Apple is a religion to many. I have a friend who tries to convert everyone who will listen. I prefer most Apple products, but I don't give a crap if others prefer something else, nor do I push my technology philosophy on others.
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See Samsung's Sunday newspaper ad about the iPhone 5. Whats your thoughts? (merged)
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Did you look at my signature? If you did you'd see that I have an S3 running Jelly Bean
Scrolling is every bit as smooth as on my iPad 2.
Going to need to disagree. I don't see it.
It doesn't take a genius to see:
SGS3: Butt Ugly Plastiphone
iPhone 5: Not a Butt Ugly Plastiphone
Yes it's vain. Most things in life are. Even if you cede that the sgs3 does more crap, it's still just lipstick on a pig. I feel that everything "extra" is likely useless to me anyway.
Anyway, I like having the nicer looking things in life. Sometimes it doesn't even involve sacrifices. My car doesn't tow 10000 pounds, but I don't need it to. It also doesn't seat 8. Ask me if I care?
Phones are personal preference. Even still, you can dress up the ugly girl all you want with "features", it won't make me want it.
If it wasn't made of plastic and didn't feel like it, then we could talk UX. Until then I have no reason to even start looking elsewhere.
If you did a "which phone is better built/feels more "premium"" comparison between the iPhone and the entire Android lineup SGS3 included, it would be no contest. Apple knows that counts. Samsung doesn't .
Vain? Yep. But last I checked, the pretty girls in reality usually get preferential treatment. People hate that I'm right, but the SGS3 in my mind is the equivalent of the pretty girls ugly cousin (who's a bit portly, but might know a few more useless facts and have a bit more "storage space")...
Yippee!
SGS3: Butt Ugly Plastiphone
iPhone 5: Not a Butt Ugly Plastiphone
Yes it's vain. Most things in life are. Even if you cede that the sgs3 does more crap, it's still just lipstick on a pig. I feel that everything "extra" is likely useless to me anyway.
Anyway, I like having the nicer looking things in life. Sometimes it doesn't even involve sacrifices. My car doesn't tow 10000 pounds, but I don't need it to. It also doesn't seat 8. Ask me if I care?
Phones are personal preference. Even still, you can dress up the ugly girl all you want with "features", it won't make me want it.
If it wasn't made of plastic and didn't feel like it, then we could talk UX. Until then I have no reason to even start looking elsewhere.
If you did a "which phone is better built/feels more "premium"" comparison between the iPhone and the entire Android lineup SGS3 included, it would be no contest. Apple knows that counts. Samsung doesn't .
Vain? Yep. But last I checked, the pretty girls in reality usually get preferential treatment. People hate that I'm right, but the SGS3 in my mind is the equivalent of the pretty girls ugly cousin (who's a bit portly, but might know a few more useless facts and have a bit more "storage space")...
Yippee!
Love Samsung fanboys. They broke some major patent laws that is why they owe $1 billion. Not like apple is losing these major patent fights. When you make something revolutionary and it gets completely stolen and turned into a plastic toy let me know, I bet you would sue too. Btw I've given the s2 and s3 a shot. Both got returned for being so crappy. Granted its androids slow choppy OS that is responsible for that but the screen is garbage too not even close to the retina resolution and has all kinds of light leakage just showing the cheap junk they put out and android fan clubbers buy then migrate to macrumors to talk about how jealous they are that they got locked in for 2 more years and can't get an iPhone 5. Honestly more android fan clubbers on here than apple these days. Anyways for someone who's given 2 android phones and 1 tablet a chance, I will never again make those mistakes. iOS is far superior to Android and the amazing design and quality of the iPhone is years ahead of any android phone.
(did I mention the s3 had a crooked home button that kept getting stuck, REALLY good job with the design.)
Also is it not obvious to everyone here that samsung is extremely worried about the iPhone 5? They are putting an iPhone in all their new ads which is almost just a pathetic feeling for them. Apple will make some badass commericals about their device and iOS and sell more iphone 5s the first quarter than s3's the entire year. I don't think apple minds free advertising at all the s3 looks like my pocket pc from 2001 compared to the awesome as hell new iPhone. They should be worried they never could get close to competing with apple (unless it's the last quarter of an old device compared to their brand new device, "WOO WE DID IT FOR ONE QUARTER TEAM") but also gave them $1 billion for using their designs to sell our products... Not much of a win. Samsung has been unable to successfully sell the number of s3s they wanted, the new nexus phone I'm sure will get announced in like a day and be the new cool thing that they will lose more money on, and then they gave apple $1 billion dollars... I'm sure they are a really solid company now. Keep apple happy because if they quit letting you make some of their hardware you might go under.
Steal them? Or provide other options? There is nothing wrong with a person who doesn't want an iPhone.
