“Unsurprisingly, Samsung has come out with anti-iPhone 6 ads, and it happened remarkably soon after the phone’s official announcement,” Chris Smith writes for BGR. “But unlike previous Samsung hits at Apple, which were often pretty funny or at least somewhat clever, the new ads are just terrible.”
“The company is taking shots at everything Apple announced including the bigger iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, and even Apple’s live-streaming problems — but hilarious isn’t a word to describe any of the new spots,” Smith writes. “What’s interesting is that Samsung isn’t making fun of Apple customers anymore, which was a strange approach anyway to convince iPhone fans to switch to the next big thing in previous years, but instead it’s making fun of Apple Genius employees, who are supposedly making fun of their own products.”
Smith writes, “Furthermore, Samsung is making fun of Apple’s big screen devices and wearables, while at the same time promoting its own devices that were unveiled just days ago and happen to be… big screen devices and wearables.”
MacDailyNews Take: To be clear, Samsung peddles significantly inferior big screen devices and wearables.
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MacDailyNews Take: If they’re down to criticizing live streaming of an event and promoting split-screen multitasking and freakin’ styluses, they’re massively screwed and they know it.
Also, it takes a special kind of tone-deafness to produce such ads when, without the ads’ target, Samsung Electronics’ smartphones, tablets, and stupidwatches (currently headed back the drawing board, patents and trade dress be damned) wouldn’t even exist.
Samsung, your desperation is showing and it’s at least as unbecoming as your slavish copycat thievery.
They seem to be wasting an awful lot of money on inconsequential stuff. It’s certainly not going to stop consumers from buying Apple products.
These ads have to have been created longer ago than the last two days: casting, scripts, etc. It’s almost as if Samsung knew Apple would have streaming issues. I wonder have many DoS attacks Apple had to fend off during that broadcast; I bet the attacks could be traced to Korea…
The only account I read (and I wasn’t searching and didn’t keep looking) said the DDoS was coming from Brazil. It was real, if you believe the sole source…
Well, actually, the stylus one was very compelling to me. I can’t tell you how many times I wished I had a stylus for my iPhone.
Oh, wait. Yes I can. None.
What a waste of bandwidth and I think they tried to reverse engineer the music from the PC vs Mac commercials. Pathetique!
Um, excuse me – Samsung doesn’t have any drawing boards in their corporation, just replicators – And not very good ones at that, because even copying other’s works they still can’t get it right.