New Galaxy S4 ad trashes Apple: iPhone is so old



Having gotten over its tame international launch of the S4, Samsung's American arm resumes its denigration of Apple, suggesting only old folks own an iPhone.


Oh, Dad. You're so dumb.
(Credit: Samsung/Vimeo Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
You thought it might be all over?
You thought that Samsung had tired of suggesting Apple was a fading brand for geriatrics?
You may also have thought that the world runs on Cabernet and common sense.
Yes, the Galaxy S4 was launched on a rocket of the beige and the tasteless. But those were just the corporate folks doing their thing.
Now, the American arm of Samsung has returned to its own style. This involves squishing Apple till it's cider.
Here we are at a high school graduation pool party presented by the latest Samsung ad.
The cooler people all have the new Galaxy S4. The slightly less cool people all have iPhones.
The slightly less cool people might loosely be described as parents. (I say "loosely," because parenting just isn't what it used to be, is it?)

As the party rolls on and the soft drinks flow, the iPhone-owning parents begin to realize just how retrograde they are.

These snotty kids can answer their phones by merely waving at them.
They can kiss their phones together to transmit data to each other, too. It's as if the tactile love that was so prevalent in the '60s has now been transposed to the gadgets of the '10s.
"So some smartphones are smarter than other smartphones?" muses one graybeard, who looks like he's been addled by too much Cointreau and lawyering.
Meanwhile, the Beverly Hills 902013s continue to humiliate the olds with their technical wizardry.
Yes, the Galaxy S4 even works as your TV remote, you dye-haired daddy doddering toward dotage.
This tweaking of the Apple cheek has been going on for a while now, and it's becoming enjoyably brutal.
The positioning of Apple as a faded dame might remind some of Mac vs. PC, when the pitiful blobbery of Microsoft was exposed by Apple for all to see and laugh at.

Chrome caching to smooth out rough patches in network



"Offline cache mode" lets Google's browser load a saved version of a previously visited Web page. The cached version might be out of date, though.

by Stephen Shankland   
Google is working on software that will improve Chrome (Windows, Mac) during moments when people lose their network connection by letting the browser load its own stored copy of previously visited Web pages.

Google programmer Randy Smith said yesterday he's added support for "offline cache mode" to Chrome. It's only on the developer version of the browser so far, and it's disabled by default, but the flag to enable it says the feature will let Chrome load Web pages from the browser's local cache if the online version isn't available. That could help when reloading pages or restarting the browser with no network.


If you're interested in the feature and have the Chrome Canary or developer versions -- neither as well tested as Chrome beta or stable, of course -- here are CNET's instructions on how to enable offline cache mode.
Offline usability been a sore spot with browsers for years, and it becomes more prominent as Google tries to persuade people that its browser-based Chrome OS is ready for mainstream use. The Internet is spreading ever farther, but it's by no means everywhere, even when technical issues don't bring it down temporarily.


Smith cautioned that with the feature, people will see out-of-date "stale" information if an old version of a Web page is cached on the computer, and they won't get a warning about it.
And he's looking for feedback about where the idea is a problem.
"I'm most interested in Web sites for which this produces a bad user experience (i.e. ones for which you wish you had gotten the error page instead of the cache data)," Smith said. "I expect for most Web sites some data will be better than no data, but I'd like to know about the corner cases for which that isn't true."
Judging from the discussion about the patch, it seems likely that Google wants to add the feature to Chrome for iOS, too.
Google spokeswoman Lily Lin declined to comment on the work. "As you know, we're always experimenting with new features in Chrome but have nothing to announce at this time," she said.

 
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