Last year as the Samsung Galaxy S was being pitched against the Apple iPhone 4, we had highlighted how Samsung (and other smartphone makers) are trying hard to catch up with the iPhone. Their attempts to prove themselves better than the iPhone looked desperate and more than a year later, things haven’t changed a bit. The Samsung Galaxy SII is out, it has sold 10 million, won awards and wowed many of us. It challenged the iPhone 4, got voted as better than the iPhone 4 by many and as Apple rolls out the iPhone 4S, Samsung makes another move that reflects not only its insecurity but the mentality that ‘the iPhone needs to lose for us to win’.
As the iPhone 4S is rolling out across the globe, we see another attempt from Samsung to steal Apple’s thunder, but all it shows is how Samsung needs fake followers to show its strength against the demand seen for the iPhone 4S. Samsung is giving away the Galaxy SII without any contract to 10 people everyday in Sydney. The condition? They have to line-up outside Samsung store to get it! So the first 10 people lining-up outside the store Samsung has rented near the Apple store in Sydney would get the Galaxy S2 for as low as $2.
It’s certain that Samsung wants to show people lining outside its (temporary) store, but hey, the people outside the Apple store are paying upwards of A$ 799 to get an iPhone 4S. No doubt that the Galaxy SII is successful, but the lack of confidence Samsung shows in its product speaks for itself.
Dear Samsung, you need to give away a product for near free cost to get ten people standing outside your stores? Really?
