Samsung mocks Apple lawsuit in SuperBowl teaser ad
Samsung has released a star-studded teaser video for its ad that will run during this Sunday's SuperBowl "El Plato Supremé", a clip that mocks patent and copyright litigation – and, by extension, its long-running adversary, Apple. In the video, funnymen Bob Odenkirk, Seth Rogen, and Paul Rudd are seen discussing ad ideas for …
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Re: Am I the only person..
remembered the clamp down in the run up to the Olympics
Was just about to make the same point, but you beat me to it!
Re: Am I the only person..
Theres a Cracked article on "stupid things you can't believe are copyrighted" and they mention exactly this thing. I doubt they could be sued for defamation. Even if they could do it, doing so would actually bring the issue to the Streissand Effect.
The battle may be Apple vs Samsung today but the war is Apple vs Google. Samsung are just one of many Android makers.
I like it -> decent commercial
Used the proper actors for the subject too - current flavors of the month in Hollywood.
All this iPhone v Samsung... sigh, no one thought Nokia/Motorola/RIM would ever falter either so give them time, nothing is forever. A few thoughts that will get some downvotes, I'm sure. I've never liked Apple or Steve Jobs, the superior attitude oozing off him has always put me in screw-you mode, if you know what I mean. I've always thought the MacOS clones should have been allowed to prosper and Apple might have never went through the years in the desert. Also have a scummy acquaintance(42) who has the latest iPhone to help attract little college girls at the bars but that's neither here nor there. Note quite the few grandma's with iPhones. Don't like the cradle to grave safe island hand-holding non-transferable money-pit either.
Enough rambling.. I've been through Nokia->Nokia->Nokia->Motorola->Motorola->Blackberry Storm2->Blackberry Torch(fail)->HTC Hero(fail)->Motorola ICS Razr-> and now looking to go back to Blackberry just for the secure messaging and the ability to run my own BES.
Fire Away!*
;)
*not sure if bad attitude lately or what but seems everybody's downvotes are multiplying rapidly :)
Re: I like it -> decent commercial
looking to go back to Blackberry just for the secure messaging
You'd better look elsewhere - BB is in NO WAY "secure"!
Re: I like it -> decent commercial
Secure messaging - what's wrong with any of the standard protocols over a high level SSL encryption or better yet SSL over a VPN? BB cannot really claim 'secure' any more.
How, exactly, are they mocking Apple in any way?
They are actually mocking themselves; trying to figure a way to make their product copy somebody elses as close as possible without directly violating copyright/trademark laws or paying for the right to use the name or likeness.
That immoral business practice cost them $1b last time.....
Fun fact
The "El Plato Supreme" ad might be even biting on something that is true: NFL does troll over its rights to SuperBowl. If say, Domino's offers a special SuperBowl discount package ... they can't say it's the "Super Bowl package" but they have to say something like "The Big Game Package".
Darn You El Reg
Now I might actually have to watch that game. Have no TV and several folks who know that have urged me to watch it on their over-sized TVs. Now maybe I'll be willing to, to see Apple get poked.
Re: Darn You El Reg
Or just watch the YouTube clip its not really worth it though...
The real question is...
...do they run this ad in Spanish-speaking markets?
Re: The real question is...
No point, we like real football here, not the kind that gets played with the hands.
Well, actually I don't, but most people do.
Nonsense
Ask Galaxy owners if they would definitely buy a Samsung device next time - probably 10-20% would
Errr.... No. Recent market research showed that the numbers were exactly the obverse of your claim. The conversion rate of ex-Apple users to Android products is scaring Apple. There's nothing they can do to stop the loss of userbase.
When Galaxy S3 users were asked if they would exchange their phones for a free iPhone 5, NONE of them would.
Practically - the iPhone is incapable of 4G operation, has abysmally poor radio performance (calls are frequently dropped, cell sites are frequently unreachable, wireless network connection is unreliable), is really easy to break (failing switches, cracking screens), have poor battery life (most users have to recharge twice each day), and the software is simply flaky and poorly designed.
The Android eco-system has developed very quickly. Android 4 is faster, more stable and has a wider range of quality software than iOS, and most of it is free! Apple haven't got a product that can compete...
Re: Nonsense
Sounds like Samsung PR. Yet Apple have retaken the number 1 spot in the US - someone somewhere is fibbin'
Of course if you ask someone who just wasted £400 on a Samsung would you change to iPhone they would say no - it's like admitting you were wrong.
Re: Nonsense
Does sound like steaming BS to me. One survey says 84% of Apple users would buy Apple again - so it probably stands to reason the 16% that would not have to buy something else - so yes some of those 16% would buy Android. However, since the figure quoted for Android users was 60% equally there must be some that are switching to iPhone.
