The population of Iceland is about 310,000 people. Only about 55% tops are going to be the age of users of smartphones. I don't know what their salaries are like or if they're buying high-end smartphones. I'm not trashing Iceland by any means and I'm sure it's a fine place to live if you don't mind the cold and like to watch volcanoes, but whether Apple makes an impact on this market or not it really doesn't matter. There's just not enough of a consumer base to win over. Samsung definitely deserves to dominate smartphone market share in Iceland because they have a wider range of products at various price-points.
Apple is failing and Timmy Cook had better get Siri to speak Icelandic instead of spending seven years making iOS all white on a tiny screen, or else Apple's stock price will remain in the toilet how dare you question the wisdom of Wall St. /s
No offence, I meant to reference famous situations/countries wherein it's your genetic heritage that matters for citizenship.
Historically, Israel has acted in the same way as Germany did during the war in that regard. They don't of course send the non-citizens to the gas chamber, but they still use the same criteria to decide who's a "real" citizen.
Iceland has very high wages but a high cost of living, they do buy smartphones but the majority of them speak English very well so this isn't an issue.
I think it's funny that Samsung and other companies feel the need to talk crap about apple products to make there own look better, but yet apple is still number 1, and doesn't have to put down other companies in commercials to sell there products. Apple products just sell on there own. The end...
#27: The State of Israel does not have Nuremberg laws. You're just trying to equate Nazi Germany with Israel for reasons that clearly have nothing to do with a Samsung advertisement.
Maybe it's a hint that the next Android operating system will be called "Mountain Goat." How ironic they use a highly inbred Icelandic goat to promote their Shamsung phone with its fragmented software. Chek out the Icelandic goat wiki page: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_goat
Apple Insider; if you're going to link to videos you should be sure the videos on those pages work.
The ad was not funny to me. Perhaps there is a cultural meme in the ad that is not understood by Americans. I understood the premise of the ad just not the humor.
They're really reaching now. This smells of desperation.
Because everyone is desperate to sell a few ten thousands of phones to the ~320K Icelandic phone subscribers?
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Originally Posted by Smallwheels
The ad was not funny to me. Perhaps there is a cultural meme in the ad that is not understood by Americans. I understood the premise of the ad just not the humor.
Agreed. Something doesn't come across in translation. But then, the ad was likely created in Iceland and not meant for anyone outside of there.
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You keep astounding.
It looks like a male sheep, called ram. Not a goat.
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Well there's a weird statement.
No offence, I meant to reference famous situations/countries wherein it's your genetic heritage that matters for citizenship.
Historically, Israel has acted in the same way as Germany did during the war in that regard. They don't of course send the non-citizens to the gas chamber, but they still use the same criteria to decide who's a "real" citizen.
Ugh!
I thought we'd get at least one goats.ex reference by now!
Thanks, Samsung, your commercials are as strange as your products.
But it HAS GOATS! How many Apple ads can say the same?
The ad was not funny to me. Perhaps there is a cultural meme in the ad that is not understood by Americans. I understood the premise of the ad just not the humor.
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Originally Posted by iSteelers
They're really reaching now. This smells of desperation.
Because everyone is desperate to sell a few ten thousands of phones to the ~320K Icelandic phone subscribers?
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Originally Posted by Smallwheels
The ad was not funny to me. Perhaps there is a cultural meme in the ad that is not understood by Americans. I understood the premise of the ad just not the humor.
Agreed. Something doesn't come across in translation. But then, the ad was likely created in Iceland and not meant for anyone outside of there.
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Originally Posted by KDarling
Because everyone is desperate to sell a few ten thousands of phones to the ~320K Icelandic phone subscribers?
Agreed. Something doesn't come across in translation. But then, the ad was likely created in Iceland and not meant for anyone outside of there.
It must be a type of regional humor. The moment I saw this it reminded me of a cross between a Microsoft Surface commercial and Mummenschanz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz