Quite the opposite. It works. That's how Pepsi became number two. They compared themselves to Coke, fabricating a fictional dichotomy in a market that was actually full of sodas.
They forgot to mention that although it will last half as long on a full battery charge, that should never be a problem for real Summy users who always have a spare battery with them.
Battery life will not be an issue after Samsung squires Tesla so users can just pull into a Supercharger station and refuel every few hours.
I agree that iOS is a super multitasking OS, with many background tasks running simultaneously, but running multiple front-end apps side by side will be a nice feature to have. It will be a tough decision for Apple to make since they may be perceived by some as trailing behind Windows 8 and Android in features.
This is violating the original design of iOS. Both iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display has a resolution of 2048-by-1536. iPhone has a resolution of 1136-by-640. Every app is written with these resolutions in mind. Can you do the math how an app will look if it is fit into half of the screen?
I must say, a multitasking feature on the iPad would be a big plus. On several occasions I wanted to access my email or look something up during a FaceTime session and I was quite annoyed that I couldn't without being kicked out of my session.
I still cannot believe that I cannot check my list of voicemails on my iPhone without hanging up first.
I do find the iPhone's narrow portrait screen useless for browsing the web, yes I'd love a larger screen. I browsed the internet on a SG5 and loved it, sorry but that's the truth.
The stylus would be nice for designers on the iPad, but I feel it would be no more more than a gimmick on a phone.
You can leave the FaceTime app at any time and it will be completely unaffected. Multiple times I have used it and browsed the web to double-check things.
You can check the voicemails. I have just reproduced it to confirm. I tapped the 5th tab, voicemail, it dialled, I clicked the loud-speaker button so I could still hear it, and clicked the home button to leave the phone app. Voicemail continued.
The iPhone's screen size is completely irrelevant to this article, and to any post made previous in this thread.
Design's do not need a stylus, they have their finger. Check out a video of Kyle, an old friend of mine, painting Morgan Freeman on an iPad with just his finger, you may have even seen this video already.
EDIT: I misread #2. You must have Visual Voicemail. In the UK, only o2 provides that, so I have to dial for voicemail anyway, which obviously isn't supported whilst already on a call.
Quite the opposite. It works. That's how Pepsi became number two. They compared themselves to Coke, fabricating a fictional dichotomy in a market that was actually full of sodas.
I guess you're right, they have nothing to offer that is unique, I suppose there aim is to be number 2. It sad but I thing it is engrained in their corporate culture. Remember recently they offered Olympians a samsung smart phone for free but they could not use their apple products in public.
This is violating the original design of iOS. Both iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display has a resolution of 2048-by-1536. iPhone has a resolution of 1136-by-640. Every app is written with these resolutions in mind. Can you do the math how an app will look if it is fit into half of the screen?
This is actually not really true.
It is correct, that for a very long time iOS apps have been designed with a specific resolution in mind. This was very bad practise, it was lazy on developers' part but it worked and made a lot of things easier, especially around iOS 5 and 6 when almost no new app came along using standard interface components but hand drawn stuff. Apple only fuelled this bad practise by preserving resolution and aspect ratio (just think of those black bars when the iPhone 5 came out). However, I do agree with Apple preserving compatibility like that.
Either way, it was possible to code resolution independently ever since. It just means a bit of extra work. Even hand crafted artwork can be integrated in a scaling manner without any issues whatsoever. And while the Apple ecosystem always had a big plus over all those varying screen sizes, simply because you could really lay out your app pixel perfect, especially if you knew most of the content being displayed. Thus, on iOS it was rare to have half a screen filled and the rest simply empty because of screen size; and we saw that a lot on Android.
Nevertheless, it is and always was possible to code without catering for a specific resolution. Apple's interface components always worked that way anyway. Now, when taking a look at what changed in iOS 7, there are clearly many more signs of incoming resolution/screen size changes, because there's so much happening in terms of making it easier and to encourage developers not to hard code any values anymore.
In fact, most apps should just work finde filling only half the screen. This is not that much different over catering for a background call or other system wide behaviour which reduces the app's screen estate temporarily. The thing is just that there are a load of crappy apps out there, which never considered these things.
I must say, a multitasking feature on the iPad would be a big plus. On several occasions I wanted to access my email or look something up during a FaceTime session and I was quite annoyed that I couldn't without being kicked out of my session.
I still cannot believe that I cannot check my list of voicemails on my iPhone without hanging up first.
I do find the iPhone's narrow portrait screen useless for browsing the web, yes I'd love a larger screen. I browsed the internet on a SG5 and loved it, sorry but that's the truth.
