It really does not matter what, when and how Samsung does this. Apple will roll their solution out that a appeals to the masses like they always have. It will be tied into the iTunes eco system which is the foundation for everything Apple does. This is why Apple never needs to be first to release.
It's hard for an industrial behemoth like Samsung to create an image of being cool (as defined by outsider status). Like your dad using current hip-hop slang which just makes him seem a little ridiculous. Apple, while big, is much more narrowly focused, thus seeming like the David in this fight. Thanks, Samsung, for unwittingly being the new Microsoft for Apple to play off of.
Back before the iPod there were MP3 players on the market. Before the iPhone there were phones that purported to surf the web, or was that the WAP? Lol! And before the iPad there were tablets, mostly being used in warehouses to count inventory. Apple has this nasty habit of releasing products, second, third, a year late, two years late, and too expensive for some people's taste. But once those Apple products arrive, it seems everything that had come before is soon forgotten. This time will be no different.
Upstage Apple like with there dumb watch! LOL! Apple is going to make them look pitiful with the products they release. And after Apple does release its own stuff you watch within 6 months you will see a total redesign of Samsung's products that will look exactly like Apple's.
Just like after the iPhone came out there were none with touch displays, after Apple though everyones went to touch displays, well except maybe Blackberry which ignored there doom until it was to late.
Hah! I can't wait for another DED Before/After graphic.
His one on Samsung phones before/after the iPhone is a classic.
They aren't like Wayne Gretzky: skating to where the puck will be.
They instead try to go to where they guess Wayne Gretzky is going without even seeing the puck.
And they try to be everywhere to cover all possibilities. It's possible to get a hit that way but as their attempt at a fingerprint sensor and watch showed, if you don't do it right then it doesn't have the same impact.
Samsung makes good components - display panels, SSDs, CPUs, memory, which is why Apple uses them but they are shameless about copying product ideas.
What, is Samsung gonna update their shitty watch AGAIN? They already have like 3 versions, plus that shitty bracelet thing. Why can't they release something good initially, instead of spamming the industry with an updated version every couple months? All this shit does is turn consumers off these products, and decreases their trust with technology.
"A conversation around health" is the least sexy sounding thing ever! It sounds like I am tuning into a round table discussion about generalized health topics.
Whoever wrote and approved that needs to work in their skills. You want to excite tantalize and entice not turn off people.
Samsung is a great manufacturer and sales company. Why can't they just hire away Apple employees or other people to think of their own new awesome products?
Whether or not it's justified their reputation is overwheingly that of a copy cat who increasingly copies the cool kid in order to be popular.
"A conversation around health" is the least sexy sounding thing ever! It sounds like I am tuning into a round table discussion about generalized health topics.
Whoever wrote and approved that needs to work in their skills. You want to excite tantalize and entice not turn off people.
Who wrote it? Samsung did- duh. Just a copy of "Let's talk iPhone" or the numerous one-liner invites Apple has done throughout the years.
But in typical Samsung fashion, it doesn't come close to being as well executed as Apple.
All this does is confirm Apple is still the top dog, the one to beat, the one people pay attention to. That Samsung feels it just has to announce something to upstage Apple says it all, that they’re the also-ran, not the one the industry follows, not the one people look to for leadership.
Samsung do refrigerators. "We OWN you, Apple, in kitchen appliances!"
If they got their act together, building an IoT's in the home is a good thing. I can think of some coolness... "Do I have beer in the fridge?" And a PTZ camera scans your fridge for beer. From your phone, tablet, tv... "Is my laundry load done? is are the clothes in the dryer dry?" These are things Samsung 'could' integrate into their world.... but because they are 10 different companies, not gonna happen.
But that would take more than 24 months of planning, and in most companies, thinking 9 months ahead on product is a death sentence.
It's like AirPlay for Apple. it took 2 years for that to evolve around the product set. Probably 2 more years for it to refine. Buy then, advices and Apple TV are 4-8X more powerful, 'ac' networking is fully fleshed out (10x more network), I can see iBeacon technology moving into the home, and the functionality becomes ubiquity.
