Samsung spamming twitter!

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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/26/apple-samsung-twitter-spam/?source=yahoo_quote

Not only were they posted — with links to the DisplayMate report — two dozen times between them, but judging from the photos attached to the accounts (see above), they were posted by some particularly comely tweeters.

“This is not a bunch of fans just bragging about their great device,” writes reader Walt French, who spotted the repeats. ”I’m gonna guess this is somehow Sammy’s PR shop.”

I can’t prove it. But having seen what one article critical of Samsung dirty tricks did to the Apple 2.0 comment stream, I wouldn’t put it past them.

Pretty funny! Hahahahahahahaha

And this article about Samsung playing dirty with apple.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/20/apple-samsung-dirty-tricks/

Revealed as a patent copycat last summer by a California jury’s $1.05 billion verdict — a PR disaster of the first order that shook top management and tarnished the image of an entire nation — Samsung quietly declared war on Apple.

Drawing on a massive $5.3 billion sales, promotion and marketing budget, the company poured a fortune into a high-profile ad campaign designed to caricature Apple’s customers as foolish sheep. Meanwhile at the retail level it paid mobile phone salespeople cash “spiffs” (bonuses) for every smartphone customer they could persuade to choose Samsung over Apple.

Behind the scenes, the company engaged in more surreptitious stratagems. It began paying students and other heavy users of social media to post anonymous messages talking up the virtues of Samsung’s products and spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about Apple and other competitors.

On this link, he theorized as a joke that Samsung created an abundance of shorts to drop the Mac share price, causing concern for investors. I thought that was pretty funny.

 

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Oh btw, in my business, we have plenty of companies that use smear campaigns on us. Some we have to go after because they are blatantly lying and such. The others, we actually respect that they have a solid product that competes with us.

Personally I think Samsung is the best thing that can happen to apple. There is a company out there that has products that can compete with apple. It tells apple to stop being complacent and innovate. Look to what got you to this level in the first place!

 

[Elton]

Agreed about Samsung. They are good for Apple, and I will soon be trading in my iPhone 5 for a GS4. Dirty smear campaigns or not, they're products are evolving faster than Apples.

 

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Agreed about Samsung. They are good for Apple, and I will soon be trading in my iPhone 5 for a GS4. Dirty smear campaigns or not, they're products are evolving faster than Apples.

So how do they work with all the songs you buy from iTunes?

 

[porkchopexpress]

So how do they work with all the songs you buy from iTunes?

Not sure about the GS4, but I have the Nexus4. I uploaded my entire library, including songs purchased via iTunes (excluding one album that had DRM) to my Google Play account. I can now download any of those songs to a set number (not sure if its 3 or something) of mobile devices plus I can stream it all. I think the limit is 20,000 songs. All of that was free, unlike the apple match witch I think is $25/year.