Samsung is continuing its approach of pushing anti-iPhone ads on its YouTube channel. Today’s ad showcases two friends, an iPhone user and a Galaxy S5 user, speaking to each other about the upcoming iPhone 6’s larger screen. “Dude, iPhone might be getting a bigger screen” excitedly states the iPhone user “That hasn’t happened yet?” slyly responds the Galaxy S5 user. Check out the full advertisement for yourself below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSDAjwKI8Wo
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This is a truly awful ad. So cocky and annoying. The 5S looks gigantic, too, in an almost negative light in my opinion. I don’t know – I think the Apple bashing does more harm than good. If you like this comment, please check out my 100% free iOS app, PaperBox. gopaperbox.com
Trying too hard to insult Apple.
How can you try to hard to point out the iPhones weaknesses? They practically self-identify.
By the way, how is Maps these days. Is Siri working yet? Well at least the phone is shiny!
Please elaborate. Maps is working fine but to whoever that hates it they can go download Google Maps app so the problem is solved… Siri has been working fine as well. It doesn’t have that bitchy attitude like it did before on iOS6 so you can’t really have a conversation with it. Siri gets smarter and more improved with every update. Yeah Google Voice might have more commands and stuff but when I had my Note 2 (which i loved it by the way) it wasn’t as responsive compared to Siri’s performance. You gotta be constructive with your criticism. Don’t be one of “those guys” that just pops out from under a rock yelling “iPhone sucks” like an angry midget.
Apparently trolls self-identify, too! Thanks for letting us know!
Maps is great! It’s a better UI than Google Maps and, in my area, the location information is more accurate than Google Maps. Siri works great too! And… My phone is shiny! =P
Apple Maps is much better for me than Google Maps, and I’m not even living in an American city but small European city. Siri works great for me as well. And yes, my phone is shiny and beautiful at the top of that! ;)
iphones suck, that’s why i use it! And its super shiny and i like shiny things. Oh and it’s shiny!
@herb02135go, C’mon. Have some decency.
Its not like we come to your work and slap the sailors cock out your mouth do we?
Both work fine. Neither have failed me once. Who told you they were broken? Samsung? You’ve been going to the competing company for advice on another company’s products?
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That just doesn’t sound very smart to me.
Pathetic, jealous troll alert.
Andre: I am not your mother.
Actually I’m pretty sure he mistook YOU for your mother. Go figger.
[SCNR]
I say it every time: They’re not going to get iPhone users to switch by being arrogant and making fun of them.
I think this is probably more about reaffirming Samsung owners’ purchases in order to try to preemptively stem the flow of conversions to iOS.
Exactly. They know better than anyone that iPhone users aren’t switching. This is designed to keep them looking “cool” to current (presumably quite young) Android users.
LOL keep telling yourself that.
from 2013 – 2014 ios Sales dropped 10% Android went up 10%. Apple is No Longer leading in the US where is the only place they were leading.
Agreed, they can probably sense the wave of people itching to dump them as soon as iPhone 6 hits the market, so they’re running these ads not realizing they’re hurting themselves in the long run, which makes me a very happy camper.
“According to a recent analysis by Xerox owned company WDS, Apple’s iPhone users have continued to remain the most loyal smartphone owners despite strong competition with Samsung for nearly seven years. The report shows that people who buy one iPhone are far more likely to purchase another than those who own a Samsung device (via MacDailyNews).”
“Analysis into device upgrade trends reveal that Apple dominates with 76% of customers who upgrade from iPhone to another iPhone while Samsung trails with just 58% retention.”
http://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/140331_wds_01.png
“Samsung Profits Plummet 24% on Slow Smartphone Sales”
On 7/8 “Samsung officially reported that their operating profit fell sharply by 24.4% due in large part to a slowdown in smartphone sales. Translation: the Galaxy S5 (brand new ‘flagship’ phone) was a dud and unable to beat Apple’s iPhone 5S (a 9-month old phone) at the high-end of the market while the Chinese phone makers ate away at their low to mid-range smartphone products.”
Wrong Roya. According to actual data, the iPhone is the #1 smartphone in the world and keeps growing.
Hahahaha Roya! How does it feel to be a shameless, woefully ignorant sheep!? How much fun is it to quote BOGUS statistics only to have the REAL numbers thrown back at you!? Are you enjoying that fantasy land?
I don’t know if it’s reaffirming so much as it is simply a direct reflection of the Samsung company culture attracting the type of people who respond to this drivel. Put another way, I don’t think Samsung intentionally released it for their current customers, it’s simply the only way they know how to compete.
The ad is clearly aimed at iphone users. And it’s getting a lot of attention.
Whenever I go into the local phone stores and check out the Samsung displays I ask people their current phone. 100% of the time they say puny iPhone.
