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Samsung Takes Shot at Apple Following Australia Maps Debacle

Samsung Takes Shot at Apple Following Australia Maps Debacle

Posted December 12, 2012 at 7:56pm by iClarified
Samsung has put up an advertising display on George Street in Sydney following wide spread coverage of an issue in Apple Maps that was getting motorists lost in Australia.

"While it might not be saying it directly, we're pretty darn confident that it's a bit of a dig at Apple's Maps misplacing Mildura and raising the ire of the Victorian police.", says CNET.

Take a look at the photos below...


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Samsung Takes Shot at Apple Following Australia Maps Debacle
Samsung boasts its mapping app... (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET)

Samsung Takes Shot at Apple Following Australia Maps Debacle
...beside a rather lost looking four-wheel drive. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET)
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Jim
Jim - December 13, 2012 at 1:40pm
Seems like everyone missed the point of the Samsung ad. It was about a 3rd party turn by turn navigation system (Navigon) who have been making cross platform mapping worldwide for years. Not about Samsung maps.
Jack n Jill
Jack n Jill - December 13, 2012 at 11:42am
oops..... samsung didn't have Navigation at all .... it was GOOGLE that did all the navigation in samsung.... OOPSS?? what did samsung done?? ooppss
Som
Som - December 13, 2012 at 3:23am
Samsung sucks.. They market products on competitors failures not on the features of the product.. S3 and note are not worth for money... As soon as apple released iphone6, S3 price dropped 10% by Samsung ..
bj kazz
bj kazz - December 14, 2012 at 7:20am
It takes Samsung n Google to show Apple up .. woo hoo to sammy n google
johniee0
johniee0 - December 13, 2012 at 12:46am
you just also name apple with that comment. going to court about shapes.
m_thoroughbred
m_thoroughbred - December 12, 2012 at 9:44pm
Take a look at the sign again it says Navigon lol. So Samsung is showing an app that's also available in iOS instead of showing google maps with direction. Total fail on Samsung's behalf.
Ken
Ken - December 13, 2012 at 12:09am
GG Samsung.
Jim
Jim - December 13, 2012 at 1:37pm
Navigon is a 3rd party turn by turn mapping system that is available on many devices; Android, IOS, Windows Mobile, I used it on and acient Windows PPC, oh and they also nake stand alone GPS systems.... I think Samsung were simply saying get a reliable turn by turn system that works.
Vlz
Vlz - December 12, 2012 at 9:23pm
It is pretty damn smart! Good marketing move samsung!:) work hard apple.
KJ
KJ - December 12, 2012 at 8:21pm
Hy samshit!! Do u still remember your 1b ??
Bobby
Bobby - December 12, 2012 at 8:19pm
Awesome move Samsung!
Maps (APPLE) - Samsung Ad --> NAVIGON.
Maps (APPLE) - Samsung Ad --> NAVIGON. - December 12, 2012 at 9:37pm
The main difference between SAMSUNG AND APPLE regarding the GPS navigation software. Apple has released its own app and we will talk again about it in 6month or so! I bet the Apple one will be the best one out there: reliability, ergonomic, cost (FREE!!!) Anyway...
Ken
Ken - December 12, 2012 at 8:07pm
Must be hard for Samsung to promote the Galaxy without taking cheap shots at Apple.
Applehater
Applehater - December 12, 2012 at 8:46pm
You are right instead of taking cheap shots they should just sue everyone like apple.
m[o_0]m
m[o_0]m - December 12, 2012 at 9:17pm
Well that won't work, would it. Hahaha
Ken
Ken - December 13, 2012 at 12:07am
Apples not suing everyone, nice try though.
applehatershaterhater
applehatershaterhater - December 13, 2012 at 12:50am
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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