The stylus would be nice for designers on the iPad, but I feel it would be no more more than a gimmick on a phone.
Why is it that I can be on FaceTime and switch to my email or any other app and return to my FaceTime call? I don't think Your're correct about this. But maybe I am missing something.
As there is no SG5 out, I'm guessing he left off the /s.
Hell, Samsung has a pint with these ads. It's time we have better multitasking (browsing and taking notes, for example) and the iPhone screen is pathetically small, despite destroying the note on everything else.
You're sample size is a bit small (basing the market demand on a sample size of 'you')... 90% of humans can't grok multi-tasking on technology. Focus on the who you want buying your tablet (Apple doesn't see the iPad as the 'next computer' for a 10X programmer... They see it for the 65 year old who 'wants to see their granddaughter's FaceSpace').
As for size, with the retirement of the iPad 2 and original mini, and dropping of support of the 3GS, There is room in iOS for introducing a new form factor. You must not think in weeks or months, when Apple thinks in years and decades.
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The coke pepsi argument is valid here, as is the hertz avis argument... As is.. Mac vs 'PC' (Apple learned not to fight microsoft, and not even to fight HP or Dell... they fought the concept of OEM HW with a nameless OS on top of it).
Getting the customer to go into BestBuy with a "Samsung vs Apple" compare in their heads eliminates Microsoft, LG, Motorola, HTC, Lenovo... And the fact that Samsung has the look alike Samsung Table across the Aisle at BBY from the Apple Table is not lost upon this campaign. If Apple wins 70% of the time against high end Android Tablets, you don't want to be fighting against 4 others for a slice of the remainder.
Before I had an iPhone I used to do it on my flip-phone. There had been several occasions where I wanted to tell someone that someone else called at a certain time and his number is such and such
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Quite the opposite. It works. That's how Pepsi became number two. They compared themselves to Coke, fabricating a fictional dichotomy in a market that was actually full of sodas.
I though that is what I said. It's a race to win the #2 spot. Samsung wants to be the #1 choice of Apple haters.
Me culpa. I read your comment wrong.
Actually, I think this is quite a nice ad...
I wouldn't buy the product, but the ad made me smile.
Has the same 'tone' of some of those Mac vs PC ads... Maybe Apple should revive the format they perfected...?
"Hi! I'm iPad. And this is Galaxy... Hey, Galaxy! Wake up!..."
"Wha...? Sorry. I'm recharging."
"Isn't that, like, the third time today?"
"Yep! All that multi-tasking sure eats up the juice."
"But what if you need to do something important?"
"Well, you just...."
"Oh... He's asleep again. I guess we can talk when he's back up and running. Maybe in half an hour or so..."
A.
Battery life will not be an issue after Samsung squires Tesla so users can just pull into a Supercharger station and refuel every few hours.
"Hi! I'm iPad. And this is Galaxy... Hey, Galaxy! Wake up!..."
"Wha...? Sorry. I'm recharging."
"Isn't that, like, the third time today?"
"Yep! All that multi-tasking sure eats up the juice."
“Weird. Mine doesn’t. What if you need to do something important?"
"Well, you just...."
"Oh... He's asleep again. I guess we can talk when he's back up and running. Maybe in half an hour or so..."
Little change, but I like it.
I agree that iOS is a super multitasking OS, with many background tasks running simultaneously, but running multiple front-end apps side by side will be a nice feature to have. It will be a tough decision for Apple to make since they may be perceived by some as trailing behind Windows 8 and Android in features.
This is violating the original design of iOS. Both iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display has a resolution of 2048-by-1536. iPhone has a resolution of 1136-by-640. Every app is written with these resolutions in mind. Can you do the math how an app will look if it is fit into half of the screen?
I must say, a multitasking feature on the iPad would be a big plus. On several occasions I wanted to access my email or look something up during a FaceTime session and I was quite annoyed that I couldn't without being kicked out of my session.
I still cannot believe that I cannot check my list of voicemails on my iPhone without hanging up first.
I do find the iPhone's narrow portrait screen useless for browsing the web, yes I'd love a larger screen. I browsed the internet on a SG5 and loved it, sorry but that's the truth.
The stylus would be nice for designers on the iPad, but I feel it would be no more more than a gimmick on a phone.
You can leave the FaceTime app at any time and it will be completely unaffected. Multiple times I have used it and browsed the web to double-check things.
You can check the voicemails. I have just reproduced it to confirm. I tapped the 5th tab, voicemail, it dialled, I clicked the loud-speaker button so I could still hear it, and clicked the home button to leave the phone app. Voicemail continued.
