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Re: [iPhone] iPhone 5 - Most anticipated and expensive junk

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reply to Asterix
Tomorrow is the day guys!

reply to gjrhine

Oh nevermind. They are sticking to their record sales stories.

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reply to MJimLay
I'm tempted to do the same. iOS 6 is such a piece of shit I'm seriously considering refusing my iPhone 5 shipment tomorrow. The bugs I know will eventually get worked out but changes like search in the App Store are permanent and make it unusable for discovering new apps. No decent Youtube app, no street view in maps, the OS is bloated and slow even on my iPad 3. It's a piece of crap.

Desktop page flips are slow, the app store page changes are slow, overall it's sluggish compared to iOS 5, even the mail app runs slower in pulling up message attachments (eg PDFs) that are supposed to already be on the device. They just take too long to open and render. It's frustrating.

reply to skeechan
This one is funny

So Samsung is counter-marketing pointing out that Apple has LINES around the block for its products...way to remind people about the popularity of iPhone, dumbasses! Where did they get their marketing degrees? Crackerjacks?

...methinks Samsung would kill for a product that anyone gave a shit about forget line up around the block for.

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reply to skeechan

They're not tops in terms of smartphone profits...not remotely close. It's not what you make, it's what you keep.

Meanwhile the ad is REALLY stupid advertising. Consumers aren't receptive to insults in advertising (unless they're already gidiots) and the message is ultimately iPhone is hugely popular, so popular they have lines around the block, and perspective buyers are going to wonder why. They're going to know it isn't about where the headphone jack is.

the ad is an insult to fanbois.
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Which isn't going to lure them to another platform. It is gidiot marketing, and like all things Android, not well thought out.

Wouldn't that be kinda like saying the Macintosh 1984 commercial was gonna lead people to IBM? Because so many people were sitting watching the IBM guy talk and their were soldiers..

Or that they'll stay using IBM or ibm clones, instead of being lured to Macintosh?

No, the target audience for that Mac commercial in 1984 were people who DIDN'T USE computers AT ALL because they were too complicated or perceived as such. They weren't corporate suits imprisoned by IBM. The target was average folks. Even for IBM users the girl was giving you a way out, that IBM victimized you as a distant tyrant, trapping you in a DOS world. Existing users were the oppressed masses trapped for reasons beyond their control.

Quit different from the Samsung add which would have portrayed users buying IBMs because they were beige and had a new button on the left side of the case instead of the right.

That particular Samsung commercial was idiocy and whoever did it was probably fired as it goes against EVERY lesson in advertising, first being don't insult your target audience. You can insult your rivals, insult rival devices but NEVER the target of your ads.

"Hey you iOS Crayon eating 'tards...get yer dick out of that chicken and try a $200 android handset ya dumbasses"

Samsung needs to sell the device based on its capabilities...in other words, you insult the iPhone device itself just as Apple insulted Windows Vista as being a piece of crap NEVER the users which Samsung did. But in marketing genius, even when insulting Vista...the Hodgeman character was an endearing character. THAT is how you do advertising.