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Motorola Ad Mocks Samsung Ad Mocking Apple (bgr.com)
An anonymous reader quotes BGR:
A few days after the iPhone X launched in stores, Samsung came out with an anti-iPhone campaign... I actually did not expect Samsung to pull off cheap tricks like that, but it sure looks like the iPhone X is a pretty scary device to fight against. But what probably nobody saw coming is Motorola trolling Samsung with an ad of its own... The "Up-upgrade to Motorola" ad offers the alternate ending to Samsung's ad, as Motorola explains on its Facebook page... Motorola doesn't even mention the iPhone X, so if you haven't seen Samsung's ad, you'd think it's just going after Galaxy handsets.
Elsewhere on Facebook, Motorola specifically referenced the attachable accessories available for their Moto Z when mocking the Galaxy Note 8.
"Why settle for edge-to-edge, when you could project your screen up to 70 inches?"
Elsewhere on Facebook, Motorola specifically referenced the attachable accessories available for their Moto Z when mocking the Galaxy Note 8.
"Why settle for edge-to-edge, when you could project your screen up to 70 inches?"
"Why settle for edge-to-edge, when you could project your screen up to 70 inches?"
Because unless the projection is done at a 4k+ resolution it’s gonna look like shit. Oh and the fact that next no one would ever do this in the first place.
Blackberry's ad to mock Motorola's ad that mocks the Samsung ad that's mocking Apple.
Alternative post:
“Yo Dawg, I herd you like mocking, so I put a mock in your ad so you can mock while you mock.”
Or something. Sorry if I didn't do it right, I'm not black.
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Everyone knows the iPhone is superior anyway. When other companies mention your brand in their ads, you have already won.
I haven't seen any of the ads, and I'm not about to click those links. Anyone know what points, if any, the ads made?
Samsung, Apple and Motorola have pretty much gone into obscurity around here. ... ridiculously overpriced.
Boring, nothing new, no choice, lower build quality than top China phones, and
I’m no fan of either the Chinese or the US state as such, but I don’t blame it on the people. Especially if they are actually doing a good job. So I gladly support some business that tries to be a role model, no matter if it is in an evil state. After all, my support might be the feather that tips the scale and enables good things to flourish.
"Why settle for edge-to-edge, when you could project your screen up to 70 inches?"
Because the quality of that projection is likely garbage?
Motorola is considered garbage in Sweden after years of useless phones
I actually did not expect Samsung to pull off cheap tricks like that
You mean directly comparing features you have to your competitors is cheap tricks? Did you just discover advertising? I'm sure everyone's better, like Apple totally not featuring "PCs" in their adverts, and Microsoft would never feature Google.
Seriously man, have you never seen an advert before?
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> Samsung, Apple and Motorola have pretty much gone into obscurity around here.
Apple earned 24 BILLION dollars last quarter by selling iPhones. But, yeah, Apple is dying I guess.
Will people ever get tired of mockery and posturing and "them vs. us" nonsense? Aren't we tired of it already?
Do you have a version for CP/M 86? It's the only secure operating system out there that runs on IBM PCs and compatibles.
Motorola G4 Play and G5 are great. Solid quality, headphone jack, removable battery and SD card-expandable storage, as all phones should have. G4 Play can typically be had for $100-125 US, if not less.
Having a border around the screen protects it (generally the most expensive/fragile part of a phone) from damage better. And makes it easier to design a case that protects the phone.
"Edge-to-edge" is code for planned obsolescence in my book.
Motorola is pretty much the last of the three I'd go for, if anything because Lenovo is behind it, the company that gave you malware on firmware but people are still buying it for some reason.
But really, the mods are a joke. They were overpriced and underperformed for the most part, launched with ridiculous price and now that Motorola realized no one if getting them, they are trying to offload as many as possible by throwing them together. That Essencial Phone thing will suffer the same fate.
The only recent development I like from Motorola is the Android One phone, but given price and specs (internationally I mean), I opted for a Xiaomi Mi A1 instead. Specs are overall better and price is lower, again, international market.
I'd rather...