Luke. Yea, they will. Samsung knows the competition better than you.
Uhh, apparently they don’t. And neither do you, dumbass.
Samsung please don’t make me laugh. The thing we’ve been waiting on has not been sitting under our noses this entire time and I have no problem waiting if it means the thing we’re waiting for will be optimised properly for larger screen displays and one handed use…
Thats all they have going for them. A bigger screen and higher phone specs. But everyone that knows technology knows it’s not all about that. ;)
Your joking right? it takes 5 or 6 steps to accomplish something on ios that takes 1 or 2 on Android. Android is a far more mature, robust and Stable OS, yes you heard me right Open Source is far more stable than Closed.
The average user don’t care if it’s open source or closed or tasks taking fewer clicks. All they want is the phone to work.
i own both Android and IOS devices. the Android on is buggy as hell. I’m not sure what your talking about when you say stable because it is far from it!!!
The user doesn’t care if it takes fewer clicks?
That’s funny, Tiger.
It’s like saying people prefer IBM punchcards.
Stop capitalizing Random Words.
Also, in what universe is Android more stable than iOS? It might be possible to argue that Android is currently “more robust” than iOS, but it is not as stable, let alone “far more” stable.
Wow, android is more stable than iOS. Keep telling yourself that till you believe
Usability is not determined by number of steps, especially when those steps are hidden under a third rate, copycat operating system that dramatically differs from device to device and from one year to another. Hand any iOS device to anyone from a toddler to a grandparent and they figure out how to use it in minutes. Try that with an Android device.
“Open Source is far more stable than Closed” you have no idea what you are talking about.
It takes “clicks” on Samsung?
Weird.
Anyway, the only thing Android can do faster is customize your screen and change dynamic wallpapers and make your phone look pretty. That hardly sounds like “productivity” to me. For the longest time, you had to go out of your way to download a 3rd party application just to close apps.
That’s just fucking pathetic.
Android is the OS for teenagers who don’t have important shit to do. iOS is for adults.
LOL… delusional much, “Roya1”?? But feel free to explain just how the OS that calls NINETY-NINE PERCENT of all mobile viruses its own, can somehow be “more ROBUST and stable” by ANY bizarre stretch of the imagination. Hm??
Yeah. Didn’t think so. Dream on.
Apple’s hard and software integration is absolutely UNPARALLELED. I don’t give a flying rat’s backend if the screen is bigger smaller or the same. No iOS, no buy.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure that Apple is just FINE with the fact that they don’t have as large of a marketshare as Samsung. They have the BY FAR highest share of the EARNINGS of the entire mobile market. Oops. So hooray for Samsung and their (clearly detrimental) race to the ROCK BOTTOM. Enjoy the ride! You can watch it on your bigger screen! So hooray for you, too! :-)))
Thats all they have going for them. A bigger screen and higher phone specs. But everyone that knows technology knows it’s not all about that. ;)
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Not really. I saw some report today from Zachs? saying how Apple’s iPhone has growing hardware competition from every Android smartphone maker under the sun and Apple’s future really doesn’t look too bright at all. I think Zachs is wrong but I’m just saying that not everyone has your viewpoint.
“and Apple’s future really doesn’t look too bright at all.”
And you’re ACTUALLY ignorant enough to repeat that kind of malarkey just after (yet again) RECORD SALES of the iPhone 6?! LOL!
Gotta keep up with the Jones’!
“Good things come to those who wait” is what I’d say, not to mention the apps are waaay better than android etc etc. dumb ad
Dumb ad for dumb consumers, which is Samsung’s primary market audience, as almost no smart people go with them unless a bigger screen is needed. Even then, they should go with Sony or HTC.
Edison- the target on this ad is iPhone customers. But I agree with your assessment: dumb.
At least you are consistent in your posts. Sorry I can’t do more of your research for you. I hope they are paying you well.
I don’t think that anyone that has even a basic understanding of marketing thinks that this ad is designed to target iPhone customers. This ad is more about customer retention for the users that are currently using Samsung and about converting Android users to the Samsung iteration of Android. This ad will drive the average iOS users away.
Once again, Apple fanboys who have NEVER used Samsung are claiming how inferior it is.
Hypnotized by shiny objects … stilll.
I am Edison.
Apple haters who have no clue are claiming the iPhone is inferior. Not surprising.
I am herb02135go.
I’ve used both.
Android is terrible. It was neat being able to have dynamic wallpapers and neat, little widgets and root it and overclock it and do all that shiny, pretty stuff, but when I actually had to get shit done—ADULT shit, not teenage customize-my-phone-and-make-it-look-pretty shit—it fell short. Way short.
LOL… you are such a sad little tool, Herby.
