“Say what you want about Apple’s ambitious Your Verse campaign for the iPad Air, but one thing you won’t see in it is any device from any competitor,” Rene Ritchie writes for iMore.
“Like all of Apple’s ads of late, it focuses exclusively on showing us what we can do with the technology in our hands, from the tops of mountains to the bottom of the sea. Samsung, on the other hand… well… where to begin?” Ritchie writes. “I realize rewarding negative attention seeking just reaffirms that kind of marketing model, but I also realize media needs to not just be consumed but digested.”
“Time was AMOLED had tons of compromises, including goofy pentile subpixels on large displays, overblown saturation, and decreased lifespan of blue elements. The technology has come a long way since then,” Ritchie writes. “However, Apple obviously doesn’t think it’s come far enough to be deployed at iPad scale yet. Instead, they’re sticking with in-plane switching LCD with LED backlight, a whopping 62% of which were reportedly manufactured by… wait for it… Samsung.”
Read more, and see the ads, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: May the wall of pain coming Samsung’s way be excruciating and all-emcompassing.
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Re MDN take: The collapse of Assmung would surely bring the collapse of S. Korea, and given their psycho-douche neighbor to the north, US courts will try every way they know to prevent that from happening.
Assmung: BEST YET! I take my hat off to you sir.
Back to the subject: I see no reason for, or impending DEATH and DOOM for Samsung. They have their role as providers of cheap knockoff wannabe stuff. There will always be a market for such things. Occasionally I’ve even seen them invent or innovate a thing or two.
But kicking BungBang in the nodules to the point of rupture is well deserved and justice with regard to their ripoff of all things Apple they can lay their hands upon.
Samsung is soooo screwed, and it’s already ongoing. But if SackSmashed is going to drop dead, it will be at their own hand.
Buy the kid his own iPad. Maybe then he’ll make something of himself.
I’ve been reading MDN for years and recommending this site to lots of people. For the past several months, every time I click on a story to read, especially on my iphone, I get 1/3 of the way through reading an article and then a video auto loads taking over my whole screen, or I get taken to another blank page, and then my App Store opens up to some random game. Clicking back to the story results in the same exact thing happening.
This kind of intrusive, over-the-top advertising pisses me off, and I’m done with this site. It’s a shame as I’ve been a big fan, but today when it happened 7 times in a row (including several times while trying to leave this comment) was the last straw.
You’ve lost a reader.
I thought it was just me. I hadn’t seen anyone else mention it so I assumed it was an isolated problem.
They haven’t lost me yet but heavens to betsy, I sure wish MDN would open some kind of donations portal to help keep the site running so they could scale back some of this insanity.
I’ve mentioned it a few times. This site is worse than AOL, HuffPost, Google… hell, even porn sites don’t barrage you with so many videos (so I’ve heard). It truly is OBSCENE.
Funny you should bring up porn, because, just to add my my voice to the growing discontent, as well as being booted out to the App store, the other day when reading an article, after a few seconds a new page opened in Safari and loaded up Youporn. Intrusive adverts are one thing, but that is simply ludicrous.
Not so much a problem for me, but not so good if it happens to someone younger/more sensitive. Tread carefully, MDN. Any time you’d like to address all of this, or, even better, PUT A STOP TO IT, that’d be fantastic. If it’s the advertiser you’re with that’s doing this, maybe it’s time to find a new one…
Likewise! I also thought it was just me. Now I know it’s not, I’ll keep away from MDN from now on, this is a pain in the a$$.
Just read the web version at http://www.macdailynews.com, rather than use the app. Why in hell would you use an app when the web version is free, runs fast, has no pop up video ads and still lets you easily make comments as I am doing now?
Not everything has to be done from an app. The web still works, why not use it?
It’s the web version that’s an ad ridden piece of poop, the app is great… And yes I’m commenting from the app.
If only Apple would expand iAd to the web…
What web version? They used to have a mobile version, but when I go to MDN on my iPhone these days, it just loads the desktop site.
As for the app, I’ve considered trying it several times, but it’s one of the poorest reviewed apps of its type I’ve seen on the store.
I’ll stick to reading MDN on my Mac and work PC, where I can run you-know-what and block the barrage of ads. (I have to call it “you-know-what”, because the last time I mentioned it by name, my post was diverted to some moderation queue and never posted.)
Gotta love this site. Been reading it for ten years now, but some times I think the only thing keeping me around is inertia.
——RM
A-D-B-l-o-c-k- f-o-r- i-O_S
EXACTLY! You can’t spell it normally on this site or it will get a “moderated” hold on it since the powers that be don’t want you to know about something you already know about. Works great in OS X too.
I know “Perry” won’t be reading this…
Why resort to public shaming / whining before taking the time to email?
It would be way more effective. I’m pretty sure MDN has made adjustments before from my observations.