1. Use regular text/talk. Texting is even free outside the US for many carriers.
Then would you be willing to foot the airtime bill when you communicate with someone in the US, for whom neither making PSTN calls nor receiving PSTN calls nor sending SMS texts nor receiving SMS texts is free? T-Mobile USA's basic pay-as-you-go plan, for example, comes with 30 monthly incoming or outgoing minutes or texts, and each additional costs 10 cents. T-Mobile supports Wi-Fi calling and texting, but only calls or texts through an app such as Discord or Skype are unmetered. Wi-Fi calls through the PSTN and texts through SMS are metered the same as those through the cellular network.
2. Crypto currencies? If I want to be anonymous, I'd pay cash.
That works until you wish to purchase a product that is sold only outside bicycle range of your home or to sell a product to someone outside bicycle range of your home. It's not advisable to mail cash.
... where either the guy or his girlfriend catch on fire when the Samsung's battery explodes.
I have to have one. I choose Apple every time for these reasons:
- I don't like the Alphabet ad machine or what they represent (I use zero Alphabet/Google products)
- Android is balkanized and updates are never guaranteed
- I like nothing on my smartphone save the OEM apps (I use no other apps)
- iPhones are typically more reliable all things considered
It's difficult to call Motorola an "up-upgrade" when my Motorola Rarz phone delayed 2 years for the promised OS Android update. My brother that brought Samsung had like 3 or 4 in that time.
The Motorola G4 Plus and E5 have been great phone for my family. Great screens. The stock Android apps is a key feature I wanted. I haven't been impressed with Samsung and LG app software.
It's not directly comparing though, the Samsung ad has multiple references to iPhone battery being not as good as a Samsung in various ways - but that is simply not the case, the iPhone X battery life in particular has been excellent. It also references past areas the iPhone lagged behind other camera like waterproofness which it now has. Samsung gives far more optimistic estimates that do not pan out as well as they say in real use.
I've never needed to charge while using headphones as I either use the phone in the car with audio over USB, or used wireless headphones, or sometimes the headphones from the box..
Also showing her charging age phone on a "wireless" charger while he has headphones and charging port connected convinetly edits out the ugly mess of cables that is there permanently because of where she placed the wireless charger - not to mention he took out his charging plug after fifteen minutes with it well topped up, while hers had to stay on the charger for a good hour or so to get much out of it, in the meantime she couldn't use the phone...
So basically to me the whole entire Samsung ad is very misleading as to what using an iPhone is like for real people today.
On a side note I'd also say that relationship is in serious trouble if he's using his phone with the headphones on instead of paying attention to her when she's just sitting there.
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The ad looks like it's targeted at the two people in the world at home with no TV but have smartphones. Any recent smart TV will most likely support Chromecast. Or you know spend the $20 to get a Chromecast instead of the $100+ for the projector add-on.
Motorola might have a nice phone, but this ugly projector thing it sticks to? 2017? Not very trendy these days, better implement a BT or similar device.
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What motorola did is a step above trolling - as the object of their trolling is a troll itself
But I admit, motorola got this trolling the troll ad all the way to the level of zen --- the zen of advertising
Motorola doesn't even mention the iPhone X, so if you haven't seen Samsung's ad, you'd think it's just going after Galaxy handsets.
The Motorola ad doesn't mention Samsung either, so if you haven't seen Samsung's ad, you wouldn't know they were going after any specific handset.
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I think most smartphone buyers are already locked into a ecosystem for a smartphone. How many really jump from one brand to another? People get familiar with features and brand loyalty so its hard to imagine many switch on a whim. Most have too much vested in a smartphone platform to buy into any of the ad hype.
They pull such cheap tricks, indeed! They should have instead come up with a civilized advertisment, about a guy saying "I'm an iPhone" and his one condescending friend called "A Galaxy".
That 'simulated screen image' looks awful, and it's far brighter and more legible than any pico projector would actually be. Even a laser projector doesn't have that kind of brightness in a daylight environment.
It's time for Motorola to realize they're not keeping up.
Because reading text projected at 854x480 at 14 ppi with a max brightness of a paltry 50 lumens is pleasant to do?
Yeah, it's a bit disappointing that they went for a DLP technology and not a laser beamscanning technology as their past partnership with microvision (gives better apparent brightness and crazy high contrast ratios even at lower lumen ratings).
But on the other hand, that's already plenty enough good specs for netflix and chill~
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Meanwhile, Apple is selling millions of iPhones and having issues supplying demand.
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