I agree, but a person who doesn't want an iPhone wouldn't need to see a list of iPhone features compared with GS3 features. They're going for iPhone customers here.
<cough>Apple<cough>E-Book<cough>price-fixing.<cough>Department of Justice.
Keep Apple high and mighty. Let them continue to choke off and tie up supplier channels. Yep, good for everybody (especially us lowly consumers).
You guys crack me up.
Bill, your Krazy.
Going to need to disagree. I don't see it.
Same question... Have you used a GS3 with Jelly Bean?
In the interest of balance and neutrality, I've created the final version of this table to show how pointless this fanboy war really is.
I tried to find more features for the iPhone, so I found they came out roughly equal. I also added metric conversions to the measurements, and removed all mentions of 'HD' from both. I took away minor features like 'tilt to zoom' from the Galaxy, because I'm sure the iPhone has plenty of those too. I also included the most important (to some people) feature. And yes, you can play Angry Birds on both.
Feel free to share this around the internet.
I tried to find more features for the iPhone, so I found they came out roughly equal. I also added metric conversions to the measurements, and removed all mentions of 'HD' from both. I took away minor features like 'tilt to zoom' from the Galaxy, because I'm sure the iPhone has plenty of those too. I also included the most important (to some people) feature. And yes, you can play Angry Birds on both.
Feel free to share this around the internet.
Same question... Have you used a GS3 with Jelly Bean?
Jelly Bean is a joke. Still choppy as hell and still has the same flaws as old versions. "Hey fan clubbers jelly bean is faster and smoother..." go use it and tell me how big of a lie that is. iOS is fast and smooth, jelly bean is like iOS 4 on an iPhone 3G. Grats.
You are just making yourself sound like a fool. We all have access to a million YouTube videos that prove you wrong. I suggest taking your propaganda to a non digital format.
It's beyond a religion...its a borderline cult at this point
very disturbing...its obvious some people here are severely unhinged
this ad raised the ire of many Apple devotees and I think its wonderful
One significant feature of the iPhone 5 is missing here, it would blow at least 75% of those Samsung features (or gestures, if you like) away. iPhone has 720p front facing camera, just like the SIII but Samsung forgot to mention it. And also video calling over 3G.
But hey, it's butthurt Samsung we're talking about, so...
Lol. Just because a video loads just as fast or what ever you wanna compare on youtube go use an iPad for a month then use a Nexus 7 and tell me jelly bean isn't choppy. Take your never used an iOS device knowledge back to the YouTube page and watch your one sided fan clubber videos. I wanted android to be good, it's not. End of story.
im in the same boat. switch to verizon after being with att for 15 years but the last year i saw full siginal in the middle of town and nothing happening and after calling att several times over the past year i switched to verizon. i got the gs3 to use while waiting for ip5 and the only thing im not happy with is the voice/data issue which i think is more of an agreement att made with apple if truth be known. im cant see why apple wouldnt include an extra antenna even if it added weight or size, i mean how much more could it had added
yup technically the iPhone is never the top dig but in complete package and smoother reliable performance iPhone always wins...
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S3 is the best phone for apple haters...
Samsung is so petty.
Apple has plenty of features that Samsung/Google don't mention in that ad, such as iCloud, which is FAR more integrated and reliable than Google.
Plus, "tilt to zoom", are you kidding me?
******** ad, and it shouldn't take a genius to realize that
So your only defense is iCloud... really? Come on. Anything else? G-mail is very reliable, thank you very much and does the same things iCloud can do. Except "Find my iPhone" but that's because they don't have iPhones LOL (Oh by the way, I have an iPhone but I'm going to switch to Android)
This Ad literally made my day. I'm sorry to all out there offended but Apple did the exact same thing with the Mac vs Pc Ads they ran a long time ago. Calm your horses y'all.
Hard to be that offended when it's a newspaper ad....... Samsung gave up so much money they can't afford a real ad spot? Haha we are probably amongst the select few to even see this... Elderly people who still get the paper probably really pay attention to that ad.
I know that the cell providers in the US have a strong grip over what they allow on their networks but video calling using the cell network has been available for years and years in most other parts of the world.
Sony Ericsson and Nokia had these features in their phones as far back as 2006, which is why a feature like facetime (even now that it works over 3G - when Apple released it and said it was a wi-fi-feature only I was truly amazed at how that limited the use) gets deservedly no to little attention at all in markets outside the US. Why? Because video calling on a cell phone is in reality old news indeed.
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Hard to be that offended when it's a newspaper ad....... Samsung gave up so much money they can't afford a real ad spot? Haha we are probably amongst the select few to even see this... Elderly people who still get the paper probably really pay attention to that ad.