1. Why quarrel when you can simply increase the price?
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You’ve undoubtedly noticed that a lot of the items in today’s post centre on exchanges between Samsung and Apple and there’s a good reason for that. You see, both corporations have spent years in court arguing over a number of patents costing both of them millions, if not billions in court costs, legal bills and settlements.
In 2012, Samsung decided they’d had enough of Apple’s nonsense and wrote them a letter gently saying that they were boosting the price of the mobile CPU they required for all of their iPhones, because oh yeah, Samsung just so happens to produce a lot of the components Apple utilises in their devices. Apple was still attempting to sue them.
When Apple got the letter it immediately dawned on them that they had no option but to pay the additional price since Samsung was the only business in the world selling them. Samsung then changed their decision, likely merely to demonstrate Apple that they could screw them over at any stage. Apple in turn launched yet another slew of cases.
2. Samsung created a video making fun of the iPhone 6, before it came
One of the primary selling points of the iPhone 6, other than that it can bend to match the curvature of your ass is that it has a larger screen than the iPhone 5. Prior to the phone’s debut, in an attempt to blow cannon holes in Apple’s sails, Samsung produced a video showing one Apple user gloating to a guy who we think is his on-off boyfriend that the iPhone is going to receive a larger screen. To which his silky spoken man-friend says “that hasn’t happened yet?” while simultaneously exhibiting how much larger his own phone his is while grasping it in his superior, man-sized hands.
The smooth talking Samsung owner then replies “you must be happy” as the iPhone owner looks at his friend’s phone with what can only be described as “the phone version of penis envy”.
Immediately after this discussion finishes, text saying “the next big thing is here” appears in the middle of the screen as the iPhone owner face’s contorts into a wonderful combination of uncertainty and rage at the world.
3. Nokia has finer hair than you hair-phones
Hey, remember when we told you about how Nokia utilised twitter to throw an all-mighty sequence of never-ending mouth slaps to Apple when they unveiled the iPhone 5c like 3 entries ago? Well they did it again when Apple launched their new iOS 8 operating system and things got a bit, odd.
Along with making fun of all of the apparently “new” features iOS 8 touted that you could find on any bog-standard Nokia, the business put out a tweet making light of an Apple spokesperson’s hair. We’d think that this was a stupid criticism if it wasn’t for the reality that Joe Belfiore truly does have significantly better hair than any of Apple’s reps.
We’d argue there’s a time and a place to attract attention to the fact one of the top people at your firm has beautiful hair, but we all know that, that time is always.
4. Nokia demonstrates Samsung how customer service could be done
As much as we liked making fun of Apple during the Bendgate entry, we have to realise that Apple, at the very least, didn’t mess up as severely as Samsung did when a fan claimed that his brand new Galaxy S4 caught on fire!
The customer, identified as Richard Wygand, released a video displaying the issue so that other users would be informed that their phone may you know, burn their friggin home down and then mailed his phone (which was under warranty) to Samsung requesting for a replacement. Samsung agreed on the condition that Wygand pulled down his video, in reaction, Wygand published a new video showing people the letter Samsung wrote him, since he’s a legend and potentially a hero.
As you can guess, people weren’t exactly thrilled that Samsung were attempting to hide information about their phones doing a Jennifer Laurence and catching fire and the firm got a barrage of objections and Wygands video deservedly went viral. Nokia, noticing a chance for some free PR, sent Wygand a tweet giving him a new phone so that he could experience how “customer service should really work”.
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