Samsung’s “newest Korean ad, however, seems to take cues from Apple’s own advertising style, focusing on a more emotional connection with the viewer,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “The ad depicts a father and daughter playing with a Galaxy Tab in a sequence of shots reminiscent of Apple’s own iPad ads. The voice over says (rough translation): ‘You try to have fun with me, you try to win against me, you ask me millions of questions, you sit on my lap, you want to stay beside me all the time, strangely, when I stay with you time passes very quickly. This is a precious time.'”
“Apple’s own ads have long followed a similar style, focusing on experience than specs: We’ll Always, Love, and Learn,” Kim reports. “While Apple doesn’t have an exclusive claim to this style of ad, it’s just shows how Samsung is trying to position their products comparably to Apple.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: A stolen product marketed with a stolen ad. Samsung knows no shame.
Regardless of glacial and fallible courts and judges, we consumers can swiftly exact a measure of justice on our own:
Boycott Samsung. We no longer buy Samsung-branded products and advise our millions of readers worldwide to also avoid purchasing Samsung-branded products until they cease stealing Apple’s patented IP.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Andrew W.” for the heads up.]
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MDN: but the sheep always follow…
Un Fckin’ BELIEVABLE. There is no justice in this world anymore. We as Americans wonder why this nation is in it current state of disarray? China runs it DUH. No wonder China laughs @ America. It’s A JOKE!
The only saving grace, is the fact that AAPL is an American icon that has left a legacy that will forever be remembered as American innovation due to the wonderful quarks of one aka. Steven Paul Jobs. Born in America.
more than you can say about our president!
We already knew that the Force was strong in Steve Jobs.
Also, Hawaii is the 50th state of the U.S.
Too bad, Obama thinks it’s the 57th.
Uh, no.
+1
Congratulations, GizmoDan. You win the prize for insipid twit of the day!
New rumor: SDN, Samsung Daily News.
Samsung is a Korean company, not Chinese.
Asians. Same method of operation. We don’t invent, we copy, copy, copy!
Nintendo, a Japanese (and thus, obviously, Asian) technology company, are world-renowned for bucking tends, innovating, and changing the market. Not every company in the vast continent that is Asia operates like Samsung.
And isn’t your name/avatar a reference to Ninja Scroll, the acclaimed *Asian* anime film?
*Sigh…*
Right. Anime something close to being original genre from Asian culture. Not copied from the good old USA. *sigh…*
Most white cannot differentiate Asians and they usually identify all bad things to China and Chinese. One more time, Samsung is own by Koreans!!
Other than Samsung copying from Apple, what about Hyundai copying from Mercedes Benz and Honda?
Every car company in the world has at some time copied from another you dumbass.
And lets not forget, Apple ripped off the entire i-Product naming system.
iAudio CW100 mp3 player came out a full year before the iPod. Then Apple has the gall to call them copycat. That is Apple.
It’s a shame I bought my Samsung TV over a year ago before I realized how shitty a company they were (for copying everything). I can honestly say, Samsung will not see another *direct* dollar from me. Sadly, they still get my money anyway, as long as Apple still uses them for some parts.
Not only that…
They are worse than you know. Bought a large screen tv from them and 1 year and 20 days it dies. Called the local tech people and they came out and found the problem and even had the specific small single parts that they needed….. strangely. How did they know….
Turns out that Samsung used 10 volt caps in a 15 volt ps. They overheated and died one year into use. THe repair guy had the exact same caps but in 25 volt level. Good to go. $275 for the 1 hour visit. He knew that they used substandard parts. I called Samsung and they just gave me the run around and then stopped answering the phone. Never buying from them again. Bad design or mfging, either way,,,,, they knew there was a problem and did not care to fix.
Crappy customer service…. er wait….. NO CUSTOMER service.
Just a thought
Car makers, among others, have copied each other for years.
It was inevitable that the competition wake up and copy the leader. It’s no longer speeds & feeds.
