Samsung Takes Shot at Apple Following Australia Maps Debacle

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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.

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Samsung Takes Shot at Apple Following Australia Maps Debacle

Samsung boasts its mapping app... (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET)

...beside a rather lost looking four-wheel drive. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET)

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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.

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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

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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 ..

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bj kazz - December 14, 2012 at 7:20am

It takes Samsung n Google to show Apple up .. woo hoo to sammy n google

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johniee0 - December 13, 2012 at 12:46am

you just also name apple with that comment. going to court about shapes.

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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.

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Ken - December 13, 2012 at 12:09am

GG Samsung.

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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.

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Vlz - December 12, 2012 at 9:23pm

It is pretty damn smart! Good marketing move samsung!:) work hard apple.

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KJ - December 12, 2012 at 8:21pm

Hy samshit!! Do u still remember your 1b ??

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Bobby - December 12, 2012 at 8:19pm

Awesome move Samsung!

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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...

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