Boy is Samsung missing the point. If I wanted a bigger screen and also wanted to switch to a (God forbid) Android device, then I would have done it a long time ago…smh.
I guess you just reaffirmed that people are switching to Android not because of the Screen but Because of the Superior Software.
Android is awful compared to iOS. Look at the home screen alone and you’ll realize there couldn’t be worse design. Those icons look like absolute garbage. It’s honestly embarrassing.
He did no such thing you imbecile. Try thinking before typing.
Roya1 is so funny. He goes from post to post trolling! But all of his comments have no foundation and, in many cases, are simply ignorant! The iPhones 5S sold 7 million phones this month compared to the Galaxy S5 selling 5 million! That’s 2 million more iPhone 5S sold this month DESPITE the fact that the Galaxy is 7 MONTHS NEWER! Your phone is a joke and we are all laughing at it! Lol.
http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-sales-suffer-topped-apples-iphone-5s-1630468
I believe i heard this before and the answer was “We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best” – Steve
Samsung is so stupid making these ads, Apple could say the same about many things they did first. Its just sad, i guess thats why they are calling them SadSung. What they should do is an ad with their “TouchID” that would be hilarious.
Yeah.. Samsung’s a year late on that one and doesn’t even work remotely as well as Touch ID.
If crApple could do it then why isn’t it? Oh yea, because you’re an f-ing liar.
FAIL
Ad homier attacks: The last effort of a troll with no basis or proof for anything he says.
Once again Samsung’s way of showing people interact with their phones is diametrically the opposite of what Apple does. Here we have two people sitting next to each other, each one glued to their phone (especially the one with the S5) rather than than talking to each other. It’s pretty terrible.
‘we’ve had it for two years’
Oblivious to the fact that the excitement is not over a larger screen but over a new iPhone.
Exactly…Samsung acts like consumers didn’t know this, lol.
“Oh, Samsung already had larger screens??? Then why am I so excited about the iPhone 6, I must have been living under a rock all these years! Man I should just go get a Galaxy!”
– Said no one ever
BINGO!!! Why doesn’t this site have a LIKE function???
Samsung just stop hahaha. I know so many people that chose Galaxy devices and wish they didn’t. Constant complaining about sluggish performance and such. I don’t know why anyone chooses a Samsung device when there’s the HTC One, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Moto X, and the iPhone that are way better. I would even go for the Moto G before I would a Galaxy device. Not to mention most of their screens are too big anyway.
Samsung three years with plastic
All of the Galaxy S devices have been made from plastic and there have been 5 iterations of the devices. So my question is: how did you get to 3 years?
Bigger screens doesn’t make Samsung Galaxy better, it’s just something to sell… If Samsung had a great device, with the huge specs they throw in the ads it was supposed to be at least 2x better than iPhone, but that’s not what I see. The Samsung processor was supposed to be better than iPhone’s 5s processor but isn’t (check the benchmarks). All I see is something to sell (via specs, not quality). The Samsung plastic cellphones are ridiculous and a piece of garbage (I own both cellphones and I can tell that iPhone beats Samsung in ALL aspects). A bigger screen is just something that Samsung can’t achieve: smaller devices. For smaller devices, you’ll need better technology and hardware assembling and Samsung doesn’t have any of these.
As I can see, ALL Samsung customers are going to use a 80 inches cell phones in the next two years with a truck battery inside…
You forget a little gift.
With the rumors, iPhone 6 will have 4.7 inch not?
Unfortunately he will be more bigger than 5 inch phones…..
And the battery of 1810mAh for iPhone 6?
The Xperia z1 compact have 2300mAh for 4.3 inch….
What the hell are you talking about? Proofread before hitting “Post” if you want people to take you seriously.
LOL do you seriously believe you can directly compare the battery capacities of two devices running on totally different hardware AND totally different software? The technically illiterate seem to come out in droves anytime a criticism of Samsung gets published.
Doesn’t Samsung make Apples processors, displays and memory? Doesn’t apple outsource their assembly to other manufacturers like Foxconn? Didn’t Samsung get awarded for having the best smart phone display for their S5 by displaymate?
Questions like these make me doubt the legitimacy of your comment.
You’re right, but it’s more than that… it’s about waiting until the technology is good enough. Like you said, “do things right”. Apple wasn’t first with LTE/4G, in fact, I think Apple was 2 years late. Why? Because when the HTC Bionic came out on Verizon as one of the first LTE phones, it was terrible. The battery lasted 3-4 hours when using LTE, and then not even every market had LTE yet. So Apple, based on their “do it right” philosophy, waited until the markets were ready, and the technology was ready where you could browse on LTE for 8-10 hours. They make great products and only get there first if the tech is going to be awesome like the iPhone 4 with the retina display (no phone yet had invisible pixels) or Touch ID (not first but by far the best yet).
