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rogifan_new said:

lkrupp said:

I am amused by the hypocrisy of the “specs mean everything" crowd. Apple has been hammered by this crowd incessantly for years. Geekbench tests have been hung around Apple’s neck like a millstone. Now comes Apple’s custom designed processors that smoke the competition and, miracle of miracles, suddenly these tests are flawed and meaningless. Granted, if you were to put the A11 in an Android phone it probably wouldn’t improve performance much, if any, because of the software. But to the spec monkeys the 8 core Snapdragon simply has to outperform the 6 core A11 because, well, 6 is less than 8. Simple arithmetic, right?

Since when do Apple fans care about specs? I thought it was all about user experience? 

anton zuykov said:

JoeBee said:

Economic boom, lol. Imaginary numbers while wages are down, jobs are vanishing, our schools are war zones and real people are suffering on the street. If Turkey is a disaster waiting to happen, it's only because they are a few steps further down the same road we are on.

Wages are down? Really? Everywhere I go it says they are hiring. The economy grew quite a bit better for the last two years. UNemployment is really low. 
The fact that schools are war zones is a responsibility of those who vote for local politicians and determine, what is done in those schools. In any free country there will be people on streets that suffer, if that was their choice. You CANT do anything about it for precicely that reason alone.

nunzy said:

Since when did Apple base design decisions on what foreigners want?

jbdragon said:

I’m on Googles side with this.  If the EU doesn’t like it, they can spend the time and money making their own OS and do with it as they see fit.

teknishn said:

I hate to be the guy that says it, but..... Fake news. 

Thats you Bloomberg.  You are fake news.   That being said, maybe you can do some real investigative reporting and figure out who really was infiltrated. 

tmay said:

gatorguy said:

tmay said:

Soli said:

Aloysius said:

Soli said:

These are solid ads.

Eh, I don't think so really. At least not on attracting new customers.

I think this whole ad campaign is great at making Samsung's customers feel better that they made the superior choice. It's preaching to the choir, so to speak.

I have trouble thinking the average person is concerned about the notch (considering just about every phone has one now), sd card slots (it may be expandable, but a pain when you need to transfer data if you outgrow one and don't have a pc), or split screen. At least not as buzz words. 

If these things are truly important, than show it in action and sell the benefits, not just listen a few random things the iPhone doesn't have.

1) I"m not sure what you mean by "new customers."

2) I think these videos are good because they're targeting their base well. These are not for iPhone users (although they'd love to get some switchers from Android). On a minor level I think these are people that have never used a smartphone but have heard various chatter from the Android-using masses about how Apple doesn't do this or that and how Apple just charges you for for their brand name. Mostly, I think these ads are targeted towards Android users. People that already make those dumb comments about Apple sucks to justify their current crap device. These ads target those people.

This is just Samsung positioning itself as "Android's iPhone", and I agree that it is targeted at existing Samsung customers especially those that might me be lured to some to the other Premium Android OS devices.

Still, Apple's ecosystem remains unparalleled, so I don't see many current iPhone users leaving, and certainly the data shows more entering.

Increasingly that's the same with Android users. Both camps are pretty well ensconced. Apple users will remain Apple users and Android owners are even more likely to remain with Android according to the report from last month. 

You might be referring to this report;

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/10/apples-ios-loyalty-rate-is-lower-than-googles-android-but-apple-may-steal-more-users-each-year/#258d10f268a8

Indicates a likely net gain of users to iOS, but loyalty rate favors Android OS

iOS switchers

• 86% loyalty during 2017 (therefore 14% switch)
• 215.8 million iPhones sold
• “Lost” about 30 million to Android

Android switchers

• 91% loyalty rate during 2017 (therefore 9% switch)
• 1.244 billion Android smartphones sold
• “Lost” about 112 million to iOS

No mention of what is happening to remaining Windows phone users...

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hentaiboy said:

This is probably one of the more balanced reviews:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/05/review-ipad-pro-pencil-12-9-inch/

"If Apple is able to let go a bit and execute better on making sure the software feels as flexible and “advanced” as the hardware, the iPad Pro has legs. If it isn’t able to do that, then the iPad will remain a dead-end. But I have hope. In the shape of an expensive-ass pencil".