Since Apple was the first, it is possible that people we see the Samsung ad and think it’s an Apple ad. So maybe there is justice after all.
Does the boycott include all those Apple products with Samsung parts and chips in them like the iPhone and iPad?
No
then whats the point of the boycott if your only boycotting half of the company, its like in montgomery and they only boycotted half of the bus routes, say the ones that inconvenienced them less, it would have been a failed boycott, just like your failed boycott of samsung. sometimes you isheep crack me up
as if a company losing half its biz isn’t an effective boycott
To hurt them, not Apple.
It’s telling that some if not all of the Galaxy tab screen shots were digitally recreated where as the iPad ones are just shots of people using it.
Not to defend Samsung, but this is a pretty typical looking brand ad. I’m still not buying their products because copying the hardware is enough. These ads aren’t anything groundbreaking though.
Why are most of the actors Caucasian? And most of the printed text English? In a Korean ad?
I was wondering the same thing. Where are the Koreans in the Ad?
After dealing with Asian companies for the better part of my career, I think I can offer you an explanation.
In Korea, and most Asian countries, they associate Caucasin with “higher class”, “desirable”, “better quality”, “expensive” … etc and that’s why you will see tons of Caucasin (& some well known American movie stars) in ads shown in Asia.
In China, Chinese companies are known to hire Caucasin off the street and appear in their corporate function just to make their companies more appealing and desirable.
That is so darn funny. Speaks volumes for them. Inferior, that their own race is not good enough for money? They should use rich popular asians for their ad’s instead. Where are their brain cells?
That’ll be Caucasian, then.
Yea he is right. Koreans love to die their hair colors like caucasians and try to keep their skin light when possible by avoiding extended periods in the sun or using umbrellas to block the sun.
Now this about this. If white/ lighter skin is seen as higher class and desirable what does that mean for black/ darker skin?
just a little fun fact, it the Philippines light skin is associated with the high class and dark skin is associated with the lower class because they would spend most of the day out in the fields picking rice or tending their livestock, so women like to keep to their skin light to appear of a higher class
Much like the Japanese, the Koreans think that they are Caucasians.
Samsung is run by bunch of flat-face Koreans . Samsung has no shame by constantly copying Apple products’ design, and, now, Apple’s ad too.
It’s time for all of us to take matter to our own hands by boycott Samsung products.
Hey Samsung, you are bunch of flat-face asshole and I truely hope that North Korea will target bomb the shit out of Samsung HQ and kill every single Samsung employee and executive.
“Flat-faced”??
Wow — it’s nice that racists don’t feel intimidated these days. Just come right and tell us how you REALLY feel!
Hey, I’m no fan of their corporate strategy, but wishing all their employees dead? Nice.
Hope that was just some seriously fucked-up auto-correct happening in that post. Can’t you hate Samsung’s policy without hating a whole people?
iRacist-jerkoff says:
I hate all you slightly different skin toned monkeys, all you differently facial featured having smelly baboons, and all you living in other parts of the world and different religion practicing apes!
Now excuse me, I need to go down to the dry cleaner to pick up my sheets from some slant eyed flat faces.
Who dry-cleans their sheets? kkk. Oh. OK.
yeah, it’s a weak knock-off of Apple’s ads. and just like Samsung’s Galaxy it has a real plastic feel too. herky-jerky scene cuts and obviously feigned exaggerated emotions.
Apple’s ads are certainly all staged too. but they’re smooth, peaceful even. the actors look real, and the kids’ reactions look genuine.
it’s top notch pro work vs. second-rate wannabes. that’s the story of Apple vs. Samsung.
How much longer will it be before Samsung changes their name to Snapple?
A samsung boycott is the only action that will work. Why should Americans be buying Korean products when there’s are better products from apple anyhow!
Even the kid under the blanket, jeez!
Saw a newspaper ad for Samsung TVs, with a mock-up screen image of an orange and white clownfish amidst green anemone. You know, like the default on the very first iPhone.
Thermonuclear war is the only appropriate response.
