Designed by Apple in California, ripped off wholesale by Samsung in South Korea

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So if Samsung created Apple’s awesome ‘Intention’ video (part of the new ‘Designed by Apple’ ad campaign), the results would no doubt look something like this…

Here is the ’Samesong’ clip, someone’s funny take on the ‘Designed by Apple’ thing.

Rings true to me (via The Loop).

For reference: Apple’s nice ‘Intention’ video that kicked off the WWDC 2013 keynote.

In addition to the above video, Apple is also airing a nice mission-statement commercial that can be seen virtually everywhere, with print ads and more coming.

I kinda hoped Samsung would never copy Apple’s next-gen Mac Pro because its friends in South Korea wrote it would exit the desktop biz altogether, but it turned out to be false.

“Can’t innovate anymore, my ass!”

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iPad vs. Paper

As this commercial amusingly asserts, there isn’t an app for everything after all. Apple’s tablet can replace paper most of the time and assist us in almost every way but one, revealed at the very end. Meet us in comments…

Was that funny or what?

This actually reminds me of a story how Steve Jobs dismissed one of the very early iPad prototypes as only being good for surfing on the loo.

 

 

 

Speaking to The New York Times, one of the engineers working on the project at the time revealed how one of the very first tablet prototypes Apple began developing in the mid-2000s actually had a seven-inch screen.

However, Apple’s late co-founder hated it for being too small and having poor battery life, wondering aloud what it was good for “besides surfing the web in the bathroom,” this person said.

BTW, even though the video is titled ‘iPad vs. Paper’, I’m not certain that’s Apple’s device.

We don’t get to see the Apple logo so it might be mistaken for some no-name generic device.

 

 

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