Samsung: Consumers Know Which Device They're Using

[alcalde]

[citation][nom]Anomalyx[/nomEver since schools started teaching WHAT to think [/citation]

This isn't going to turn into a rant about global warming, atheism and those dinosaur bones Satan put in the ground to fool us, is it?

 

[jamie_1318]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]There is data to confirm that consumers are returning Samsung devices because they thought they were Apple. These are not made up #s which is stated to be 38% and from actual surveys, etc. Average consumers are clueless...heh.[/citation]

Yup. Actual surveys.... Right.
If you are going to claim you have evidence that backs your information up you better quote a source.
I am not about to believe that either 38% of people who return the samsung tablets return because it isn't an iPad without really solid proof. Even once you've established the figure we don't know people bought it because it is a tablet like an ipad or if they thought the device they were buying was an ipad.

 

[jerm1027]

I'm truly amazed that Apple is doing so well when their "experts" thinks an iPhone says "DROID"

 

[ojas]

i think apple's marketing has failed, if ppl cant tell the diff. :lol:

 

[ddemon]

I just want to simplify all of this and say that yes patents need to exist, but I think they have gotten to the point that they are soooo converluted that they are actually anti competitive ....Apple just don't want any healthy competition, they want world domination and nothing else will suffice ...lol

 

[house70]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]There is data to confirm that consumers are returning Samsung devices because they thought they were Apple. These are not made up #s which is stated to be 38% and from actual surveys, etc. Average consumers are clueless...heh.[/citation]
link, or stfu.

 

[teh_chem]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]There is data to confirm that consumers are returning Samsung devices because they thought they were Apple. These are not made up #s which is stated to be 38% and from actual surveys, etc. Average consumers are clueless...heh.[/citation]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]link, or stfu.[/citation]
The link is in this article. It goes to the CNet article which then goes to the Samsung/BestBuy study that CNet wrote up:

[citation][nom]Cnet[/nom]
The study, conducted last year at 30 Best Buy stores in New York, Los Angeles, and Florida to determine why consumers were returning the tablet, found that 25 percent of the returns cited malfunctions such as browser freezes, lack of screen sensitivity, and poor Wi-Fi connectivity. Another 17 percent cited issues such as screen lagging, short battery life, and inability to sync with PCs.

Ten percent returned the tablet because they found Google's Honeycomb operating system difficult to use, while 9 percent were exchanges for iPad 2s. Some 8 percent were frustrated by a lack of support for apps such as Hulu, Netflix, or Skype, while only 6 percent cited insufficient speed and performance for their return. [/citation]

Then in the article they say this:
[citation][nom]Cnet[/nom]By contrast, the key metric that Apple pointed out in court was in the marketing of the Galaxy Tab, noting that the greatest number of customer returns among those who said they had insufficient knowledge of the product were those who thought it was an iPad 2. [/citation]
But there are no real numbers correlating to consumers that "thought" they were buying in ipad who actually bought something else.

No doubt if those people exist, they are the people who think all tablets are just called "ipads."

 

[wiyosaya]

My wife and I recently saw a documentary that consisted entirely of footage of the now departed Steve Jobs from 1995. Some of that footage was previously thought lost.

In the interview, Jobs explicitly says that crApple stole everything it "invented." Perhaps Samsung ought to present this footage as evidence for their case. However, I bet that even though Jobs likely continued those practices when he returned to the crApple helm, the footage would be disallowed since it may be considered "dated."

 

[teh_chem]

[citation][nom]wiyosaya[/nom]My wife and I recently saw a documentary that consisted entirely of footage of the now departed Steve Jobs from 1995. Some of that footage was previously thought lost.In the interview, Jobs explicitly says that crApple stole everything it "invented." Perhaps Samsung ought to present this footage as evidence for their case. However, I bet that even though Jobs likely continued those practices when he returned to the crApple helm, the footage would be disallowed since it may be considered "dated."[/citation]
It's not a widely kept secret that a lot of what Apple worked on between the 80's and 2000 was largely nothing technologically new. Apple just imparted aesthetics that complemented Steve Jobs' obsessions, and then marketed it in a way that made people desire their products.

As much as Apple borrowed from others, so have almost all of the giants today. Giants who stood on the shoulders of other giants before them. Apple suing others for mimicking their hardware and software is hypocritical, and if they believed in anything other than brand protection--such as working for technological innovation and development rather than stifling it--they wouldn't be haphazardly suing everyone that makes a device that looks or uses something that appears to resemble a device or their OS. Pot calling the kettle black, and I'm astounded that it has gone on for so long.

 

[eddieroolz]

Oh Samsung, I hardly think so.

If consumers knew which devices they were buying, then why is there the need to make the first Galaxy packaging almost identical to iPhone? Not to mention the icons and the device design itself.