Ob Health thing... you walk by your kitchen cabinet at 8am. Your phone 'reminds' you to take your meds. You walk away... It BEEPS you to GET BACK and TAKE YOUR MEDS.... (basically reminders plus iBeacon). If you don't, you get a call from your 'Nice Nurse' who calls you and reminds you to take your meds... and that friendly voice is heeded ("I like that nurse.... she always calls me and checks up on me"). In a future world, the med bottle is iConnected, as is a monitor to see if your BP, HR, hopefully even drug blood levels are within norms. as 20-40 somethings we think this is silly... but taking care of my MiL, that was exactly the sort of thing that pushed her to full care (forgetting to take her meds). So now insurance/medicare are paying parts of 18,000/year for effectively someone to remind her to take her pills and eat. Something that could have been delayed for 3-5 years.
An App. iBeacon, an FDA approved app. something on the skin monitoring her (iWatch? or something an iDevice talks to). Probably $200 in cost Insurance companies/gov't pay for it ($200 vs $18,000...), because it reduces acute care demands dramatically. multiple by 500 million people in Europe and US who fall under socialized medicine are over 60 years old. Looks to me about a 10-15B a year market.
Whoever wrote and approved that needs to work in their skills. You want to excite tantalize and entice not turn off people.
I agree. Very poor design for an invitation or even an ad. All black background is awful, especially if your topic is health related, you would want to have a bright, clean, sanitary look. Then there is the all caps, set solid headline, very ugly. The wavy stuff at the bottom might look ok on white but simply extra crap on the page just for decoration, useless. Formal invitation to follow - what a joke. The whole style of the artwork is dreadful. What is wrong with them? They should have just copied Apple's invitations.
Almost like this is a game to them....one I hope they lose very badly. I wonder if they lose this case if they'll be like they are now or if they'll put their tail between their legs and no longer do these things?
I don't really know what they're going to get out of this anyways. As soon as WWDC happens and Apple announces their stuff, everyone will forget what Samsung did a week prior to WWDC. Microsoft used to do this all the time too and it never worked so I'm not sure why Samsung will think it works for them.
What, is Samsung gonna update their shitty watch AGAIN? They already have like 3 versions, plus that shitty bracelet thing. Why can't they release something good initially, instead of spamming the industry with an updated version every couple months? All this shit does is turn consumers off these products, and decreases their trust with technology.
Hey, don't knock it. Samsung is updating it will Health features !
I'm thinking - a stopwatch (with alarm)
A pedometer with gps (so you know how far you have walked.)
A calculator (for working out health related math)
A torch (for nighttime jogging)
A fully touch based screen ( for viewing heathy websites - very small)
Waterproof for swimming, surfing etc.
A camera for those exciting 'surfing action' stills.
Tough plastic case for danger sports, rock climbing, base jumping etc.
I'm sure there is more those Samsung genius' have thought of, the sky is the limit!
Apple must be quaking right now !
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Samsung is an embarrassing company.
They aren't like Wayne Gretzky: skating to where the puck will be.
They instead try to go to where they guess Wayne Gretzky is going without even seeing the puck.
All I can think of is Jimmy Paek whenever I read this...
It really does not matter what, when and how Samsung does this. Apple will roll their solution out that a appeals to the masses like they always have. It will be tied into the iTunes eco system which is the foundation for everything Apple does. This is why Apple never needs to be first to release.
Back before the iPod there were MP3 players on the market. Before the iPhone there were phones that purported to surf the web, or was that the WAP? Lol! And before the iPad there were tablets, mostly being used in warehouses to count inventory. Apple has this nasty habit of releasing products, second, third, a year late, two years late, and too expensive for some people's taste. But once those Apple products arrive, it seems everything that had come before is soon forgotten. This time will be no different.
There are ads that tear you out of Safari with a forced iTunes link, but they seem to only work on mobile devices.
Report it to Kasper and hopefully he’ll get rid of it.
Upstage Apple like with there dumb watch! LOL! Apple is going to make them look pitiful with the products they release. And after Apple does release its own stuff you watch within 6 months you will see a total redesign of Samsung's products that will look exactly like Apple's.
Just like after the iPhone came out there were none with touch displays, after Apple though everyones went to touch displays, well except maybe Blackberry which ignored there doom until it was to late.
Hah! I can't wait for another DED Before/After graphic.
His one on Samsung phones before/after the iPhone is a classic.
South Korea isn't all bad (some NSFW):
And they try to be everywhere to cover all possibilities. It's possible to get a hit that way but as their attempt at a fingerprint sensor and watch showed, if you don't do it right then it doesn't have the same impact.
Samsung makes good components - display panels, SSDs, CPUs, memory, which is why Apple uses them but they are shameless about copying product ideas.
Whoever wrote and approved that needs to work in their skills. You want to excite tantalize and entice not turn off people.
