Samsung blackmailing bloggers... - GoFuckYourself.com

DamianJ · 09-03-2012, 05:35 AM

nice

1) Find the biggest phone blogs in india
2) Offer to fly the reporters to Berlin to cover the launch of the Note 2
3) Make them wear Samsung uniforms, and do product demonstrations on the booth all day and when the bloggers say "Hang on a minute, we're reporters not booth babes" say "So what we say, or we will leave you stranded here and chuck you out of your hotel"

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/0...m_medium=share

DamageX · 09-03-2012, 05:40 AM

Business is business?

DWB · 09-03-2012, 05:50 AM

adapt or die, right?

Markul · 09-03-2012, 05:57 AM

I bet that Apple paid for that article lol

Markul · 09-03-2012, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by pornopete

Is the share counter on that site fake? Thing is going up and up and up. Never seen anything like that.

Yes, refresh and it starts over. Makes for one trustworthy news source

Freaky_Akula · 09-03-2012, 06:02 AM

Fake news?

Colmike9 · 09-03-2012, 06:02 AM

It's funny because those types of 'bloggers' think they're real journalists when in reality, they just have an online journal that a few people read..

DamianJ · 09-03-2012, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Markul

Yes, refresh and it starts over. Makes for one trustworthy news source

Um, thenextweb is a very well known and highly trusted news source.

Maybe, and this is a guess, because I am not a programmer, the counter resets at every refresh, polls the stats, and presents the most recent number?

DamianJ · 09-03-2012, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Colmike7

It's funny because those types of 'bloggers' think they're real journalists when in reality, they just have an online journal that a few people read..

Well Samsung thought their sites were so widely read they wanted the bloggers to shill for them.

DamianJ · 09-03-2012, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Freaky_Akula

Fake news?

If it is, which I doubt, they've certainly fooled the internet. A quick search for "samsung india bloggers" on news.google.com shows everyone big has reported it.

Markul · 09-03-2012, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by DamianJ

Maybe, and this is a guess, because I am not a programmer, the counter resets at every refresh, polls the stats, and presents the most recent number?

Yea looks like that's exactly what it does

My bad.

Colmike9 · 09-03-2012, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by DamianJ

Well Samsung thought their sites were so widely read they wanted the bloggers to shill for them.

I would have had a free trip to Japan as a 'blogger' but the fucking nuclear meltdown cancelled that..

So it can't be too hard to get noticed as a 'blogger'..

DamianJ · 09-03-2012, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Colmike7

So it can't be too hard to get noticed as a 'blogger'..

No, you just need a really popular blog that has a lot of visitors.

pornguy · 09-03-2012, 07:26 AM

here let me pay for your tickets and hotel and food for you to talk crap about me..

Yeah thats going to happen.

AllAboutCams · 09-03-2012, 07:29 AM

Who the fuck cares about Samsung biggest pile of shit ever

DamianJ · 09-03-2012, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by pornguy

here let me pay for your tickets and hotel and food for you to talk crap about me..

Yeah thats going to happen.

Yeah, it does happen, all the time. The media are constantly flown around the world by companies to come to launches etc.

I launched a technology magazine in the UK called T3 and there were invites from companies every single day offering exactly that.

However, most don't threaten to leave you stranded in a foreign country if you refuse to do their bidding.

Colmike9 · 09-03-2012, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by pornguy

here let me pay for your tickets and hotel and food for you to talk crap about me..

Yeah thats going to happen.

If they let the bloggers review the products as bloggers and not be their booth slaves, then things would have gone a bit better. Some even specifically said that they would only do it if they went as reporters and not promoters..

helterskelter808 · 09-03-2012, 08:03 AM

Cry me a fucking river.

Let me know when Samsung tries to dictate what consumer products I can and cannot buy.

DamianJ · 09-03-2012, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by helterskelter808

Cry me a fucking river.

Let me know when Samsung tries to dictate what consumer products I can and cannot buy.

Sure, here's one from yesterday and one from a January.

http://www.autoomobile.com/news/goog...ple-2/1002024/

http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-sue...e-ip-08232935/

Everyone sues everyone. It's teh American dream.

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