“Samsung, you rascal,” Ken Segall writes for Observatory. “I thought you’d unloaded all your anti-iPhone 6 ammunition with that spate of bad ads a few days ago. Yet here you are, trying another tack.”
“This time, rather than going with the unfunny comedy approach, you’re basically presenting your case to the jury. You had the big screen first and you can prove it,” Segall writes. “Okay. Unfortunately, you’re overlooking one little detail: nobody gives a hoot.”
“Most people care about the choices right in front of them. Today. They look at price, quality, design and reliability. Who came first isn’t exactly #1 on their priority list. Of this you should be thankful,” Segall writes. “Otherwise, iPhones would own 100% of the smartphone market.”
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Wasn’t the Dell Streak 5 the first Phablet? I recall reading a cnet(?) review and people were laughing at the size.
I do remember it was a huge failure but I figured because it was just a poorly made product geared strictly for the U.S. user. Maybe they should have marketed overseas and could have had a successful product. It’s history now.
I recall that at the time the iPhone came out, most companies were concentrating on miniaturization. I was a bit taken aback by the size of the phone. It was pretty big compared to the competition. I think the Dell was just too much, too soon.
Wow, hard to believe they are actually spending money on these ads.
Could they be trading Galaxy “whatever’s” for ad time?
Samsung is having a “nervous breakdown,” because it can no longer use the HUGE screen as a gimmick to sell their phones. Even before Apple’s new iPhones, everyone else was “going large” too, so there was no longer any “novelty” value in the extra-large screen. Now, the customer’s decision is based on quality of the product and user experience, and Samsung knows it can’t compete. It’s back to the “touching phones” gimmick, I guess…
You know thermal nuclear doesn’t look like that.. It’s a lot brighter!!!! With something that irritates the skin, dries the mouth, and well, puts a lot of vapor in your face.
What you are seeing, is the image with your eyes closed.
What I want to see, is this up close, as not to miss anything.
Melt down…. Commence.
“Stay hungry, stay foolish!”
All Samedung is accomplishing is pacifying the pathetic Apple Haters that are currently on a downward spiral to Oblivion. lol
So true. The high-end is moving straight on over to Apple, and Samsung’s small profits in the industry will quickly move to losses. Apple’s share of the industry’s profits will be 100% as it always should have been!
“Samdung”, yeah we had a big screen first and ours comes with a really neat stylist.
blahhhhhh!!!!
You get someone to do your hair with the purchase of a Samsung phone? Looks like I picked the wrong time to go bald.
Samsung has a funny definition of innovation. A large screen is not an innovation, it’s a feature. TouchID is an innovation, a swipe fingerprint reader is a feature other companies have abandoned. The A7 was innovation, whatever Samsung uses is off-the-shelf tech. Innovation isn’t in Samsung’s DNA, imitation is.
Hold on. I clearly remember when the A7 was introduced people were saying computers had 64-bit processors a long time ago so the A7 was not considered innovative but merely marketing hype. The Motorola Atrix already had a fingerprint reader a couple of years back. It didn’t work well after the reader got worn down and there was little support. However Apple’s Touch ID was not considered innovation, either, but just a copy of something Motorola did.
I have yet to find out what the smartphone industry actually does consider innovation. I hope they’re not expecting fuel cells and foldable displays as innovation. No one actually really defines what would be innovation except that they simply say Apple doesn’t have it. My idea of innovation in a smartphone would be something like a 50% increase of battery life in the same size smartphone but I’m not actually expecting anything like that to happen because I understand there are certain limits to today’s technology and consumer pricing. Apple is not an aerospace firm but these pundits think Apple can break all sorts of barriers for a device that will beat rival devices by a factor of 2 or something. Not likely. Apple is going to beat rivals by using subtle, refined means and that’s really good enough to satisfy consumers.
We’re going to continue hearing how the iPhone is behind because Android devices are going to use octa-core processors clocked really high, high megapixel count cameras and ultra high-density displays that may or may not serve any real purpose to users. In other words Android smartphones will lead in the race for obvious specs and Apple will not bother to compete because Apple has no need to.
There’s a difference between doing something first and doing something right. The A7 was far from marketing hyperbole, see: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review and look at the benchmark results and the explanation of the benefits of 64 vs 32 other than RAM access. Also note that the A7 is using 2 cores at a slow 1.3GHz vs the competition using 4 cores at much faster speeds. Also note that the entire OS and all first party apps were 64 bit at the time of introduction.