… do you treat all of your relationships that way?
“This kind of intrusive, over-the-top advertising pisses me off, and I’m done with this site. It’s a shame as I’ve been a big fan, but today when it happened 7 times in a row (including several times while trying to leave this comment) was the last straw.”
Please. Who cares.
Headline:
Dude Changes His Reading Habits, Decides To Whine About It
If you’re on iPhone or iPad just use the free MDN app. You only get well behaved iAds there.
I never read MDN on the web.
I use the app. I don’t even notice the ads hardly a bit. Now if I can just figure out how to load my avatar…
I’m with you…
Wow…I think that my post was filtered and not posted. Just in case, the gist of it was “use Safari extensions.”
A-d-B-l-o-c-k
G-h-o-s-t-e-r-y
D-o-N-o-t-T-r-a-c-k-M-e
G-o-o-g-l-e D-i-s-c-o-n-n-e-c-t
G-o-o-g-l-e A-n-a-l-y-t-i-c-s
The collapse of Korea would be most welcome. They are nothing but serial copiers of the real innovators of the world the US and Europe. The world has enough counterfeiters.
Good things as well as bad in South Korea and any other industrialized country. Be more specific instead of carpet bombing from the armchair.
I wonder if joe blo also wants the collapse of the US, since MS and Google have done plenty of counterfeiting.
“My comment is awaiting moderation” Since bloody when was there moderation on this forum.
Also, the headline seems to not follow any of the article content, at least until we click away, one presumes.
More damn dung from Samsung™
LMAO! As I was reading Perry’s comment, a FarmVille ad popped out in my screen! I hit cancel and after 10 sec it appears again.. And again…and again..
In the past few days, I’ve been being redirected to the AppStore thinking maybe I’ve been hitting something on the screen lol
Glad I’m not the only one. It kept taking me to the fucking app store. Damn. These. Ads.
I think it’s sad that advertisers don’t realize that a NEGATIVE ad hit is worse than NO hit. Advertisers should be requiring that sites don’t behave this way.
What a mess that screen looks and totally impractical in use in terms of what they are trying to claim as an advantage. Desperate.
Honestly this is silly. Samsung is merely the leading Android device maker. If Samsung goes away, then some other Android maker – or some combination of such makers – will take their place. The deal is not Samsung but Android, and Android will always be viable for people who cannot afford or for some reason do not want an Apple phone or tablet (plus there are actually lots of people who simply like Android).
You can mock Samsung and South Korea all you want, but the biggest threat to Samsung in the Android space is Chinese manufacturers Xiaomi and Lenovo. I don’t see what trading South Korea for China gets the Apple community. Meanwhile, Samsung is never going to go bankrupt. They are still among the best company in the world for making hardware components, so much so that Apple is one of their leading customers. Samsung just made a breakthrough in SSD design, for example, that will be in tons of devices, including those by Apple, 3-4 years from now. Not to mention Samsung still makes more ho-hum devices like refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, TVs etc. … it will not be very hard to make those appliances smart by putting Android or Tizen on them.
Basically, Samsung falling flat on their faces in their few product lines in which they compete with Apple will still leave them being the massive, successful global company that they were before smart mobile devices were invented in the first place. But it would allow the companies that are actually better at making Android phones and tablets (i.e. LG, HTC, Asus, Xiaomi and lately even Sony, whose last 3 phones have been great and they are now coming out with a very good tablet) to stop being crushed by Samsung’s advertising budget.
Bottom line: rooting for Samsung to fail isn’t going to happen because Samsung never needed the mobile business to be a huge, profitable successful company (with Apple as one of their main clients) to begin with. And misdirecting your rage at Android towards Samsung is even dumber, because take Samsung out of the picture and the smaller companies that are more competent and innovative will simply take Samsung’s place. If Xiaomi in particular – who makes excellent phones and tablets – is able to find a US carrier and enter the market with Android L enabled devices in 2015 or 2016, that will be a game-changer, Samsung or no Samsung. That’s the irony: Samsung is probably one of the worst Android OEMs, which is why Google did not go to them to make their last 2 Nexus devices (they went to Asus and LG instead, and the latest LG Nexus tablet is outstanding, right down to its 64 bit hardware). Their failure would only make Android stronger, so it would behoove you to root for Samsung to keep going and dominating even more of the Android space instead of bleeding market share to Xiaomi, Lenovo, Sony and Huwei as they have been in Asia and India and will soon be in America. The Android space is trending away from the high end devices like the Galaxy line and towards mid-range unlocked devices that Sony and Lenovo are specializing in. Samsung has been slow to adapt, and it could cause them real trouble over the next 2-3 years. But again, as the Sony and Lenovo phones are actually BETTER than the Samsung phones, trouble for Samsung does not necessarily mean good news for Apple. Instead, it could very well mean the opposite.