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See Samsung's Sunday newspaper ad about the iPhone 5. Whats your thoughts? (merged)
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There are many people on this forum who have switched. lots of people are talking about the new windows phones as well. So clearly there are reasons enough for some people.
The eco-system that people keep talking about it important but it's not a set of hand cuffs.
A lot of power users jail break and side load apps they didn't pay for so the Apps aspect isn't as powerful for people who are seriously knowledgable about phones. Those people are much more likely to switch and they will then tell people what they like about the other devices.
The rest of the eco-system is well a big question mark in reality. A lot of what people like to do online is platform and eco system agnostic. Facebook being a major example. Yes there are now more integration with iOS but some of it is just catch up with Android. And Facebook isn't stupid enough to only offer features for iOS either.
I don't know maybe you use a lot more of what apple offers but I have made it a policy to not have anything important (such as ebooks, i have gone to ebooks for all my technical literature) in a closed eco-system. Cause I don't want to be locked in. I don't want to be restricted to only being able to access my stuff on Apple's gear.
So, the iPhone 5 brings features that high end Android and Windows handsets have had for 2 years now is what your saying?
The 1B billion dollar lawsuit you mean. And Samsung will most likely appeal the hell out of everything, won't pay anywhere close to 1 billion dollars, and this will be dragged out for years in a big boring story.
I love my iPhone but even with how low this ad seems for samsung, they're simply pointing out the obvious. I know that ad's going to anger a lot of apple lovers especially the fan boys, but i ain't even mad. I'm just going to sit tight and see the post august tragedy sequel roll out with a popcorn on my hand.
Wrong.
Apple doesnt make any hardware, they dont even put it together as foxconn does.
Processor: Intel
RAM: Samsung,Hynnix or other
Screens: Sharp/LG
DVD: Sony etc
Graphics: Nvidia/AMD
Motherboard: Intel
This is of course for their laptops but I know for *sure* apple outsources a lot of their components, beginning with the camera as its made by Sony. The A6 processor is the only thing that apple could somewhat call their own.
Doesnt matter, too many people apple credit when theyre not due.
And what new features has Apple come up with the last few years? The last few were rip offs of Android. The notification bar and Siri. At least Samsung is creating new features never seen on a phone, Apple is doing nothing but taking others ideas and features
Apple has won in Germany and the Netherlands, as well. Plus, so far Apple has won monetary damages. Samsung hasn't.
And I don't think that a jury in the US is necessarily biased toward an American company. There is a lot of anti-Apple bias in this country, as evidenced by the comments you'll see on any tech site. Sure, California is the home of Apple, but it's also the home of Google, who supplied Samsung with the OS they use.
Another comparison Samsung forgot to add in their Apple / Samsung ad...
Innovate plus $1 Billion / Imitate minus $1 Billion
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Innovate plus $1 Billion / Imitate minus $1 Billion
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what base model iPhone you mean 16gb thats a base model ok if you say so If you think about it that way, the home edition or the pro? or just osx
Siri was not a copy of Android. Android had basic voice recognition, but so did iOS before Siri.
Apple designed a brand new CPU for the iPhone 5 (AnandTech confirmed it). They also are the first to have an in-cell touch technology to allow thinner screens.
It doesn't matter if Samsung already had it. The iPhone now has it. People are now deciding between an LTE iPhone and an LTE Samsung phone. The iPhone already has a clear advantage in its OS. I'm not trying to pick a side in who should win the consumers over, but the consumers aren't going to complain that their iPhone 5's predecessor did not have LTE and other hardware features that the S3 already had.
The significance of the lawsuit is not the 1 billion dollars. That's not much money for Samsung or Apple. Their phones could get blocked in the US or at least get bad reputation in the US.
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/1...rioritizing-performance-and-power-efficiency/
They make the phone hardware as opposed to say Android which is an OS where others make the handsets, no one is not using components from other suppliers. Does news papers make their news papers, no a printing house does, now take away the work that the news paper does, and you end up with a blank paper. See where the value is coming from ?
Well, if you look at it like that then none of the big companies make their own hardware...
I'm looking forward to all the comparison reviews.
I would like to see a picture of a iPhone 5 next to the S3 with an app running.
The new stretched screen is my only disappointment.
The only benefit i can see is more room for iAds.
For me the new iPhone 5s (s=stretch) is a pass.
If the S3 was running IOS i would buy it.
I would like to see a picture of a iPhone 5 next to the S3 with an app running.
The new stretched screen is my only disappointment.
The only benefit i can see is more room for iAds.
For me the new iPhone 5s (s=stretch) is a pass.
If the S3 was running IOS i would buy it.
Who wouldn't be? When you have a company out to get anything non apple out there with patents that should not even be patented. Eveen Wozniac disagrees on the samsung-apple verdict
Or those how still think of the original iMac when you say Apple, or worse still the likes of the Mac Plus
Now it's the most valuable company in the world, the iPhone alone brings in more cash than most other companies in the world. Its so important that it's expected to help the US JDP in the coming year.
In my place the contract free S3 is about $130 cheaper then the iPhone 5.
One more in favor for the S3: In my place you can go and buy a S3. For the iPhone 5 you have to wait, or line up every morning in front of the Apple Store, or join the daily lucky draw. i4 or i4s you can just go and buy though.