Samsung’s Boneheaded PR Mistake
By Ed Oswald | Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 2:32 pm
File this one under “So Stupid You Can’t Believe It’s True.” With all the legal hubbub between Apple and Samsung at the moment, you would think both companies would be walking on eggshells. But one of them apparently isn’t paying attention. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber was tipped on Monday that promotional materials for the upcoming Galaxy Player include a very interesting screenshot.
Nestled within the list of features is a section on the Galaxy Player’s Google capabilities. The screenshot is not of the Android OS Google app, though: instead, it is a shot of the Maps app in iOS. Yes, really.
Some enterprising investigative reporting has tracked down the image to female-centric technology blog BlogHer, in a 2008 post about “game changing” iOS apps. How the PR department didn’t notice this when lifting the image is beyond me. Doesn’t Google Image Search tell you where it comes from?
The errant screenshot sat on Samsung’s own website for an unknown amount of time here, but has since been removed. See the image after the jump, you have to see this to believe it!
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October 18th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
What's with the Snickers bar?
December 5th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Funny how people are picking on Samsung for this while lots of very nice features, some of which are not available on the iPhone and iPod Touch, are mentioned on that page! vehicle accident lawyer
October 19th, 2011 at 1:01 am
Funny how people are picking on Samsung for this while lots of very nice features, some of which are not available on the iPhone and iPod Touch, are mentioned on that page!
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December 20th, 2011 at 4:14 am
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December 26th, 2011 at 11:37 am
Funny how people are picking on Samsung for this while lots of very nice features, some of which are not available on the iPhone and iPod Touch, are mentioned on that page!
January 25th, 2012 at 2:11 am
Samsung did this mistake ?
I can not believe this that samsung has done this mistake. This is really shocking news :@
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February 2nd, 2012 at 3:52 am
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