Sammy caught doing something slimy: Just another Thursday.
Real question is when will they get punched in the mouth for it. A fine or punishment that really wakes them up. Right now its cheap: rot HTC's home market with ridiculous astroturfing, and pay 400K for the marketing costs, thats peanuts.
"Numerous anti-Apple bloggers here and on Marketwatch, etc, have taken the considerable time and energies to pen lengthy post which disparage Apple management, its products and its customers, typically using rumor and speculation rather than hard facts. I have assumed for a year that many of them are all on the Samsung payroll. Is there a way to prove it?"
They've been doing it since at least 2006-7. Many large corporations hire social marketing firms to either polish their own image or to tarnish their competitor's images on various message boards. I'm not sure how they bill the corporations for this, but I doubt the costs are well-hidden even if their methods are.
I've talked actually talked to account managers that have non-chanlantly admitted that they write their own reviews on their account's product's website (source: have worked in online %u2014 not social marketing %u2014 advertising for over a decade).
Bloggers may do it out of some misguided sense of "fighting for their team."
Samsung is no stranger to shady business tactics. One difference is that Samsung is more in the spot light lately due to its successful Galaxy line and news writers are paying more attention to Samsung related shenanigans.
Numerous anti-Apple bloggers here and on Marketwatch, etc, have taken the considerable time and energies to pen lengthy post which disparage Apple management, its products and its customers, typically using rumor and speculation rather than hard facts. I have assumed for a year that many of them are all on the Samsung payroll. Is there a way to prove it?
And what has that gotten them? Even with all this paid FUD (that has been going on for years), and Samsung's massive marjeting budget which drowns out everything everywhere I go, Apple can still sell 10 million devices in a weekend.
"We welcome the scrutiny from the media. Due to problems with management that brought inconvenience to our customers, the company expresses its sincerest of apologies," read a message on Samsung's Chinese website, according toComputerWorld.
Problems with management?
Bit of an understatement given that Samsung is managed by a convicted criminal with zero morals.
The fine is laughable, Samsung probably spends more on bribes and buying bloggers.
[QUOTE]Samsung later admitted to the wrongdoing, saying the "incident was unfortunate, and occurred due to insufficient understanding of these [the company's] fundamental principles."[/QUOTE]
I'd say they understood Samsung's 'fundamental principles' just fine....
Meanwhile, on Wednesday of this week, Samsung issued a written apology to Chinese consumers following a China Central Television report regarding hardware flaws Samsung's Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 devices. A firmware problem in the devices can reportedly lead to memory chip damage, forcing the handsets to crash multiple times per day.
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The shame is that most of teens in Russia , are still trying to posture themselves through making they way in denial, so they pick up "deaddroids" just to prove that they are not like a whole world of " applefun idiots"...so they think, so they Do. But time isn't stand still and one day they realize - :What have I done....) ones who rumoring is always ones who envy;)
How about doing the same here? And there? And everywhere?
Would you sue them in a box? Would you sue them with a fox? Would you sue them on a train? Sue them, sue them! End their reign.
My own issue with Samsung is predominantly the leadership, not necessarily everyone who works for them. That would include many people in the US and a variety of other countries (not going to look up every one of them).
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Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee
- Please, everyone knows the marketing firm Samsung hired did this on their own.
- Samsung isn't responsible if someone they hire steps out of bounds.
- Apple does it too, so it's OK.
Did I miss any?
I would blame the companies doing the hiring in either case.
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Real question is when will they get punched in the mouth for it. A fine or punishment that really wakes them up. Right now its cheap: rot HTC's home market with ridiculous astroturfing, and pay 400K for the marketing costs, thats peanuts.
They've been doing it since at least 2006-7. Many large corporations hire social marketing firms to either polish their own image or to tarnish their competitor's images on various message boards. I'm not sure how they bill the corporations for this, but I doubt the costs are well-hidden even if their methods are.
I've talked actually talked to account managers that have non-chanlantly admitted that they write their own reviews on their account's product's website (source: have worked in online %u2014 not social marketing %u2014 advertising for over a decade).
Bloggers may do it out of some misguided sense of "fighting for their team."
This is hardly surprising from a company that blatantly copies competitors, cheats on benchmark scores, and the list goes on.
... the company was accused of using "dirty tricks" ...
Ya think?
This is hilarious... and sad. But mostly hilarious.
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Just the other day I was accusing certain people of being paid Fandroid shills on this forum.
And guess what, I believe it even more now!
Samsung is so dirty and so are Fandroids.
Numerous anti-Apple bloggers here and on Marketwatch, etc, have taken the considerable time and energies to pen lengthy post which disparage Apple management, its products and its customers, typically using rumor and speculation rather than hard facts. I have assumed for a year that many of them are all on the Samsung payroll. Is there a way to prove it?
And what has that gotten them? Even with all this paid FUD (that has been going on for years), and Samsung's massive marjeting budget which drowns out everything everywhere I go, Apple can still sell 10 million devices in a weekend.
"We welcome the scrutiny from the media. Due to problems with management that brought inconvenience to our customers, the company expresses its sincerest of apologies," read a message on Samsung's Chinese website, according to ComputerWorld.
Problems with management?
Bit of an understatement given that Samsung is managed by a convicted criminal with zero morals.
The fine is laughable, Samsung probably spends more on bribes and buying bloggers.
The fine is laughable, Samsung probably spends more on bribes and buying bloggers.
Quite right - like being caught speeding and being fined a penny.
Hell, I'd probably do it all the time.
I'd say they understood Samsung's 'fundamental principles' just fine....
An apology in China
Meanwhile, on Wednesday of this week, Samsung issued a written apology to Chinese consumers following a China Central Television report regarding hardware flaws Samsung's Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 devices. A firmware problem in the devices can reportedly lead to memory chip damage, forcing the handsets to crash multiple times per day.
The saying, "It's not a bug, it's a feature" springs to mind.
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How about doing the same here? And there? And everywhere?
Would you sue them in a box? Would you sue them with a fox? Would you sue them on a train? Sue them, sue them! End their reign.
My own issue with Samsung is predominantly the leadership, not necessarily everyone who works for them. That would include many people in the US and a variety of other countries (not going to look up every one of them).
- Please, everyone knows the marketing firm Samsung hired did this on their own.
- Samsung isn't responsible if someone they hire steps out of bounds.
- Apple does it too, so it's OK.
Did I miss any?
I would blame the companies doing the hiring in either case.