With the screen issue, there are a lot of trade offs with these big screens. Samsung’s trade offs are ridiculously bad colors with those overly saturated AMOLED displays. LG’s new G3 also, in reviews I’ve read, has color and brightness issues. The larger panels just sacrifice quality for size. That’s not Apple’s way. If the iPhone 6 has a bigger screen, it’ll be a better quality screen than any other smartphone out there guaranteed. It might not have insane pixel density over 500ppi which your eyes can’t see anyway, but it will have more correct colors, better viewing angles, be brighter in direct sunlight, more true whites, etc.
Ignore my other comment in reply, my computer went crazy and I pasted a different reply here which doesn’t pertain…
Actual reply:
Samsung does make parts for Apple, but this doesn’t mean anything. The processors for instance are designed and engineered by Apple, in-house, and are manufactured by a different arm of Samsung than the one that designs their Galaxy phones. In other words, it’s not like the CPUs in iPhones and iPads are Samsung CPUs. No, they are Apple processors, just made by Samsung’s chip manufacturing division to Apple’s design specs/blueprints. They could have any CPU manufacturer up to snuff make their A(X) processors for them, but rely on Samsung only because they have the manufacturing scale Apple needs. Apple is Samsung’s customer in this case, not the other way around. And yes, Foxconn assembles the iPhones, but this is true for a vast array of consumer electronics from many companies. This doesn’t really mean anything either. I work for a company that manufactures parts for commercial airlines, does that take anything away from Boeing? Large projects use a multitude of outsourcing.
Samsung’s displays are big and nice and sharp, and that’s why they get awards, but they are far from the best. For one, their colors are way off due to how over saturated AMOLED displays are, in general.
I have both iPhone5s & SGS5. iPhone is light years ahead of Samsung in terms of software and build. It aint about screen size. It is about quality and usability. Samsung is losing market quickly. I expect next Samsung flagship phone to sell much less than their SGS5.
You’ve had it for 2 years, we know, still don’t care…
Man Apple Fanboy are Pathetic with their comments always having to defend themselves.
Ironic considering that the Samsung ad that is being commented on is just Samsung “defending themselves”… Lol. What a troll…
negativity begets negativity, buddy. just chill, if you believe you have the upper-hand, then you’ve already won… relax, the game is over. no need to go aggro on people who believe otherwise. although, you DID pick an inferior OS to support, “more stable…superior software” y-OK lol.
Hilarious, coming from someone who not only felt the need to jump to Samsung’s defense on an Apple-centric website, but who has had to make up statistics as he goes, because the truth doesn’t support what he wants to believe is true.
Mad whack
All the way!!
By constantly doing this, Samsung is only showing how freaked out it is about the iPhone 6 coming soon. If they were a confident company which truly believed in their customers’ loyalty, they wouldn’t be making anti-iPhone commercials non-stop right now. Samsung is obviously quite scared because they probably know that most people have only been buying their phones for the larger screen. Once an iPhone can be had with a larger screen, watch Samsung’s Galaxy sales tank…
Yeah, i agree with you. It’s so cool for Apple for a rival to give them a free mention. I think that’s free ad for Apple.
I don’t think people get the strategy that Apple is following…. Apple could make a bigger screen iPhone before these fake f.cks even copied the iPhone… but they didn’t, you know why ? because they use to ”do things right”…. they take it step by step which cause Apple to get more new customers…. so Sumsung has had big screen since x years ago and it’s now boring because they can’t go bigger… but apple takes it slow and make people ”hungry” for the big screen…. i get what they are doing and i think this is the best business strategy….
You’re right, but it’s more than that… it’s about waiting until the technology is good enough. Like you said, “do things right”. Apple wasn’t first with LTE/4G, in fact, I think Apple was 2 years late. Why? Because when the HTC Bionic came out on Verizon as one of the first LTE phones, it was terrible. The battery lasted 3-4 hours when using LTE, and then not even every market had LTE yet. So Apple, based on their “do it right” philosophy, waited until the markets were ready, and the technology was ready where you could browse on LTE for 8-10 hours. They make great products and only get there first if the tech is going to be awesome like the iPhone 4 with the retina display (no phone yet had invisible pixels) or Touch ID (not first but by far the best yet).
With the screen issue, there are a lot of trade offs with these big screens. Samsung’s trade offs are ridiculously bad colors with those overly saturated AMOLED displays. LG’s new G3 also, in reviews I’ve read, has color and brightness issues. The larger panels just sacrifice quality for size. That’s not Apple’s way. If the iPhone 6 has a bigger screen, it’ll be a better quality screen than any other smartphone out there guaranteed. It might not have insane pixel density over 500ppi which your eyes can’t see anyway, but it will have more correct colors, better viewing angles, be brighter in direct sunlight, more true whites, etc.