30 Rock knew way back when.
30 seconds in.
LOLOL!!!
SameSung. Exactly.
Maybe Samsung will release a Santa Claus ad now.
I just bought a 60″ HDTV by Sharp. I didn’t even consider Samsung TVs because of their continued practice of ripping off Apple.
As a long-time AAPL stockholder, I feel it’s my duty to put my money where my mouth is…though in this case, I guess it’s putting my money where my money is. 🙂
Boycott Samsung, LG, Hyundai, Kia, Daewoo and Dahon bicycles.
Samsung and LG brands are also threatening the survival of many good old American appliances/computer brand names such as GE, Maytag, Whirlpool, Jennair, HP, etc. I went to a Best buy today and was shocked enough to see Samsung and LG fridges and stoves occupied the entire store displays. What is happening to all the great and reliable US products??
Dig in deep Samsung. The more you’re stuck in the mire of plagiarism the easier to grab your head and rip it off. Darn, it’s going to hurt you REAL bad. 😆
samsung, you are soooo screwed
Every considered originality? Innovation? Creativity? No speak the English?
I’m really happy with my LG LED LCD TV which I bought to use with Apple TV and possibly with a blue ray DVD. What I like about the LG model is that there are very few bells and whistles but the picture is GREAT, so it’s good to use as a component because it doesn’t try do do EVERYTHING like the Samsung models that have a lot of digital crapware to bloat their price built in.
Gee…did you know that LG and Samsung are owned by the same group of people?? Korean corporations are “state owned and run” by the same family.
That company is blatantly SHAMELESS !!!!!!
Apple fanbois are a pack of hypocrites. Apple clearly ripped of Androids notification system, launching Apps from the lock screen, tweet from anywhere, tabbed browsing and desktop/laptop freedom. In 2010 Steve Jobs said “In multitasking, if you see a task manager… they blew it.” guess what Apple blew it.
Talk about the pot calling the Kettle black.
The real question is why haven’t Apple gone after design rights for the actual look of iOS rather than just the look of the iPad. Maybe the reason is Apples so called design actually looks an awful lot like the LG Prada released a year before the iPhone. Everyone knows what happened with the GUI and mouse when Apple claimed they invented those also. Even more they have just applied for a patent for face unlock. I wonder where they stole that idea from.
Apple are patenting a version that *doesn’t* mistake photos for people. It’s a pretty big deal. Are we done here?
Why cant u just admit that Apple are now copying Android?
Actually, I think a lot of the interface tweaks implemented in both iOS and Android have their origins in the jailbreak scene. And notifications or not, there would *be* no Android without iOS.
Enjoy the ad.
Android existed before iOS. It was started in 2003.
That’s right, Android existed then. And it looked like this: http://www.karthikk.net/2011/10/how-android-looked-before-and-after-apples-ios/ . Thanks though, it’s been fun…
I like how Apple evangelists always take photos of the expanded application tray in Android and post it like it’s proof of copying iOS… clearly because it has icons on a screen? Think Palm had that one covered well before either company decided to get in the phone business. Are they paying royalties? The thing to notice in the “article” is that there is a background on the homescreen. Apple didn’t “innovate” this until iOS4 by which time everyone else in the mobile world had had this ability for several years (even on cheap-as-hell “dumb-phones.”) Until then Apple eaters were like: “Oh, it’s not a good idea! Think of the clutter!” When Apple finally came around, Oh, it’s actually best thing ever! And now you can get a “white one” too! Pathetic.
Actually that pretty close to Android 0.9 which I had running on my old htc tytn II. Icons at the bottom, notification bar at the top, Icons and widgets in between. Pretty close to Android today.
None of the features that Apple clearly copied from Android such as the notification system came from the modding communities.
Does Samsung have any plans to copy Apple’s sales numbers or profit margins?
Thanks, all, for the flame war. Quite entertaining.
It is said chimpanzees learn behaviors through observation and imitation and then teach these traits to other chimpanzees.