I recall the Atrix and its failure, all fingerprint readers of the time had the same limitations and used the same type of swipe technology: a swipe at the same direction and speed at which the fingerprint was recorded.
TouchID uses a different technology and can read fingerprints with just a touch and at any angle. That’s why the Samsung S5’s fingerprint reader was such a joke. They panicked and used the same technology Motorola used and discarded 4 years earlier.
Innovation was the retina display, touch screen with gestures, a curated app store. Improvements on innovation aren’t innovation. Sometimes they’re appreciated. sometimes they’re just there to sound good. For instance, who needs a 4K display on a handheld device?
I agree, an ultra high capacity power source would be a great innovation, so would a flexible screen / phone. Samsung acts like a large screen phone is the greatest innovation since icons and touch screen.
The big thing Samsung had was it’s big screen. Now that’s gone we can talk about 64bit, kill switch, safe fingerprint scanners that work, a closed secure OS (Knox) the stuff Apple is ahead on. Then there is the laughable removable battery. You have to pay for a battery and chager that only work with that model. You get a Jucebox for half the cost and use it on anything. The original reason for the Note was because Android had to be conected to a phone and could not work on a screen over 5.5″ when the iPad came out. It was the best way they could copy a iPad.
Samsung complaining about Apple copying their large screen size idea??? Really.
So, why don’t they sue Apple for copying?
Samsung is running out of tech to copy. Next?
Samsung doesn’t have the creativity to be innovative nor have the class to make a real premium product. In a few years they’ll be replaced by Chinese companies as the premier Android builders. Samsung is realizing this and is just being cranky about it.
Pfffft.
Samsung is one creepy company — from the blatant ripoff of the iPhone, to their b.s. ads and hired FUD guns. And as if “bigger” is an innovation… give me a break. I would say they are due a healthy dose of Karma.
Kinda like MSFT, in some ways, but not as long a run, I think.
I can’t believe how unprofessional these ads are. It’s as if someone is just reading a comment from a fandroid blog
Apple also showed us no hoots if you’re first with a relevant patent.
Go ahead, keep your ads focused on iPhone 6 Plus. Apple welcomes free advertisement.
Total meltdown at CNET/ZDNET from iHaters! LOL. Why do these guys work so hard to support Samsung? I don’t get it. That company has a record of corruption and theft a mile long. lol
I’m sure there are some paid astroturfers there trying to hold the line amongst the real apple haters.
Samsung is seriously wasting money with those ads. They’re not going to negatively affect iPhone 6 sales even a tiny bit. Apple is going to sell every iPhone 6 it makes and that’s all there is to it. More retail stores, more carriers, Apple Pay, compatibility with the coming AppleWatch, etc. will push iPhone 6 sales ever higher.
Steve Jobs MultiTouch smartphone The iPhone came out before Samsung who was too busy slavishly copying the Moto FlipFone & Blacberry chiclet keys phones. P.S.: You’re welcome Sandroid.
They didn’t just want a bigger screen – they wanted a bigger screen from Apple.
If Samsung created a 60 inch smart phone – it would still be from Samsung.
Samsung’s ads are the equivalent of last resort name calling. A sign of low life corporate DNA.
Gee who knew the iPhone 6/6plus would be such a huge success…………./s
Gotta suck to be in Samdungs boardroom these days……!
Samsung is fearful of the payment system.
This is something that Samsung will try to copy, but will require time and effort. None of which will help sales and likely will hurt the sales figures even more than projected.
The larger screen directly competes will there stable product and profit zones. Basically, put pressure on there stock and in the world view – loss of face.
Remember, they had said they had better designers then even Ives. Well, these designs make the current crop of copies look pretty bad. Even there most advanced designs.
Yup, you can say Samsung was running scared and now the nervous breakdown has commenced. They have realized they underestimated Apple’s capbility and the ability to move away from there manufacturing hold. This must be a nightmare for Samsung.
“But but but but but but…. We offer the truly revolutionary Randroid™ – a guaranteed random version of Android with every phone!”
Just some more damn dung from Samsung!
Samsung ads are like the ever complaining date, while Apple ads are like rockstars. Android users: it’s time to dump the bitch and join the fun.