When it comes to the new Apple iPhone, everyone likes to take potshots. Samsung has been doing it for years, even newer companies like Xiaomi and LeEco will try and weave in some comparison to the iPhone in their launch presentation. This year Lenovo’s Motorola has joined in with a full fledged sarcastic ad to advertise with the tagline #SkiptheSevens and instead pitches the Moto Z as the ideal device. Motorola had a full-fledged advertisement in the The New York Times today as well.
“When the first generation iPhone came out, it changed everything. It was the rebel, the challenger. And it knocked us off our perch. But that was nine years ago,” said the advertisement. Motorola’s ad further puts down the smartphone manufacturers today; calling them out for implementing moderate improvements in display sizes and camera qualities without bringing in any real changes. The company even says they played a similar game in the past, but is going with ‘something new, something different’ this time around.
The advertisement goes with the header ‘Skip the sevens’, taking a dig not only at Apple’s new iPhone 7 but also at Samsung for its Galaxy Note 7. Given Samsung’s global recall for Galaxy Note 7 devices thanks to the exploding battery, we’ve are unlikely to see any ads from them mocking the new iPhone. But it seems Motorola has no qualms about kicking people when they’re down.
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