Samsung is a great manufacturer and sales company. Why can't they just hire away Apple employees or other people to think of their own new awesome products?
Whether or not it's justified their reputation is overwheingly that of a copy cat who increasingly copies the cool kid in order to be popular.
5S and S5? Really?
"A conversation around health" is the least sexy sounding thing ever! It sounds like I am tuning into a round table discussion about generalized health topics.
Whoever wrote and approved that needs to work in their skills. You want to excite tantalize and entice not turn off people.
Who wrote it? Samsung did- duh. Just a copy of "Let's talk iPhone" or the numerous one-liner invites Apple has done throughout the years.
But in typical Samsung fashion, it doesn't come close to being as well executed as Apple.
All this does is confirm Apple is still the top dog, the one to beat, the one people pay attention to. That Samsung feels it just has to announce something to upstage Apple says it all, that they’re the also-ran, not the one the industry follows, not the one people look to for leadership.
Agreed. 100%
Samsung do refrigerators. "We OWN you, Apple, in kitchen appliances!"
If they got their act together, building an IoT's in the home is a good thing. I can think of some coolness... "Do I have beer in the fridge?" And a PTZ camera scans your fridge for beer. From your phone, tablet, tv... "Is my laundry load done? is are the clothes in the dryer dry?" These are things Samsung 'could' integrate into their world.... but because they are 10 different companies, not gonna happen.
But that would take more than 24 months of planning, and in most companies, thinking 9 months ahead on product is a death sentence.
It's like AirPlay for Apple. it took 2 years for that to evolve around the product set. Probably 2 more years for it to refine. Buy then, advices and Apple TV are 4-8X more powerful, 'ac' networking is fully fleshed out (10x more network), I can see iBeacon technology moving into the home, and the functionality becomes ubiquity.
Ob Health thing... you walk by your kitchen cabinet at 8am. Your phone 'reminds' you to take your meds. You walk away... It BEEPS you to GET BACK and TAKE YOUR MEDS.... (basically reminders plus iBeacon). If you don't, you get a call from your 'Nice Nurse' who calls you and reminds you to take your meds... and that friendly voice is heeded ("I like that nurse.... she always calls me and checks up on me"). In a future world, the med bottle is iConnected, as is a monitor to see if your BP, HR, hopefully even drug blood levels are within norms. as 20-40 somethings we think this is silly... but taking care of my MiL, that was exactly the sort of thing that pushed her to full care (forgetting to take her meds). So now insurance/medicare are paying parts of 18,000/year for effectively someone to remind her to take her pills and eat. Something that could have been delayed for 3-5 years.
An App. iBeacon, an FDA approved app. something on the skin monitoring her (iWatch? or something an iDevice talks to). Probably $200 in cost Insurance companies/gov't pay for it ($200 vs $18,000...), because it reduces acute care demands dramatically. multiple by 500 million people in Europe and US who fall under socialized medicine are over 60 years old. Looks to me about a 10-15B a year market.
Can Samsung do that?
The invitation looks very dull.
Whoever wrote and approved that needs to work in their skills. You want to excite tantalize and entice not turn off people.
I agree. Very poor design for an invitation or even an ad. All black background is awful, especially if your topic is health related, you would want to have a bright, clean, sanitary look. Then there is the all caps, set solid headline, very ugly. The wavy stuff at the bottom might look ok on white but simply extra crap on the page just for decoration, useless. Formal invitation to follow - what a joke. The whole style of the artwork is dreadful. What is wrong with them? They should have just copied Apple's invitations.
Truly embarrassing company.
Almost like this is a game to them....one I hope they lose very badly. I wonder if they lose this case if they'll be like they are now or if they'll put their tail between their legs and no longer do these things?
I don't really know what they're going to get out of this anyways. As soon as WWDC happens and Apple announces their stuff, everyone will forget what Samsung did a week prior to WWDC. Microsoft used to do this all the time too and it never worked so I'm not sure why Samsung will think it works for them.
Hey, don't knock it. Samsung is updating it will Health features !
I'm thinking - a stopwatch (with alarm)
A pedometer with gps (so you know how far you have walked.)
A calculator (for working out health related math)
A torch (for nighttime jogging)
A fully touch based screen ( for viewing heathy websites - very small)
Waterproof for swimming, surfing etc.
A camera for those exciting 'surfing action' stills.
Tough plastic case for danger sports, rock climbing, base jumping etc.
I'm sure there is more those Samsung genius' have thought of, the sky is the limit!
Apple must be quaking right now !