Samsung is apparently looking to brush its ads calling out
Apple for removing the headphone jack from the
iPhone under the rug now that it's doing the exact same thing.The company on Wednesday revealed the Galaxy Note 10, which, like Apple's recent iPhones, has no 3.5 mm headphone jack. This announcement immediately called to mind Samsung's ads making fun of the iPhone for this reason. There was, for instance, a November 2017 commercial in which an iPhone user switches to a Galaxy phone due to a variety of annoyances, including the need to use an adapter to plug in his headphones. But the subject of that ad now won't find a headphone jack on the Galaxy Note 10, either, and Business Insider observed on Thursday that this commercial has been removed from Samsung's
YouTube channel. A follow-up ad from May 2018 that called out the iPhone again is also nowhere to be found. Samsung has yet to comment on the removal of these ads, although one version of the 2017 one uploaded on the company's Malaysian YouTube account remains online. Inevitably, that video is now being flooded with comments taking note of Wednesday's announcement, with one user writing, "Irony much?"