The iPhone's screen size is completely irrelevant to this article, and to any post made previous in this thread.
Design's do not need a stylus, they have their finger. Check out a video of Kyle, an old friend of mine, painting Morgan Freeman on an iPad with just his finger, you may have even seen this video already.
EDIT: I misread #2. You must have Visual Voicemail. In the UK, only o2 provides that, so I have to dial for voicemail anyway, which obviously isn't supported whilst already on a call.
FYI, it is unintuitive and not multitasking by any means, but you can see recent calls by clicking the "add call" button while in a call.
I see, I'll have to try that next time... It would be nice to share the screen between two apps, like Mail and Safari.
I think what you're looking for is called a "computer." There are many to choose from.
I guess you're right, they have nothing to offer that is unique, I suppose there aim is to be number 2. It sad but I thing it is engrained in their corporate culture. Remember recently they offered Olympians a samsung smart phone for free but they could not use their apple products in public.
You can switch out of the FaceTime app without being "kicked out" of your session. Audio communication continues while your video is paused...
Really? So FaceTime can be used as replacement for phone call?
This is violating the original design of iOS. Both iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display has a resolution of 2048-by-1536. iPhone has a resolution of 1136-by-640. Every app is written with these resolutions in mind. Can you do the math how an app will look if it is fit into half of the screen?
This is actually not really true.
It is correct, that for a very long time iOS apps have been designed with a specific resolution in mind. This was very bad practise, it was lazy on developers' part but it worked and made a lot of things easier, especially around iOS 5 and 6 when almost no new app came along using standard interface components but hand drawn stuff. Apple only fuelled this bad practise by preserving resolution and aspect ratio (just think of those black bars when the iPhone 5 came out). However, I do agree with Apple preserving compatibility like that.
Either way, it was possible to code resolution independently ever since. It just means a bit of extra work. Even hand crafted artwork can be integrated in a scaling manner without any issues whatsoever. And while the Apple ecosystem always had a big plus over all those varying screen sizes, simply because you could really lay out your app pixel perfect, especially if you knew most of the content being displayed. Thus, on iOS it was rare to have half a screen filled and the rest simply empty because of screen size; and we saw that a lot on Android.
Nevertheless, it is and always was possible to code without catering for a specific resolution. Apple's interface components always worked that way anyway. Now, when taking a look at what changed in iOS 7, there are clearly many more signs of incoming resolution/screen size changes, because there's so much happening in terms of making it easier and to encourage developers not to hard code any values anymore.
In fact, most apps should just work finde filling only half the screen. This is not that much different over catering for a background call or other system wide behaviour which reduces the app's screen estate temporarily. The thing is just that there are a load of crappy apps out there, which never considered these things.
As there is no SG5 out, I'm guessing he left off the /s.
Every Youtube video from Microsoft comes to mind.
Multitasking is definitely a feature I would use and appreciate on an iPad.That is certainly something I would love to see come to iOS.
That's an ignorant statement.
Hell, Samsung has a pint with these ads. It's time we have better multitasking (browsing and taking notes, for example) and the iPhone screen is pathetically small, despite destroying the note on everything else.
You're sample size is a bit small (basing the market demand on a sample size of 'you')... 90% of humans can't grok multi-tasking on technology. Focus on the who you want buying your tablet (Apple doesn't see the iPad as the 'next computer' for a 10X programmer... They see it for the 65 year old who 'wants to see their granddaughter's FaceSpace').
As for size, with the retirement of the iPad 2 and original mini, and dropping of support of the 3GS, There is room in iOS for introducing a new form factor. You must not think in weeks or months, when Apple thinks in years and decades.
Weak
The coke pepsi argument is valid here, as is the hertz avis argument... As is.. Mac vs 'PC' (Apple learned not to fight microsoft, and not even to fight HP or Dell... they fought the concept of OEM HW with a nameless OS on top of it).
Getting the customer to go into BestBuy with a "Samsung vs Apple" compare in their heads eliminates Microsoft, LG, Motorola, HTC, Lenovo... And the fact that Samsung has the look alike Samsung Table across the Aisle at BBY from the Apple Table is not lost upon this campaign. If Apple wins 70% of the time against high end Android Tablets, you don't want to be fighting against 4 others for a slice of the remainder.
Before I had an iPhone I used to do it on my flip-phone. There had been several occasions where I wanted to tell someone that someone else called at a certain time and his number is such and such
Isn't that on the Recents tab?
On what phone can you do that?
My old flip phones could do that and every Android phone I've had can do that.