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Samsung pokes fun at Apple’s Polishing Cloth by offering one of its own for free

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Apple had introduced a $25 Polishing Cloth last month alongside the iPhone 13 series – a cloth that barely offered anything over regular microfibre cloths you can grab for a fraction of the price.
It was thus met with quite the mockery despite selling quite well.

Samsung has now joined in the fun and is offering a cleaning cloth of their own for absolutely free, with an aim of showing how it’s done to Apple.
German site Galaxy Club reports that Samsung has been emailing Samsung Members app users to inform them about the said cloth.

The cloth measures larger than Apple’s at 20 x 20cm and can be availed through the Members app. Owners of any Samsung device can grab it and it will be delivered to your address free of cost.

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Yeah, Like they dunked on Apple for removing the 3.5mm headphone socket then did exactly the same thing not long after.

Who exactly takes Samsung seriously anymore?
 

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Yeah, Like they dunked on Apple for removing the 3.5mm headphone socket then did exactly the same thing not long after.

Who exactly takes Samsung seriously anymore?

Add to the list charger :D.

But then again, samsung provides innerphones, wireless charging for longer period.
 
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In the past I got a free Gear VR set.

As far as I know @ the Apple side there is nothing free....Never...
And yet people keep buying it all, it does not matter what it cost....
 

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Also $25 for a polishing cloth?

I can get a stack of 10 40x40cm microfiber towels for $11 and cut them to size and still have more than plenty to clean other things.
 
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just had to slip that in, didnt ya @Tigger
 
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In the past I got a free Gear VR set.

As far as I know @ the Apple side there is nothing free....Never...
And yet people keep buying it all, it does not matter what it cost....
their devices are idiot proof and easy for idiots to use. thats why most people buy them. also, in poorer countries its gets you clout.
 
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just had to slip that in, didnt ya @Tigger
I see what you did there.... :D

Apple right now is the butt of that and other jokes too.

$25 for a cheap, stinkin cloth that probrably didn't cost over a dime (If that much) or even a dollar to make.
I guess it's the shipping cost for the cloth that makes it so expensive, right?
 
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I see what you did there.... :D

Apple right now is the butt of that and other jokes too.
All the way to the banks
 
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As much as I grew to like Apple in the 2000s and basically up until the last few years...this stuff is such a turn off. I particularly liked their Mac Pros because they were such a popular and well configured system for doing audio....practically every studio I've been in was using a Mac Pro model. It's bad enough their laptops and desktops prices get more insane each generation. But the accessories are out of fucking control! $1000 for fucking monitor stands, $700 casters, $25 microfiber cloths.....(inspired by Tiggers post lol) next up $500 butt plugs shaped like an Apple because at least that way you can mean it when you say Apple is sticking it up your rear. The apple's stem will be extra long as a safety measure for retrieval in case it ya know....gets sucked in too far :laugh:


*in fairness I just had to look up this microfiber cloth. it is selling for $19 on Apple's store. So idk if they lowered it a bit due to the backlash or if the $25 was an rounded up exaggeration or what. Regardless both prices are still too much and the arguments/complaints hold. I also see it is selling so well its sold out until January they expect?! Either there are LOT of morons out there or Apple just didn't expect that many morons to buy it and didn't make very many to begin with.
 

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To be fair, iphones just work, that is the plus point. too many different Androids, too many different versions of the Android OS, slow updates too. Myself, i have used and don't mind both. I wish they'd bloody stop removing the 3.5mm jack though, on both.
 
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To be fair, iphones just work, that is the plus point.
I use iPhones only as does the wife. We never buy any “extra “ junk which usually is for the clueless.
 
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I can get a stack of 10 40x40cm microfiber towels for $11 and cut them to size and still have more than plenty to clean other things.

Yea but it wouldn't have the apple logo on it so what's the purpose of that? How will people know I have lot's disposable income if they don't see the apple logo? Ho will people know that I am better than they are without seeing the apple logo on my tech? What kind of world would we live in?
 
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As owner of rather expensive TV from Samsung.

Dont mind their marketing and other business.

STAY AWAY AND NEVER EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.

They absolutely incompetent company, that straight up lies about what their HW can do and when they break it with FW upgrades, they are unable to fix it. Provided it wasnt broken by design, which most likely it was.

IMHO price for being too big. It seems that moment company becomes too large for its own good, they start to just not being able to do anything properly.
 
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Yeah, Like they dunked on Apple for removing the 3.5mm headphone socket then did exactly the same thing not long after.

Who exactly takes Samsung seriously anymore?
This.

Next quarter, Samsung Galaxy Fabric, $24.99.
 
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To be fair, iphones just work,
I mean android does JUST work too
sure its got a lot of settings under the hood but you dont need to touch any of that to get it working
 
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I mean android does JUST work too
sure its got a lot of settings under the hood but you dont need to touch any of that to get it working
yes, turn it on, it works, but no denying the menus are more complex on Android.
 
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yes, turn it on, it works, but no denying the menus are more complex on Android.
How??
Ive used an andorid for ages so im a tiny bit biased
but iphone is Far form eaisier to use i get stuck trying to use any iphone ever
 
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How??
Ive used an andorid for ages so im a tiny bit biased
but iphone is Far form eaisier to use i get stuck trying to use any iphone ever

I think you are biased. I have used both, rooted and jailbroke both, flashed roms on many androids, so have good knowledge of both, and i still think android menu setups are more complicated, think why more women use iphones, and not because of the looks. Imo it's because they are easier to use.
 
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hink why more women use iphones, a
I tend to not use Sterotypes to work out what phone is more complicated
I think if you give someone an android and tell them how to use it they will be fine
Just like an iphone
 

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Let's just say that a stupid polishing cloth isn't going to convince me to buy either Apple or Samsung. I purchase products for other reasons.
 
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