Samsung fakes Galaxy Tab beta user testimony in video?
Summary: Often, when introducing a new product, technology companies produce a video with users of the prerelease product during its beta test phase. However, it appears that Samsung's marketing department may have gotten ahead of the development process and released a video showing fake customers extolling the advantages of the Galaxy.
How far will Apple's tablet competitors go to get a leg up on Cupertino? Maybe a step too far?
Often, when introducing a new product, technology companies produce a video with users of the prerelease product during its beta test phase. However, it appears that Samsung's marketing department may have gotten ahead of the development process and released a video showing fake customers extolling the advantages of the Galaxy.
Harry McCracken at Technologizer says he uncovered the fakes while at the CTIA Wireless press event. First, he found that there were no working versions of the new 10.1-inc Galaxy Tab tablet.
Then he noticed that the featured "Samsung Galaxy Tab Interview Project” was filled with actors playing characters that happen to be target market customers for tablets: a travel writer, film director and CEO.
As I watched the interviews, I noticed that Shefelman spoke and behaved more or less like a normal person, but Hess and Kolinksi came off as performers dressed for their parts and parroting Samsung talking points. I couldn’t tell whether we were supposed to take the clips as a documentary or a mockumentary. So I Googled around and couldn’t find any references to a travel-writing Joan Hess (one with, as she said, a following on Twitter) or a real-estate CEO Joseph Kolinski.
Check out the story. McCracken shows separated-at-birth-style comparisons of the actors and the supposedly real characters. You can watch the video here.
I have seen many of these video promotions. By my reckoning, all of the ones shown at Apple rollouts were on the level. If this Samsung video turns out to be fake, it ain't going to help the Galaxy's cred.
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RE: Samsung fakes Galaxy Tab beta user testimony in video?
And Samsung's mockups of
This isn't the first time Google and their partner deceived the public
Google's business practice is based on lies since most of their products are inferior copies.
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Yeah I didn't think so. Sucks that you are so personally into the Galaxy Tab to realize that Samsung has yet again tried to pull the wool over the public's eye - remember those oh so great sales figures that Samsung counted as retail when around half of them were to distributors and not the general public?
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Samsung has become very untrustworthy.
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Might want to check your facts. Compared to the iPad, there weren't even tons produced, let alone shipped.
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@Peter Perry
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Oh and for those of you who think the guy is a saint you really should watch Pirates of Silicon Valley and checkout the way he treated his first born... Then watch why the industry and Apple turned on him to begin with (Woz said everything in the movie happened)... This guy is a sociopath and if you think his motives aren't controlled by his rush for Power you're wrong.
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And you are pulling the 1,000,000 figure directly out of your nether regions.
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Wow, could you be any more obvious switching the subject?!? No one was talking about the Streak! Besides which, giving them away means that the number distributed has NO bearing on popularity. More to the point, even by your own estimates, and even with giving them away, they didn't meet your stated criterion of 1,000,000 units. Again you just pulled that figure out of your ass. But all of a sudden those 1,000,000 sold becomes several hundred thousand shipped.
Hint: 1,000,000 is an order of magnitude greater than several hundred thousand. Not to mention the fact that units shipped has NO bearing on units sold.
So much for intellectual honesty.
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No he didn't. Jobs, unlike Gates, paid XEROX 150 million dollars.
You should restrict yourself to posting on topics you have even a slight degree of familiarity with.
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1) It seemed as if they were presenting their tablets to a near empty hall. No shots of the supposed crowd and the applause were almost non existent.
2) Not a single demo of the actual product. Just a bunch of concept videos.
No, this does not look or feel like competition to the iPad yet.
Enough with the mouthware!
Even if Samsung makes their date, Apple will have sold another ten million units between now and then.
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I have no say in this argument but this is all speculative at best and until such times as this is proven it isn't even news worthy...
As for the devices themselves... they have working units they just aren't the thinner styling... There are videos where they show the device functioning so if you think they cannot shrink that down in 4 months you're crazy.