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See Samsung's Sunday newspaper ad about the iPhone 5. Whats your thoughts? (merged)
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Turn over to mute (a Nokia innovation) and picture-in-picture are nice, but I doubt I'll ever see an Apple phone with a "shake to update" feature.
I think this Samsung hate is hilarious. Samsung bad...unless you are buying a rMBP (gotta get the Samsung display) or a MBA (gotta get a Samsung SSD and display). All companies market their products - I pick the one that works for my needs by researching and not from anyone's biased marketing...apple or Samsung or whoever.
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iPhone 4S sold 4 Million in three days, so apple sold 1/5 of what Samsung sold in 1/40 of the time they did. It toke the iPhone 4S 22 hours to sell out but it toke only 1 hour for the 5 to sell out. To the look of it the amount of iPhone 5s sold is gotta be really high. Not saying it will reach 20 Million in a week but it will way quicker than the Galaxy S 3 did.
That I do like. It would be really nice to just be able to turn my phone over and not worry about it until I DECIDE to look at it. No more interruptions. (Yes, I know it's easy to flip the switch on the side, turning it over is just a cool inovation to make it even simpler. Plus, you could make the switch vibrate and turning it over completely silent.)
Yeah, when you have only 100,000 devices in stock, you would be sold out in couple of hours; but if you'd make 1,000,000 devices on the first day (I'm just throwing the numbers as an example), it would take you longer to be sold out. Try to read about supply and demand and techniques in marketing, every company is doing it - some are more than others.
Yea but news gets to the uk no? I am in the uk you know and got it through the ebst Ipad app Flipboard under technology tab
S-Beam me up Scotty!
That's what I think when I see "S-Beam"
Either way, it goes to show that Samsung is very insecure about their future and yes, this ad seems like it was made by a raged 12 year old.
I fail to see how it will only be 100,000 in stock when last year AT&T alone reported taking 200,000 pre-orders for the 4S before being sold out thats not including Sprint, Verizon or international carriers. My Previous comment was an example of what to expect, people tend to forget that was just pre-order stock and the official release is on the 21st that is when the real numbers come in and then we shall see.
It's actually pretty rare. In any case, the Mac vs. PC ads were a bit different (though note that Apple in this case was in the weaker position at the time). They didn't show two products with checklists. They had John Hodgman and Justin Long in ads that were more humorous.
The fact that Samsung is coming out with ads this direct, and paid for ads that showed up when someone searched for "iPhone 5" in Google shows that they are very concerned about the impact of the new iPhone.
To be fair the average non tech person I talk to about Android won't buy it because "It's based off Windows and gets viruses." Just stating facts that strong sales don't really mean much in terms of quality or OSX would be in every household in the world (or other unix/linux based OS).
Apple is hot right now and a lot of people are just on the bandwagon.
I do like iOS better, just my opinion.
Anandtech has pretty much confirmed that iPhone 5 and it's Apple A6 is Apple's very first custom design SoC, which means Samsung is not providing Apple with their SoC solutions anymore like they did in the past?
If we also take into account that LG and Sharp are the ones cranking out the display panels for the iPhone 5, and they stopped with the Glass cover (which supposedly also came from Samsung?) and have gone for a thin layer of Gorilla Glass from Corning, and the fact that the iPhone 5 features RAM and NAND from Hynix and Eplida instead of Samsung and Apple has gone for a "all-in-one" cell chip from Qualcomm, is there really anything made from Samsung in the iPhone 5?
If not, that must hurt Samsung Electronics quite a lot considering how Apple has been one of their biggest and most stable sources of income for the last couple of years.
If we also take into account that LG and Sharp are the ones cranking out the display panels for the iPhone 5, and they stopped with the Glass cover (which supposedly also came from Samsung?) and have gone for a thin layer of Gorilla Glass from Corning, and the fact that the iPhone 5 features RAM and NAND from Hynix and Eplida instead of Samsung and Apple has gone for a "all-in-one" cell chip from Qualcomm, is there really anything made from Samsung in the iPhone 5?
If not, that must hurt Samsung Electronics quite a lot considering how Apple has been one of their biggest and most stable sources of income for the last couple of years.
A big difference is that they didn't actually compare the two products. They had two actors do humorous skits to prove a point. In some respects, it was more like the ads Samsung did last year (which were more effective, IMO), though unlike the Samsung ads they made fun of the product, and not the customer.
This ad is more like the ones GM used to run in the late 1990s and early 2000s that attempted to compare products like Pontiacs to BMWs and similar cars based on "specs." We all know how that turned out for GM.
I believe Samsung is still the foundry. Since the iPhone 4, Apple has designed the SoC. Samsung just tools the factory and produces it to Apple's specs.
Exactly. If you have to mention the competition then you've got big problems already!! The numbers speak for that, too!