If I were going to go Android, which I wouldn't, I'd try the HTC One. At least the materials are first rate.
It feels great. As good as you'd expect. I wouldn't say it has a fit and finish as good as the iPhone 5 which in comparison is like jewelry, but it's still brilliant.
Obviously this explains the additional $400 Million Samsung spend in advertising - They used all the money to buy off sponsors, who are not loyal customers! At end of they day they all prefer Apple iPhone!
Send from MacBook running Windows 8 using Samsung Display!
Well, as a long-time iPhone owner, looking at a friend's Samsung 4 last week (which he retrieved effortlessly from his pocket) reviewing some photographs, I found myself feeling quite envious of the screen size and quality of the pictures was jaw-dropping.
Just sayin'!!
until you see the S4 back plastic casing which is nasty
But you are not that naive. There is a whole sector within the marketing / advertising industry dedicated to social media . . .
Yeah, I am that naive, since I don"t do Twitter or Facebook.
Of course you're right, a social network immediately gets parasitized.. But I was thinking in ideal terms, where it should not be parasitized. Other kinds of advertising are just paid-for ad space, not parasitism.
So I guess I would say that Twitter astroturfing is a very low-class form of advertising, if not an unethical form, when it involves fakery like in this case. I hope Apple would never stoop to this level, and doubt they would.
I think what's going on is Samsung is doing a lot of sponsoring of various events, sports, music, etc. and when they do that, they pay these celebrities to support Samsung products, but in reality, many of them use an Apple product. It's hilarious, but some people fall for it.
It's the same in the UK. The Ideal World shopping channel sells thousands of cheap Android tablets but all the presenters say they can't believe what good value their these tablets are compared with their own tablets which they paid hundreds of pounds for and do not take sd cards. It does not take a genius to work out what tablets they are referring to.
A Spanish news site also noted that this kind of unattributed astroturfing is illegal in Spain. All advertising must be clearly labeled as such. So Samsung is not only unethical, but criminal as well.
On the one hand, the whole fiasco in the OP is hilarious and Samsung deserves the mockery.
On the other hand, at least one reason we don't see the reverse is that Samsung products don't come with a dorky "sent from my (whatever)" message*. Personally I prefer not to advertise for the companies I favor, and the first thing I did on my iPad was remove the automatic signature.
* Or at least my Galaxy Nexus did not, but "pure" Samsung products may be different.
Those "sent from my [phone]" thing is done by the apps themselves not the operating system (excluding the email thing as mentioned by someone else). Tapatalk, for example, does it on all OSes. I see plenty of "Sent from my HTC One", etc. when people are using Tapatalk don't turn that off.
When even celebrities you're paying up the ass to promote and use your product don't even bother doing so, maybe you have a not so great product. What's funny and telling is that this has happened many times with many products in the past- and it's ALWAYS tweeted using an iOS device, whether it's tweeting how amazing BBM10 is using an iPhone, or how incredible the Galaxy Tab is using an iPad.
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It feels great. As good as you'd expect. I wouldn't say it has a fit and finish as good as the iPhone 5 which in comparison is like jewelry, but it's still brilliant.
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Originally Posted by xgman
and this is newsworthy because . . . . ???
Because it's funny? I know it made me laugh.
Obviously this explains the additional $400 Million Samsung spend in advertising - They used all the money to buy off sponsors, who are not loyal customers! At end of they day they all prefer Apple iPhone!
Send from MacBook running Windows 8 using Samsung Display!
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Originally Posted by pembroke
Well, as a long-time iPhone owner, looking at a friend's Samsung 4 last week (which he retrieved effortlessly from his pocket) reviewing some photographs, I found myself feeling quite envious of the screen size and quality of the pictures was jaw-dropping.
Just sayin'!!
until you see the S4 back plastic casing which is nasty
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Originally Posted by Rot'nApple
Love this faux love affair PAID endorsers by Samsung have of Samsung's products. I'm not bilingual, but how do you laugh in Spanish???
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jeje
This is just another case that proves that if you need a phone to get things done with out a head ache, its iPhone!
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No I believe she said she loved her Microsoft Surface.
I believe you are correct.
Yeah, I am that naive, since I don"t do Twitter or Facebook.
Of course you're right, a social network immediately gets parasitized.. But I was thinking in ideal terms, where it should not be parasitized. Other kinds of advertising are just paid-for ad space, not parasitism.
So I guess I would say that Twitter astroturfing is a very low-class form of advertising, if not an unethical form, when it involves fakery like in this case. I hope Apple would never stoop to this level, and doubt they would.
A Spanish news site also noted that this kind of unattributed astroturfing is illegal in Spain. All advertising must be clearly labeled as such. So Samsung is not only unethical, but criminal as well.
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Originally Posted by Arlor
On the one hand, the whole fiasco in the OP is hilarious and Samsung deserves the mockery.
On the other hand, at least one reason we don't see the reverse is that Samsung products don't come with a dorky "sent from my (whatever)" message*. Personally I prefer not to advertise for the companies I favor, and the first thing I did on my iPad was remove the automatic signature.
* Or at least my Galaxy Nexus did not, but "pure" Samsung products may be different.
Those "sent from my [phone]" thing is done by the apps themselves not the operating system (excluding the email thing as mentioned by someone else). Tapatalk, for example, does it on all OSes. I see plenty of "Sent from my HTC One", etc. when people are using Tapatalk don't turn that off.
I hope Samsung makes him refund the money they paid him, because they just spent every cent of it to promote iPhone.
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And don't forget Blackberry's marketing spokesman Alicia Keys tweeting from her iPhone.
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No I believe she said she loved her Microsoft Surface.
Also, not publicized, but I noticed this image on No Doubt's instagram feed.
http://instagram.com/p/XVZoXQxpEE/
Gwen, the Windows Phone spokeswoman...
Granted, that could be Tony's iPhone 4/4S there, but they are both on MacBook Pros, so Apple fans, both.
And you'd think Samsung would show him how to configure his Twitter account on Android too.
Gave what away? His old iPhone? Or the Galaxy S4?
That tweet came from an iPhone... which is the whole point of this story.
He typed that specific tweet... but he did it on the wrong phone.
It was for the Microsoft Surface.
Because Apple doesn't pay celebrities to hype their products...because the celebrities are already using their products.