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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.
#DeleteFacebook
Everyone knows the iPhone is superior anyway. When other companies mention your brand in their ads, you have already won.
"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?
Watch the ads as if they're really short movies, to be entertained instead of learning something.
It's worth watching the Samsung had if only for the haircut of the guy waiting in line for the iPhone X. I found that very funny.
And it's worth watching the Motorola ad, just because AFAIK it's the first time a sequel for an ad was made by a competitor. Also funny.
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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?
Will people ever get tired of mockery and posturing and "them vs. us" nonsense? Aren't we tired of it already?
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.
The Samsung advert features a dude getting an iPhone in 2007 and being thrilled with it, then it shows him running out of phone storage space. It then shows his upgrades over the years, with a chick he's dating having a big screen Samsung, etc. There's a pretty great one where he has excellent headphones, plugged through a multi-dongle so he can listen to music on good headphones and change his phone at the same time, and the ad makes sure to show the ludicrous nest of wires while he tries to snuggle with his chick on the couch. You get to see him and his gal fall into the water, and the subsequent iPhone-in-rice trick, while hers continues to work. The final scene shows him with a Samsung looking somewhat disdainfully at the people in line at an Apple store. I'd judge it is reasonable effective as an advert, and I certainly found it amusing- though, I did wonder if Samsungs still have headphone jacks- I thought they got rid of them for no reason, just as Apple and Google did.
The Motorola advert is much smaller in scope, and takes place directly after the Samsung ad, where he shows his chick the scene of them having a great time at the beach, and she throws down her Motorola with a projector addon and puts it on the wall. It's cute, but the whole switch-the-magical-components thing is pretty nerdy, and Motorola is going for another market with that IMO.
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.
Samsung does still have an earphone jack. I've got the new note 8 and it's there.
It was actually a deciding factor between the note and the new pixel.
That and it has a sd card slot as well.
... where either the guy or his girlfriend catch on fire when the Samsung's battery explodes.
BTW --
(1) You can install custom ROMs on many Android devices that aren't tied to a Google or Apple ID.
(2) iPhones? Reliable? Hahahahaha. Maybe they're "reliable", but any device where you have to resort to disassembly or paying more than the cost of an actual battery to replace the battery is hardly "durable."
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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Which is great if you
1) Trust the developer(s)
2) Aren't afraid of bricking your phone
3) Don't care if some of the phone's features don't work
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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The Samsung ad shows him with an iPhone and a pretty girl in all the scenes. The last scene shows him having a Samsung... alone.
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My favourite thing was that YouTube then auto-played more Samsung vs Apple adverts from over the years. The first one was of the Galaxy S5, mocking the iPhone for its non-removable battery by having a cluster of iPhone users at an airport all huddled around a charging station while the Samsung guy just swapped his battery. The new Samsung phone has a non-removable battery. I wonder how something goes from the thing that you use to differentiate from your competition to a missing feature so quickly...
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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".
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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