lulz.

Go ahead and have your amazing shit phone and your amazing shit marketplace with amazing shit apps. I'll keep my iPhone.

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Exactly - lame iPhone fashionistas abound but that doesn't mean the device isn't a SciFi wet dream for nerds. Hate the iPhoners not the iPhone.>> ^braindonut:

lulz.
Go ahead and have your amazing shit phone and your amazing shit marketplace with amazing shit apps. I'll keep my iPhone.

Or remain ambivalent about consumer products - let's not forget that option.

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Sure neo-luddism is always waiting with comforting arms. (and a blindfold) >> ^kymbos:

Or remain ambivalent about consumer products - let's not forget that option.

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Oh yeah, that's right - I'm the one with the problem.>> ^dag:

Sure neo-luddism is always waiting with comforting arms. (and a blindfold) >> ^kymbos:
Or remain ambivalent about consumer products - let's not forget that option.

Someone's not happy about being sued.

That's the best attack ad I've seen in awhile. Maybe Samsung should move into politics. I'm a creative.

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(hipster #1)i can never get a samsung, i'm creative.
(hipster #2) dude you're a barista.
Schooled!

>> ^RedSky:

Someone's not happy about being sued.


Which direction are you referring to? They are each locking the other company out of some countries sales. Here is a chart which shows who owns the most mobile patents... I wouldn't advise messing with Samsung!
http://www.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/patent1.jpg

I thought this was a sketch, when I realised it was an ad for the phone I have, I cringed. It's a phone. It's just a phone. OK, it's not just a phone, it's also a camera, a web browser and so on and I like it, but it's just an electronic device.

Having loyalty to a manufacturer or an operating system is seriously messed up. If you think your choice of phone says something about who you are, then actually, you're right. It does say something; it says you are someone whose priorities are messed up.

Whether it be Apple or Android, nVidia or AMD, or whatever, it is an abusive, one way relationship with someone who only loves you for your money.

Not me, I love my Galaxy S2!! and I've HATED cell phones and everything about them forever. p.s. plus my Galaxy loves me!

lols looks like Samsung touched a nerve

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I dunno, based on the various tech blogs, Apple suing Samsung tends to be the most high profile one.>> ^deathcow:

>> ^RedSky:
Someone's not happy about being sued.

Which direction are you referring to? They are each locking the other company out of some countries sales. Here is a chart which shows who owns the most mobile patents... I wouldn't advise messing with Samsung!
http://www.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/patent1.jpg

heh heh, nice vid...

here in china, the iphone is all the rage - but like the vid implies, people here buy it mostly for the name recognition and 'prestige' ... even when the features don't match up to the latest devices by samsung, htc, etc

although most of these phones and/or their components are made right here, the masses seem less tech savvy than westerners

case in point, i'll be sitting around with chinese friends and everybody's got their smartphones at hand... i'll start doing a comparison of the various handsets, and they'll just stare blankly... go silent for a minute or so, and then blurt out, 'but this is an iphone!' hahaha

right now they're all excited about the iphone 4s, and especially siri - i haven't yet had the heart to tell them that siri doesn't support chinese (in fact, most people don't seem to be aware that siri was available over a year ago, but apple snapped up the company, reworked the app, and launched it with the 4s as something new and revolutionary)

anyway, it's all funny - i'm pleased as pie with my htc... with better camera, vid resolution, memory, processor, screen size, and gps -- zero problems and more fun and free apps than i have time for... as well, my provider gave it to me for free (~us$700) after 10+ years of customer loyalty

only possible gripe would be battery life, but between the recharges i get while driving, sitting at the comp, or even with my portable recharger (us$28), it's never really been much of an issue

>> ^Diogenes:

i'll start doing a comparison of the various handsets, and they'll just stare blankly... go silent for a minute or so, and then blurt out, 'but this is an iphone!' hahaha


I've seen this attitude too. I dislike Apple's closed way of doing things but I have to have a grudging respect for how they've cultivated this aura. Quite a few people seem to think that iPhones are filled with some sort of magic pixie dust.

When it was launched, it was well ahead of the game but not now. Windows Phone 7.5 is apparently very usable and I like Android - although as per my previous post, I'm under no illusions about Google being some morally superior, caring big friend.

I agree. Except Apple, Android, nVidia and AMD cannot love you for anything as they're not human.>> ^Quboid:

I thought this was a sketch, when I realised it was an ad for the phone I have, I cringed. It's a phone. It's just a phone. OK, it's not just a phone, it's also a camera, a web browser and so on and I like it, but it's just an electronic device.
Having loyalty to a manufacturer or an operating system is seriously messed up. If you think your choice of phone says something about who you are, then actually, you're right. It does say something; it says you are someone whose priorities are messed up.
Whether it be Apple or Android, nVidia or AMD, or whatever, it is an abusive, one way relationship with someone who only loves you for your money.

Not everyone who owns an iPhone is a doofus, just those who stand in queues like this to buy one.

Anyone standing in a queue to buy something that is not going to run out (which rules out tickets for some live act or the like), purely so they can have it first... especially for days on end... is a dick.

I suspect alot of the iphones I see in Beijing are sciphones.

Chinese and other emerging market consumers can get quite alot out of a regular phone; that has always amazed me.

>> ^Diogenes:

heh heh, nice vid...
here in china, the iphone is all the rage - but like the vid implies, people here buy it mostly for the name recognition and 'prestige' ... even when the features don't match up to the latest devices by samsung, htc, etc
although most of these phones and/or their components are made right here, the masses seem less tech savvy than westerners
case in point, i'll be sitting around with chinese friends and everybody's got their smartphones at hand... i'll start doing a comparison of the various handsets, and they'll just stare blankly... go silent for a minute or so, and then blurt out, 'but this is an iphone!' hahaha
right now they're all excited about the iphone 4s, and especially siri - i haven't yet had the heart to tell them that siri doesn't support chinese (in fact, most people don't seem to be aware that siri was available over a year ago, but apple snapped up the company, reworked the app, and launched it with the 4s as something new and revolutionary)
anyway, it's all funny - i'm pleased as pie with my htc... with better camera, vid resolution, memory, processor, screen size, and gps -- zero problems and more fun and free apps than i have time for... as well, my provider gave it to me for free (~us$700) after 10+ years of customer loyalty
only possible gripe would be battery life, but between the recharges i get while driving, sitting at the comp, or even with my portable recharger (us$28), it's never really been much of an issue