Abandoning the headphone jack difficult for Samsung to cope with

Samsung was caught red-handed. The Asian manufacturer known for its Galaxy smartphones and in particular its latest Note 10 has in fact started to remove an advertising video from its YouTube channels, extolling the merits of its devices compared to the Apple iPhone.

This advertisement released in 2017 is called “Growing Up” and highlights in particular the absence of a headphone jack on the iPhone (since the iPhone 7 in 2016). Here it is:

Until this year 2019 and the Galaxy S10, Samsung wanted to keep this famous socket, precisely to differentiate itself from Apple and emphasize the fact that the Korean firm listens to the requests of its users.

Except there is a catch, or even, several catches. On the one hand, at the end of 2018, Samsung released aGalaxy A8s heading to the Chinese market, without headphone jack. In the Western market, this went rather unnoticed. But whenthe new flagship model Galaxy Note 10, supposed to integrate all that is best in terms of smartphones, also abandons the headphone jack, it's not the same story.

So to certainly hide from the fact that it has in the past used the headphone jack to criticize Apple, the South Korean firm has started to delete the advertisement in question. This has therefore become unavailable on the Samsung Mobile YouTube channels in several countries, including the United States and France, but also on the main Samsung channel.

It is still visible on the Samsung Denmark and Malaysia YouTube channels, but probably not for long.

We can give Samsung the benefit of the doubt regarding the removal of these commercial videos from its YouTube channels and attribute the latter to other reasons. All the same, the short delay between the removal of the ad mocking the absence of a headphone jack on iPhone and the release of the Galaxy Note 10 without a headphone jack suggests a desire for customs clearance on the part of the manufacturer.

Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.