Two sides to every story.
Apple sales are well up, number 1 in the US and they make ongoing revenue - can't imagine Apple are too scared. If I were Samsung I would be more scared of Google (owning Motorola) or any one of the equally good other Android makers with an eye to their market.
Re: Nonsense
Sounds like Samsung PR
Android, not Samsung.
Of course if you ask someone who just wasted £400 on a Samsung would you change to iPhone they would say no - it's like admitting you were wrong.
Yet you also claimed hordes of people were returning their Android devices - which is exactly like admitting you were wrong. Getting a freebie swap to the more expensive device is a certain win if you really dont like the droid.
Re: Nonsense
Does sound like steaming BS to me.
Any reason why this didnt go into the first post? They are only a couple of minutes apart and a lot of that will have been typing time, so its not as if you did hours of research here.
One survey says 84% of Apple users would buy Apple again
One old survey remember.
Samsung have to try and push their BRAND as ultimately that's all they have that is unique. Anyone else could come up with an equally good, better and / or cheaper Android phone. Google played this well - get all the manufacturers to push the products out and buy Motorola as a threat to keep them in line.
Nokia have kept out as they probably realise it's ultimately no / low margin with no many people competing and so little to differentiate - WinPho is a big bet for them though against iOS and Android.
re AC @ 1555 GMT
Samsung have to try and push their BRAND as ultimately that's all they have that is unique.
Well , ultimately that is what most companies have that is unique. Its why branding (and brand loyalty) is important to companies.
Anyone else could come up with an equally good, better and / or cheaper Android phone.
ACs (you?) have said this a few times. Yes it is true and it is what is good about the market and forces Samsung to keep trying hard. Go back an re-read the previous replies if you have forgotten what people said last time.
Anyone else could come up with an equally good or better handset but so far they havent. There are cheaper ones but at the moment Samsung seems to have hit the sweet spot of setting the price at a point at which people are willing to pay for the goodies.
When Apple Met Samsung
Soon to be a major motion picture.
"I'll have what she's having."
"Waiter, is that a mistake? A billion dollars for fruit cake?"
Re: When Apple Met Samsung
Is this the one where Apple left Samsung after Samsung did the dirty on them. Initially Samsung was ok - sold devices to a lot of people but eventually those people went elsewhere and Samsung were left having lost them and Apple.
Re: When Apple Met Samsung
"Apple left Samsung after Samsung did the dirty on them."
Yeah, but that ending's too sad. In the Q&A after the screenings, the IT Crowd wanted a happy ending. What about you?
What about a merger between Apple and Samsung? Appsung! (Sample?)
Corporate offices in Havana. Sweetheart deal from the Castro Freres. No taxes. Ever.
The other device makers go out of business.
Lots of high fives and cat stroking.
Samsung as juvenile and parasitic as ever
It's amusing to watch Samsung pull off their own mask and show the world their juvenile and parasitic nature. This is a self-destructive company and we get to watch the self-induced carnage. I'd hide my eyes if it wasn't simple justice.
I'm fed up of Samsung actually think Apple have a case don't think I'll buy a Samsung fridge, telly or microwave next time. Not saying I would buy Apple only but there is nothing special about Samsung that Sony or anyone else could not do next.
I'm fed up of Samsung actually think Apple have a case don't think I'll buy a Samsung fridge, telly or microwave next time. Not saying I would buy Apple only but there is nothing special about Samsung that Sony or anyone else could not do next.
It would worry Samsung a bit more if you werent one person posting the same refuse to buy message a dozen times.
The latest Sony devices look, feel and work great. The coming tablet looks awesome!
So, I managed to say something +1 about an android device and +1 about Sony.
This should send the Fandoid Sony haters into an intellectual melt down.
Androids
The latest Sony devices look, feel and work great. The coming tablet looks awesome!
Excellent - see the open market works for everyone's benefits. If Sony do manage to pull off a superb device at an equivalent price point, then well done for them and Samsung's business will suffer.
This is the "good" thing about free market capitalism. Companies try to encourage brand loyalty because that is what allows them to sell rubbish to customers who still keep ranting about it being the greatest thing ever (until the next one comes out and fixes all the previous faults because until the new one does it they arent faults).
Realistically, if Apple could produce a decent enough tablet which did the things I want a tablet to do, at a reasonable price, I would buy it. So far, they haven't and my old iPads are gathering dust now.
Samsung found a way to have an ongoing revenue stream at last - selling replacement styli.
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