Samsung takes Apple obsession to next level with new Galaxy ad

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  • Reply 81 of 135
    flaneurflaneur Posts: 4,526member
    That's not marketing. You gotta sex it up. Make that $2 Indian bicycle part look like a $2 million part crafted by digital artisans. :lol:

    Here's the same photo, lit with "hero lighting," ready for advertising:

    <img alt="" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="58697" data-type="61" src="http://forums.appleinsider.com/content/type/61/id/58697/width/350/height/700/flags/LL" style="; width: 350px; height: 387px">

    Off on a tangent again, are you? So that you miss the point, just like the "filmmakers" did?

    The problem is the amount of useless, snaggy thread hanging out on that screw, and the mishmash of jamb nuts being used to lock down the screw, nuts that look like they came from the 99 cents store.

    This was probably shot in Uncle Ernie's garage in Queens. A machinist who cared would use a shorter screw if he absolutely had to rig up some mess like this. No way would he want anyone to see it as an example of his work.

    So you're telling us the problem is fixable in post? Nice.
  • Reply 82 of 135
    howmanoidhowmanoid Posts: 14member



    We are Samsung. Next is somebody else's ideas. 

     

    We suck. 

  • Reply 83 of 135
    croprcropr Posts: 1,142member

     I don't think one can give Samsung the "credit" of copying the ideas of an ad.  Ads are made by marketing communication companies, and the one that made the Samsung ad, was apparently not in a very creative mode.  

    Ideas for marketing communication are not protected by any means, so ideas that worked in the past are picked up by others and repackaged

  • Reply 84 of 135
    sphericspheric Posts: 2,703member
    kpom wrote: »
    On Macrumors someone pointed out that the speaker used the term "aluminum" instead of the British "aluminium."

    Yeah, I was going to mention that. He also has a slight lisp, but that might be the de-esser kicking in a little too aggressively in the studio.

    Listening to him, I got the impression that he's not British - he's Korean, but from an international school background.

    Just a hunch, though.
  • Reply 85 of 135
    jungmarkjungmark Posts: 6,927member
    dasanman69 wrote: »
    How does a Philly boy become a Yankees fan?

    Have you seen the Phillies play? Haha. I'm a fan.

    I think his dad was a Yankees fan since the Phillies were dreadful back in the day while the yanks won a lot.
  • Reply 86 of 135
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    idrey wrote: »
    Lol! It makes my friends mad when ever I ask them "why does your iPhone says Samsung on it?" Yet they is nothing they can say. And the battery life is bad on the s6

    I doubt that ever happens.
  • Reply 87 of 135
    nolamacguynolamacguy Posts: 4,758member
    flaneur wrote: »
    This thinness "obsession" of Apple's is a cliché.

    Electronic technology has always had a built-in mandate to minimize space used, thus integrated circuits, Moore's Law, etc.

    Nature has the same mandate. You want to say that DNA is the result of an obsession, go ahead.

    Agreed. Were Apple not continually learning how to shrink things into smaller footprints they wouldn't be able to release new products like the watch.
  • Reply 88 of 135
    anomeanome Posts: 1,545member
    flabber wrote: »
    And they still believe they didn't and aren't copying Apple.
    Oh, no. They know full well what they're doing, they're just convinced no-one will notice. Or if they do, they'll get away with it.
    matrix07 wrote: »
    It's just sad. This company has no identity. Google at least has one.
    Or, as Walter Sobchak put it, so succinctly...
    Nihilists! **** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
    Well, OK, that's not strictly about Samsung and Google, but you get the idea.
  • Reply 89 of 135
    euphoniouseuphonious Posts: 303member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by RaoulDuke42 View Post



    after extolling the material "design" aspects of their latest cheapest parts amalgamation

     

    Because that QHD screen and 16MP camera are really bargain basement compared to what you get in an iPhone 6...

  • Reply 90 of 135
    suddenly newtonsuddenly newton Posts: 13,819member
    spheric wrote: »
    Listening to him, I got the impression that he's not British - he's Korean, but from an international school background.

    Just a hunch, though.

    In other words, an imitation British accent! Seems fitting for Sammy. :lol:
  • Reply 91 of 135
    kenckenc Posts: 195member

    Why is everyone so sure the voiceover was by a Brit? Sounded Australian to me.

  • Reply 92 of 135
    evningevning Posts: 8member
    Actually there are plenty that while technically right, are also technically meaningless because they are right by a wide margin.

    Namely, the materials and measuring in nanometers.

