Attack of Samsung gadget spam

[Skuld]

Samsung's 'Marketing 101': http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/24/5023 ... tc-reviews

After being caught paying for false praise and negative comments about competitors, Samsung has been fined just over $340,000. The issue first arose internationally in April, when Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was opening an investigation into the allegations. That investigation found the allegations were true: the FTC says Samsung used a "large number of hired writers and designated employees" to post in Taiwanese forums. The commission does add that the company did this through a third-party marketing company, just as Samsung originally claimed. Two local marketing firms were fined a combined total of over $100,000 for their part in the marketing ploy.

When news first broke of Samsung's behavior, HTC was presented as the victim of a campaign of defamation from the Korean company's army of commenters, but the FTC's report into the matter doesn't mention the Taiwanese company by name. Instead, it only notes that the company paid people to "highlight the shortcomings of competing products." The commission did dig up a lot more nefarious activity related to Samsung's commenters, though. The list of infractions includes the "disinfection of negative news about Samsung products," "palindromic Samsung product marketing," and the positive evaluation of Samsung products.

Both individually and collectively, these types of covert marketing are known in the industry as "astroturfing." While Samsung is by no means the first company to engage in astroturfing, it's been caught in the act twice this year alone. In relation to a later case, Samsung told the Verge that it remains "committed to engaging in transparent and honest communications with consumers."

One user said it best in the comments: "If you pay to talk sh*t about another company, it obviously means you’re insecure about your own products".

[pioneer]

Whale in work tell ah man samsung easier to navigate and use than iphone

[noshownogo]

This makes sense, you've seen the size of flippers on a whale? Larger screen needed

[Sky]

I wonder if I start a thread to hate on Apple, how long before it's deleted.

[pete]

What's to hate? Their products work well.

[Sky]

What's to hate? Their products work well.

hate meaning having a thread highlighting all the shortcomings of their products, complaints, news articles which show them in a negative light etc. Because that's what's going on here now.
Doesn't matter though, the sales speak for Samsung I guess.

[pete]

You really want to waste time doing that?

I've given up the fight

[pioneer]

Make it nah Sky nun wrong wid dat

[cinco]

What's to hate? Their products work well.

hate meaning having a thread highlighting all the shortcomings of their products, complaints, news articles which show them in a negative light etc. Because that's what's going on here now.
Doesn't matter though, the sales speak for Samsung I guess.

no need
i point out the shortcomings in the iphone thread
its just met with
"they will update and fix that"

[Sky]

Make it nah Sky nun wrong wid dat

You really want to waste time doing that?

I've given up the fight

Pete answered. Would be a waste.

[pioneer]

Acceptin defeat?

[pete]

Or maybe just doing what apple users do.. enjoy the device we have.

[cinco]

Or maybe just doing what apple users do.. enjoy the device we have.

and b1ch about other devices?

[Sky]

I don't see defeat it choosing the better phone for me.
Next year might be an apple, who knows. I doubt it though, with the rate they're going without 'ol Steve.

[~Vēġó~]

me eh cater... I real love my phone....though I am not supposed to be attached to material things

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

What's to hate? Their products work well.

hate meaning having a thread highlighting all the shortcomings of their products, complaints, news articles which show them in a negative light etc. Because that's what's going on here now.
Doesn't matter though, the sales speak for Samsung I guess.

no need
i point out the shortcomings in the iphone thread
its just met with
"they will update and fix that"

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/07/app ... ad-issues/

Thursday November 7, 2013 12:08 pm PST by Juli Clover

Apple today released a new EFI Update for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which is designed to fix issues that caused the built-in keyboard and trackpad to freeze up and stop functioning. Apple recommends that all late 2013 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro owners install the update.

Users first began noticing issues that caused the keyboard and the trackpad of the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro to freeze up shortly after the computer was released on October 22.

Multiple threads on Apple's Support Forums highlighted the issues and prompted Apple to notify users last week that it was working on a fix. While it was unclear whether the keyboard and trackpad unresponsiveness was due to a hardware or a software issue, it appears to be software-based and repairable with the EFI update.

The EFI update should be available through the Software Update tool in the Mac App Store for all users with an affected MacBook.

I guess they were right about them just updating and fixing in general.

[Sky]

Nothing's wrong with that actually.
Every single company providing hardware/software provides updates.

[pioneer]

Yeah just look at how much hardware samsung has to release

[Sky]

^^

Or maybe just doing what apple users do.. enjoy the device we have.

and b1ch about other devices?

[Strauss]

Nothing's wrong with that actually.
Every single company providing hardware/software provides updates.

Nope.

[ismithx]

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/13/sams ... _truncated

a low end phone for $270. this garbage is exactly the reason why i dumped samsung. my current phone much better and its cheaper too

[pioneer]

lololololol oh lawd

[pioneer]

[K74T]

[pioneer]

Is how de man posting it on every single stat bmobile post

#sufferer

#fakeclaims

[S_2NR]

why is that funny?
s4 active is Water resistant up to 1 meter and 30 minutes

for the unaware:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9295_galaxy_s4_active-5446.php

[pioneer]

Clearly Chetwayo didn't get that memo

[pioneer]

https://www.facebook.com/bmobile

jump een an troll dat knut

[ismithx]

he have a point tho...

[pioneer]

iPhone 5S beats Galaxy S4 as top smartphone worldwide

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57615 ... worldwide/