Just wonderful.
(Credit: Samsung Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
The lovely thing about advertising is that most of it is forgettable.
Which makes the task of remembering the very good and the very bad at the end of the year much, much easier.
The best, most certainly, is barely even a contest. As the spittle flew in court between Apple and Samsung, the latter had some very clever ad people produce ads that, at last, began not only to improve Samsung's own image, but also to dent Apple's.
Indeed, from the Super Bowl onward, Samsung relentlessly pressed Apple on its cultism, its allegedly sheep-like following and its, well, lack of real technical innovation.
This culminated in an ad launched during the debut of the iPhone 5 that suggested Apple products were for, well, pained hipsters and old folks.
However, Samsung didn't merely spend all its time knocking Apple. It created a joyous ad for its solid-state drives using Laina, the overly attached girlfriend.
It even followed it with a controversial, if amusing to some, ... [Read more]
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