware with nobility.

 

[kdarling]

Well it has started. Forums-videos-news outlets-Samsung Ads.

I think that you should make it clear in both the thread title, and at the top of your first post, that this is NOT an ad from Samsung.

Just look at all the confused people responding, thinking that it is.

 

[sc4rf4c3]

I think that you should make it clear in both the thread title, and at the top of your first post, that this is NOT an ad from Samsung.

Just look at all the confused people responding, thinking that it is.

I remember the 'Wake Up' anti-Apple ad campaign from two years where everybody is blaming Samsung for organizing it. Then we found out that it was Blackberry who staged the campaign.

 

[ob81]

I think that you should make it clear in both the thread title, and at the top of your first post, that this is NOT an ad from Samsung.

Just look at all the confused people responding, thinking that it is.

You have a strong point; if I was getting paid to do this.

Cheerio m8.

 

[Sensamic]

Smart and funny. I like it.

 

[Technarchy]

Samsung could never bend like this...

 

[F123D]

Walmart ad.

 

[jamezr]

Walmart ad.

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LOL...that was funny.....

 

[Oohara]

Walmart ad.

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LOL

To those taking this superseriously and responding in defense of the iPhone/Apple - relax, this is only for shtz and giggles m8. Apple did a boo-boo and people are taking the opportunity to have a seldom offered laugh at big bro; there's no gain in trying to defend. You'll only help Apple stand out as the fat kid in class who put a frog in the teacher's coffee: no amount of defending is going to change the fact that you burned a poor little frog in trying to be cool, people will still think you're fat and mean. Better to quietly roll with it and seize a later opportunity for proving that you're smarter than them all.

 

[mrex]

Samsung could never bend like this...

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because they dont need to? they still sell well without hype and manipulating images? they dont need to tell people how to hold the phone and nowadays how to carry the phone too?

samsung could make an ad: "you will never hold or carry it wrong"

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

because they dont need to? they still sell well without hype and manipulating images? they dont need to tell people how to hold the phone and nowadays how to carry the phone too?

samsung could make an ad: "you will never hold or carry it wrong"

Samsung's recent marketing campaigns have been heavily Apple influenced so I wouldn't put it past them having yet another dig to be honest.

 

[Savor]

I actually downloaded those SEGA ads that bashed Nintendo during the early 1990's months ago trying to reminisce my middle school/wonder years. My fav ad is the Game Gear one where Ethan Suplee is playing a GameBoy and then hit his head with a dead squirrel to see "color." I can't believe Seth Rogen is going to make a movie about that Nintendo vs SEGA rivalry. Looking forward to it. I enjoy his humor.

Apple vs Samsung is this generation's rivalry for people too young to even remember the ads of Pepsi against Coca-Cola during the 80's or SEGA against Nintendo during the early 90's. I always felt Apple's most bitter rival was Microsoft just like Sony's was Toshiba (not Microsoft or Nintendo).

Twenty years from now when neither Apple or Samsung are as popular as they used to be as fresher, younger blood will rise to the top, we will all look back at this with a chuckle. It is now when both are successful that people bash them and can't appreciate what they are doing now. When they passed their prime and become underdogs is when haters and contrarians start to appreciate what they did. Alot of people bashed IBM and Sony when they were in their prime. Can't appreciate them until they are nearly gone.

 

[spinedoc77]

I actually downloaded those SEGA ads that bashed Nintendo during the early 1990's months ago trying to reminisce my middle school/wonder years. My fav ad is the Game Gear one where Ethan Suplee is playing a GameBoy and then hit his head with a dead squirrel to see "color." I can't believe Seth Rogen is going to make a movie about that Nintendo vs SEGA rivalry. Looking forward to it. I enjoy his humor.

Apple vs Samsung is this generation's rivalry for people too young to even remember the ads of Pepsi against Coca-Cola during the 80's or SEGA against Nintendo during the early 90's. I always felt Apple's most bitter rival was Microsoft just like Sony's was Toshiba (not Microsoft or Nintendo).

Twenty years from now when neither Apple or Samsung are as popular as they used to be as fresher, younger blood will rise to the top, we will all look back at this with a chuckle. It is now when both are successful that people bash them and can't appreciate what they are doing now. When they passed their prime and become underdogs is when haters and contrarians start to appreciate what they did. Alot of people bashed IBM and Sony when they were in their prime. Can't appreciate them until they are nearly gone.

Seth Rogen is making a Nintendo vs. sega movie? Lol, that should be awesome. As someone in his 40s I grew up exactly in that time period and it was pretty awesome to have both of those options. I just saw neighbors last night and it was hilarious so I know Seth still has talent.