No, Apple realized that iPhone users wanted a larger screen. Its called change. Give the customer what he/she wants. Its that simple.
No it’s not just realizing change..it’s about waiting for the screen tech to be good enough. If you were right, then Apple could have built a larger screen phone 3 years ago when big screen phones started to show their popularity. Phones larger than the iPhone hit the market in 2010 starting with the HTC Evo, so it was only about change, Apple would have done this years ago since it’s easier to build a larger phone than a smaller one, there’s more room for components.
This ad is perfect for millennials who are so self conscious about fitting in to culture and society and who are easily manipulated by the culture industry to buy a product to project a certain image. Apple certainly does this too, but Samsung is aggressively pushing the rhetoric. Surprisingly, it works. Not only do they insult you but also convince you to give them money to repair your image that they “tarnished” with their ads. Pretty sad but it’s says a lot about our society I think.
Does it really work though? Samsung’s Galaxy sales, as well as their mobile profits, are down lately. I bet you this will backfire. I’m putting my money on the iPhone 6 blowing away Galaxy sales. We’ll see soon if I’m right. But the fact Samsung keeps pushing no class insulting commercials like these, about a product not even yet announced officially, shows how scared Samsung is of a larger screen iPhone. They know the bigger screen is the only thing people like about their cheap phones.
Apple’s iPhone blew away the galaxy phones every single year… There’s no need to bet. It takes Apple 3 days (one weekend) to sell the same number of iPhones as it takes shamesung 3 months (one quarter) to sell all their galaxy phones combined.
Who cares?! lol…. I’m not buying crapware Android… thank you very much.
The still dont have anything on IOS especially when IOS 8 and yosemite come out. Everything Apple works together. Samsung does not have a perfect solution for home and TV.
How is those sales numbers working out for them?
Too bad that bigger screen has done f***-all for Samsunk. I guess they have to try slinging mud to get one over on Apple when their features can’t do the job. Google doesn’t even like them these days.
These ads wreak of desperation on Scamsung’s part, and quite honestly, the arrogance is appalling. Seems Scamsung doesn’t realize that the MAJORITY of smartphone users enjoy having a device that doesn’t want to constantly pop out of your back pocket, or give women the wrong first impressions.
I’m quite offended by this ad, and it just makes me love my 5S that much more. SCREW YOU SCAMSUNG!
the good news is, there are plenty of Galaxy S5 smartphones still in stores. you won’t need to rush and hope to get an iPhone…just casually walk in and get an S5 any day of the week.
Sorry Ramage. That’s not quite true. Some models are in very short supply. Plus, usually four months into the product year even Apple has sufficient supply – of course in apple’s case there is usually a recall.
If they’re in short supply, it’s because Samsung scaled back orders because sales are much lower than they expected. Once again, your facts are incomplete.
Why are Samsung guys such asshole friends to Apple users? lol
Try the 5.5″ Samsung…
Yeah, because this is so appealing:
http://bit.ly/1pa6WXr
Another colassal fail by ScamScum and their kindergarden ad “campaign”.
They think it’s clever to say they’ve had a larger screen for 2 years alreadywhen it really just cements how obscure they are and their ‘look at me’ menality.
Samsung has done many stupid things, but their adveritising is right up there with the ‘crisis of design’ documents…
If you want to make me your customer, if you call me an idiot, I lose all interest. Not only do I think the brand is cheap, it makes it negative by association.
This constant theme, like the line up ads (oddly though Samsung would love a line up at a phone launch) – just reinforce the Samsung fan boy ego.
But they are already customers, so just what is the point of them wasting money on turning customers off??
Bizarre. Probably brought on by bad kimchi. I was in Korea recently and copying is a national pastime there, google a picture of Lotte World and tell me what it is a gaudy rip off of… The country is stuffed full of ripoffs. I do like kimchi though :)
The black lad had to be the dull one using the S5…give me a break, Shamesung
that sound you hear is samsung bracing themselves for the iphone 6 release.
They just spent $ to let people know a big iPhone is coming….smooth move!
A big iPhone MAY be coming. See article about product delays.
Samsung mentioning Apple shows that it’s not afraid and wetting its pants like the crApple fanboys posting here.
Totally right herb! A preemptive marketing campaign doesn’t indicate market concern at all! Oh wait… That’s EXACTLY what it means! *smh
Marketing is much more complex than a schoolyard bully mentioning someone’s name to prove they are unafraid. You are confusing 1v1 social interaction with marketing strategy and group psychology. But it’s always fun when fanboys post things about which they have no understanding… =)
Samsung always come out with these commercials. it seem like they only do it when they have very bad sales. so to try and put apple down to have them lose sales. First off everyone knows apple is behind on the screen size. i guess samsung has money to waste on these commercials. A samsung why don’t you spend that money on people that might need food.
to be honest i would like a iPhone i can change the battier out.
