-
-
Recent Reviews
Samsung’s At It Again. Releases New Series of Poke Fun at Apple Ads
Posted:
January 25, 2012
By: ccsoya
4 comments
Sometime in November last year, Samsung made headlines by doing something that can be likened to sitting naked in a Kancil with a hornet’s nest next to you and poking said nest vigorously with a big fat stick. Samsung made fun of Apple, and by extension, Samsung made fun of Apple users.
Now, taking that sitting naked in a Kancil with a hornet’s nest analogy, you’d think Samsung would’ve been stung to death by millions disgruntled Apple loyalist by the time the first 30-second ad finished playing. Oddly enough, that didn’t happen. While Apple fans were up in arms, outraged at what Samsung had done, the rest of the world smiled.
And the rest of the world had a good reason to smile. Samsung’s ballsy tongue-in-cheek ad campaign was funny, witty and entertaining. More importantly, it was effective.
Not meddling much with a successful formula, Samsung’s at it again with a new series of commercials that continues poking fun at Apple and Apple fans, specifically iPhone users.
In all honesty, we like what Samsung has produced. The ads are genuinely funny. They deliver a crystal clear message and they compel you to share them on your social media stream. By these definitions, these Samsung ads are the perfect textbook examples of TV commercials. And so we’ve compiled the whole series so far for you in this post so that you can enjoy them as well.
Now, we’re expecting a lot of discourse about these ads particularly from the Apple purists. They’ve called what Samsung have done as below the belt or undignified or downright nasty even, and that’s ok, we like discourses, the exchanging of opinions.
We’d like to think that at SoyaCincau.com we have a level head when it comes to tech. Android fans have called us Apple fanboys and we’ve been called vice-versa by Apple fans. We’ve been called everything in between by BlackBerry and Nokia users as well. Ironically, being called fanboys of all sorts can only mean that we’re actually playing favourite to none and we will continue to be that way.
The point we’re trying to make here is that before any Apple fans come and say “oh what Samsung did is classless” we’d like to you to view a video we got from YouTube after the jump. It’s a compilation of the “Get a Mac” or better known as “Mac vs PC” ad campaign that aired in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK from 2006 to 2009. So tit for tat then. In any case, we thought those were funny too.
Enjoy.
“Get a Mac” Compilation
4 Comments for Samsung’s At It Again. Releases New Series of Poke Fun at Apple Ads
aaa
country boy…stick with your fruit phone…
kane
don ,are u one of their shareholder?get a life…
John
There is a fine line that Apple's ad agency toed but Samsung's has crossed.
In the Get a Mac ads, Justin Long and John Hodgman were playing Macs and PCs as a platform. They weren't making fun of customers.
Samsung is making fun of Apple users directly.
They can say whatever they want, but apple indeed making more money from their iPhones and the iPhone outsold the s2 times. 4s has no change of its design so I'm looking forward for the next galaxy s series design. Maybe this time xperia will be the one get copied again. I'm just can't stand anymore when testing few models of Samsung phones and cant find any reason and excuse of how their phones external design resemble so much with the iPhone especially the ace plus. They should learn from Japanese company like Sony. Their designs are really different lAmd most importantly unique like arc, ion. I criticise this because I want this samseng electronics turn to Samsung electronics.