    First, the materials are by no means impossible.

    Curved glass are used extensively in architecture.

    Aluminium are used in auto parts, aircraft parts, ladders, etc. a good percentage of those auto and aircraft parts are milled, for their purposes, they are so hard that they don't dent when dropped, so i am pretty sure their aluminium are denser then a phone's

    And diamond tipped bits are nothing new, what do you think we used when steel bits could not do the job? Lasers? They are not the most cost effective option for most commercial projects and Lasers are presently confined to cutting 2D shapes from sheets of materials in terms of mass production.

    Why did they not mention their curved oled? Thats something that actually is novel!

    But the one thing that really caught my attention was that bit about measuring in nanometers. I would like to explain something and then let you know what i think of that. First off, some information.

    A nanometer is

    1/1,000,000,000 of a meter, or 0.000000001 or a meter.

    Most manufacturing industry measures in microns or in terms of micro meters,

    Which is 1/1,000,000 of a meter, or 0.000001 of a meter.

    Now, thermal expansion,

    Going from 20°c to 21°c,

    A strip of 10 cm long aluminium strip would grow by about 2.4microns, or 0.0000024 of a meter.

    A strip of 10cm long glass, would grow by about
    0.9microns, or 0.0000009 of a meter.

    What this means is that if you were looking for deviations on the order of nanometers, you are looking for deviations of +/-0.0000000xx of a meter. Coupled with thermal expansion, your results will fluctuate by thousands of nanometers off because you cannot absolutely control temperature(human touch transfer heat for instance). Your measurements are literally functionally useless when viewed at the nanometer scale, you might as well use the micrometer scale.

    So all in all with all that considered, i thus would like to state for the record that, That video is full of bullshit.

    ---

    Addon:

    Here are some objects that measure about 10 micron :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_micrometres

    Notice at the end paper is just under 100 microns thick,
    Blood cells are about 10 microns wide,

    This goes further to show,

    A) you wont see thermal expansion of 2microns and

    B) nanometer precision is nonsensical.
  • Reply 93 of 135
    magman1979magman1979 Posts: 1,301member
    euphonious wrote: »
    Because that QHD screen and 16MP camera are really bargain basement compared to what you get in an iPhone 6...
    Another Scamsung supporting troll, how quaint.
  • Reply 94 of 135
    lercylercy Posts: 2member
    [VIDEO]

    You can compare wit this video.
  • Reply 95 of 135
    lercylercy Posts: 2member

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  • Reply 96 of 135
    flaneurflaneur Posts: 4,526member
    [B]^Evning[/B], good work there, I had let that nono-puffery slide right by.

    Who wrote this trash, I wonder? Which is the ad agency we should congratulate for coming up with this?

    Where is real business journalism to be found now?
  • Reply 97 of 135
    zhzubair5zhzubair5 Posts: 1member

    Samsung is copying everything they can from Apple, except the one thing that makes them successful: a commitment to creating superlative products that delight their customers. Samsung is motivated solely by greed, and to them everything else is just a means to achieve that end. The results speaks for themselves.

  • Reply 98 of 135
    flaneurflaneur Posts: 4,526member
    So I was wrong about the wonky-tooling scene being shot at Uncle Ernie's garage in Queens.

    The ad agency is [B]72andSunny[/B], the same LA ultracool hipster sell-outs who were responsible for the Samsung ads that mocked the Apple line-waiters for the iPhone 5 (?).

    So the offending "tooling" shot was probably snagged somewhere locally, near the wasteland of ex-aerospace job shops that surround their offices in Westchester and Inglewood.

    How would these clowns know what real tooling looks like anyway? They spend as much time getting manicures as their wives used to spend, back when such people had wives. Probably they don't even put air in their tires.

    If Samsung had any integrity they'd fire these effete "creatives" for making the company a laughing-stock.
  • Reply 99 of 135
    joshajosha Posts: 901member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by FreeRange View Post



    This company doesn't have an original creative bone in their body. They should hang their heads in shame. But instead they see stealing as a virtue, thumbing their nose at intellectual property on a worldwide basis.



    Right on, Samsung terribly lacks creativity.

    They have been fairly successful copying Apple's products,

       but have come out with a few ideas on their own, which they soon drop.

    After Apple got after Samsung for their obvious copying, Samsung have been sadly lacking in their designs.

  • Reply 100 of 135
    suddenly newtonsuddenly newton Posts: 13,819member
    lercy wrote: »
    [VIDEO]

    You can compare wit this video.

    LOL ;)
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