What samsung doesn’t understand is that it’s not only the size that matters, it’s also the total user experience. Good for them having larger screens for longer, I don’t care… none of them have ever or will ever run iOS.
This is Apple’s new marketing strategy: let Samsung do it for them! No wonder Apple spends less on marketing! Apple can continue spending more money on actually developing outstanding products that people want.
Every time Samsung makes ads like this it makes me laugh. It means they still don’t get customers. It’s all about platforms now yet they still think one hardware component somehow should be the game changer.
“It’s everything you’ve been waiting for” You mean a phone that looks like a bandaid?
Cool! Free advertisement for Apple! Putting the gorgeous iPhone 5s next to the hideous carbon copy of the iPhone 3G then touting that the gorgeous little thing will have an even bigger screen coming is just great FREE advertisement for Apple. Anyone who sees the comparison will surely see shamesung’s products for what it really is… 5 years behind in design an a few decades behind in innovation.
“We’ve had that for years!”
Us: We’re quite aware, Samsung. And yet we haven’t bought it, knowing you and many others have had larger screens all this time…
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We’d let you do the math but you seem to be having some trouble. It’s not you, Samsung. It’s Android. Well, you’re kinda making it you with pretentious ads like these, but that aside, I’d honestly rather use a flip phone than your S5.
Getting a Samsung phone is like buying a hummer. By overclocking* and having neat, pretty little widgets and dynamic wallpapers, you can scream “look at me!” But when it comes to actually doing shit consistently—hell, when it comes to actually doing shit period—it falls short. Very short.
Does it have good gas mileage? No.
Can it haul anything? No.
Does it handle well? No.
Sooo… what’s the point of it?
I’m glad you asked! It’s great if you feel threatened and have a small penis!
*(Let’s be real about about overclocking, nerds. Its only use is to make resource-hogging games [which should ideally run fine without overclocking in the first place] run better [while draining your battery/overall life of your phone, etc. etc. whatever who cares about this really, though]. Now, I’m a pretty hardcore gamer myself, but think about this from an adult’s perspective for a second. You’re choosing which phone to use to get actual adult shit done and some kid keeps screaming “BUT YOU CAN GO WAY OUT OF YOUR WAY TO DO THIS THING THAT MAKES 3D GAMES RUN BETTER ON *THIS* PHONE!” Do you really care? Or are you more likely to play Chess on your phone and leave Diablo III to your PS3?)
No it’s not, Fake. It’s more like Edison typing in all CAPS BECAUSE HE IS SECURE in his masculinity. In other words, there is no comparison.
LOVE MY SAMSUNG GS5!
I’d like to see those unimaginative drecks at ScamScum do a commercial comparing smart phone units sold (in the wild – not shipped). I’m sure those lying cheats would twist the numbers ro make them look good when they really suck.
I have had the Iphone 1,2,4, and 4s. I finally switched the Galaxy s3 on a friends advice. Then I got the Galaxy s4 for Christmas free from best buy. Both systems have there positives and negatives. And for all of you who keep the argument of which one is better. I really am tired of reading about it. Tell me i am wrong, aren’t both android and iOS UNIX based anyway? Just enjoy the tech, use whatever device you please. Its the same for the PS4/Xboxone/PC gaming. Just enjoy your games on the system you like. Stop the trolling and hating! When the iphone 6 comes out i am switching back to it. I feel that iOS is much smother and simpler to use then android. And thats my two-cents!! Peace!!
Its nice to read your comments from a person that has tried both systems and is emotionally-neutral in putting forth their viewpoint. It makes for a nice breath of fresh air :)
Samsung should stop insulting Apple, it’s been too much already. They should just accept Apple as a competitor not an enemy as what it seems like. Just that they didn’t achieve their goal of selling enough galaxy s5’s, doesn’t mean they can mock Apple like this. They should just accept this as they have a whole range of smartphones to sell unlike Apple.
I wouldn’t own a samsung phone or anything Android based for that matter, even if someone payed me a weekly salary I wouldn’t even consider it, I have 5 macs at home, one for each room, My wife has a 13″ MacBook Air, my son has a 15″ MacBook Pro, I have a 17″ MacBook Pro with a 1TB hard drive and a 256GB SSD in the optical bay with the OS and apps running off it (I put one in my son’s 15″ MacBook Pro too Just like I did in my 17″) and I have 2 27″ iMacs standing side by side connected with a thunderbolt cable so I can extend the screen and use 1 iMac to run Logic Pro and and the other as a 2nd screen to extend logic. Both my iMacs have built in 256GB SSDs too and the original 1TB hard drives as scratch discs as I used the unused built in SATA ports on the iMacs logic boards to connect SSDs to. All my macs start up in under 15 seconds as all have maxed out ram and SSDs. I love my Macs, our 3 Apple TVs, my Apple Time Capsule, 2 64GB iPad 4s and we each have iPhone 5Ss. Yes my 8yo son too. now tell me why would I ever introduce a incompatible Android device? no iCloud sync so whats the point.
Dear Robert,
The only reason you should ever get an Andoid phone, is because your careless 8 year old child, is going to smash his iPhone at some point. Therefore he needs to have a Samsung or some such “toy”.
Iphones are not for children of his age, no matter how much you think he takes care of it.
Look, you have obviously gone way overboard in your Apple purchases, its not at all necessary with 5x Macs – one for each room.
And what when the next iPad comes out? You’ll use a lot of money just to upgrade?
No, I think you’d be fine with one macbook for your music, your wife can have an iMac. You can have one iPad that you and the wife share and sometimes your son can use it if absolutely necessary.
1 Apple TV in the lounge is plenty sufficient.
You and your wife can both have an iPhone 5S, thats ok by me, but your son must have an Android phone which he’ll break at some point in time.
An 8 year old doesn’t need to have anything at all synced to the cloud. The pictures he takes are just fuzzy or something non-relevant and you know this. His list of contacts is very limited, just needs basic people like “daddy” “mommy” “aunty” “uncle” “police” “ambulance” and thats about it.
There, I’ve just optimized your work flow and saved you a ton of money for free, because you went full retard on your purchasing budget :)
Kindly shut the hell up. You have no right to tell him how to use his computers. He explained very simply how he uses them all and it makes sense. If you don’t need all that, that’s for you to decide for yourself and no one else. He clearly made some informed decisions that fit his needs and not yours.
You’re not saving him any money and he doesn’t need your opinion on HIS usage. You went full retard on that comment :)
Dearest Air Burt,
Its bleedingly obvious he needs good, sound advice, when he went completely overboard on his unnecessary purchases.
And he should be thankful, that some random person from the internet, took the time to asses the damage-situation and get it rectified for him for free.
To be proven wrong (as in his purchasing case) is only a good thing, because he becomes enlightened and dosen’t make the same mistakes again (unless he dosen’t have the IQ to grasp the instructions of course) :)
It’s bleedingly obvious you’re a completely clueless moron.
As someone who works with this stuff for a living, I can tell you with 100% certainty that he needs NO HELP FROM YOU! Everything he has makes complete sense. 3 Apple TVs tells me he has a large house with multiple TVs, which is not necessarily excessive. The Macs, Time Capsule, iPads and iPhones all make sense for his family. Everyone having their own device is only excessive if they’re all not using them, which we have no evidence for. Robert clearly does some sort of work in music, which supports his need for both a laptop and powerful desktop. Giving the kid an Android phone is retarded because it will be the only device in the house not compatible with everything else. With an iPhone, Robert and his wife can iMessage with their son and he’ll get it whether he’s on Wi-Fi with no cell signal or actually has service.
Even disregarding the validity of your argument, HE ALREADY OWNS THESE! Your advice does nothing to save him money and only makes you look like a complete asshat.
Dear Air Burt,
Can you try to be more original in your posts, instead of copying&pasting my adjectives?
Now, as per Robert, he has a computer in each room. For 3 people?
iMessage?!?!? For goodness sake, we’re speaking about an 8 year old!
Kids just need a cheap Nokia and nothing else that has plenty of signal on normal 2G/3G network.
An android is ok as there can be a few games on that.
Dosen’t need to sync anything at all with the rest of the family. An 8 year old contributes nothing of value as per photos or anything else. Kid is simply too young.
If you’d notice, he wrote that he has some of the “newest” models, all 5S for example. Which means he’s in the habit of upgrading all the time. Total waste. He can get the new iPhone 6, thats ok, but his wife and child, certainly don’t need the latest model.
As per music, it dosen’t take the “most powerful” desktop. A couple of MIDI channels and a few audio channels (this is where the CPU does most of its work) Its likely he goes completely overboard on this too, probably has 256 MIDI channels, instead of just keeping it neat and using std. 16.
But thanks for your concern, my post was for Robert.
Calling me an asshat instead of being civil, says more about you than it does about me.
So you’re gonna continue in this stupidity? Let me make this as simple as possible for you to understand:
-As he says, his wife and son each have their own laptop. He uses his iMacs for Logic Pro, which requires a decently powerful machine. One is used in monitor mode, but also functions as a backup computer. A two-monitor setup is the standard in music production. Having his own MBP as a mobile production machine is also not uncommon. Or maybe the iMacs are his work machine and the MBP is for personal, leisure computing. Either way, it’s not excessive to have 5 Macs because they are all serving a different purpose for different people.
-As for the phone, get off your high horse. I’ve seen 8-year-olds more responsible than full grown adults. His son might have earned that trust. iMessage does not have an age limit. For every bratty 3rd grader, there’s a dozen perfectly well-behaved 3rd graders. They absolutely can contribute photos (which also don’t have an age limit) and such. Also, you’re complaining about this, but not the fact that he also has his own laptop?! His iPhone easily syncs his pictures to his MBP, along with all his apps and backs it all up. He may not have a lot of contacts yet, but he’ll be ready and already has experience using an iPhone when it happens. It also provides him with his own entertainment for long car rides and trips (the 2014 version of the Game Boy, essentially).
-Newest models? That doesn’t mean he always upgrades right away. You’re really reaching with that one. His wife is absolutely allowed to have the latest model if she so desires; don’t be a sexist dick. Same goes for his son, in addition to everything I already said above.
If you can’t understand all of that, you’re dumber than I thought you were. Robert doesn’t need your ego-laden post, nor does anyone else because you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.
I’ll say it again: kindly shut the hell up.
Air Burt,
You’re right, an iPhone is probably the 2014 version of a Gameboy. Rather expensive Gameboy. An android for $100 is way better suited for a kid, if he’s just going to play and make the odd phone call.
Also the radiation is also not so healthy for a developing child.
Please don’t compare kids to adults, it just makes no sense whatsoever.
Ask a child to do his tax returns and see what response you get.
I didn’t know his kid has his own laptop too? I suppose thats ok, I had my first computer aged 9 back in 1983, so why not.
Just the iPhone is a big deal and totally overkill.
Now, as per his wife, I’m not being sexist at all. Obviously Robert is the “culprit” here in acquiring all this Apple gear. His wife just follows along.
No, I’m afraid, you’re quite dead wrong on the fact he needs a mobile music thingy along with his iMacs.
Usually you use one computer for your music needs, you don’t go dragging it along to the lounge or kitchen. I think Robert needs to learn to sit down and focus/concentrate on what he’s doing, instead of flying all over the place.
I have 1 iMac and the wife has 1 computer. I have 1 iPhone and the wife has 1 iPhone. I have about 7 laptops (non Apple) and perhaps 8-9 stationary PC’s. We both share 1 iPad, although I use it 90% of the time. We have 1 TV in the lounge.
I only use my iMac and sometimes my laptop in the lounge (because its connected to the TV, so it needs to be there)
Otherwise my other computers just sit in cupboards. Totally unnecessary gear. But I didn’t spend a fortune on it either, thankfully.
I also create music and 1 computer is absolutely ok for that.
When we get a child, he/she certainly won’t be getting an iPhone. Never. Especially an 8 year old.
Perhaps at age 12 it would be ok, though I’m not fond of the idea.
But I’m not the stupid one here. Robert is the one who spent way loads of cash for 64GB iPads/iPhones (as if you’ll ever need that space honestly)
More money than sense detected!
Anyway, Air Burt, we’re all entitled to our opinions, I have as much right/privilege as you do to voice it, so asking me to “shut up” is pretty ironic.
Meanwhile, M17 killed a lot of people last week and all we’re doing is sitting typing stupid shit. Strange world.
All I read is that your ignorant, clueless asshole who knows nothing about computer needs. You literally said nothing that made sense in any world but your own. Come back to reality sometime. You’ll find that those of us that objectively consult others on technology actually know what we’re talking about. Maybe spend some time researching this stuff and actually learning something before you make yourself look like a bumbling retard again.
Dear Air Burt,
I have +30 years experience with IT, so I certainly don’t need pointers from you.
Its becoming apparently clear that your level of expertise, is calling people assholes, asshats, imbeciles e.t.c. who don’t agree with you as can be witnessed in your posts to me and others from this page alone.
Flinging out insults is way too teen-like for my level, so this is my final reply to you.
Work experience doesn’t equate to practical application, where I’m clearly the expert here. You can live on in your dream world, but don’t pretend like it’s anything like reality!
Brag superfluously much? *facepalm*
Oh, no. Now Shamedung will have to make 10″ phones.
I personally prefer Android, I find the Ad’s comical and sure it is an attempt to get people to buy one product over another, isn’t that the point of all TV ad’s?
what I find funny is all you people that feel the need to insult each other, with your perceived facts about about how much better this system is than that, or how arrogant one phone owner is than the other, like a bunch of bickering children on a playground. Why not be constructive and respect each others opinions?