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Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by Johnny555 »

Angostura wrote: post #138
noxToken wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IF you like a smart TV but not the smart features (but have no dumb alternative), then don't connect it to the Internet. Now it's just a dumb TV.

Except of course that dumb TVs used to at least offer programme guide. Now you can't even get that without an internet connection

The only program guide I've seen on a dumb TV is the scrolling display from my cable provider - which it displays over HDMI, not internet.

If it's displaying anything from the internet, then I don't think it's still a "dumb TV".

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by Johnny555 »

kop316 wrote: post #139
cgriswald wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Samsung is completely untrustworthy. I might buy another television from them in the future as the screen quality on my Samsung televisions has always been great. But their smart appliances are a joke. Read the reviews for any of the required Samsung "Smart" Apps and you'll find terrible software that doesn't work. Where it does work, at best it technically meets the advertised criteria, but in other cases it seems l…

I had a Samsung Dryer whose heating element died three years after I purchased it brand new. They only have a warrenty of one year, I could only find grey market parts, and I would have had to completely disassemble it to replace it. It was far easier to replace it, and I will not buy Samsung appliances again.

Surprise - modern appliances aren't made with easy maintenance in mind -- I had to disassemble my entire dryer to replace a $15 guide wheel. Took me nearly an entire day to do it, and would have been cost prohibitive to pay someone else to do it. (and indeed, if I priced out my own time it wouldn't have been worth it, but I liked the challenge)

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by Drdrdrq »

Symbiote wrote: post #88
rococode wrote: post #68

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Are there more trustworthy options for Android smartphones in the US? I was recently shopping for an upgrade from my LG G4 and settled for the S9+. I'm pretty satisfied, actually, but it really felt like I had an extremely limited selection From my understanding, the only flagship-level choices that aren't big hassles to to get are Samsung (Galaxy/Note), Google (Pixel), OnePlus, LG. Of those, LG seems to be the only…

Not in the US, but I'm happy with my Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact. (It's a year old now.) I was able to disable almost all the Sony apps with little difficulty, and the "What's new?" notification that appears every 2-3 months I just swipe away. (Of flagship-level Android phones that aren't huge, i.e. fit in my pocket without bending even while cycling or sitting, the Sony ### Compacts have been the only choice for the las…

The "What's new" annoyance will go away in a year or two, when they stop making upgrades for your phone. :-/

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by megy »

cgriswald wrote: post #58
peterangular wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep - zero trust is exactly right... I bought a Samsung smart watch for Black Friday for $280-ish. Figured "hey - this will probably have better calendar/application support than my Garmin watch!" Nope. Literally can't get it to vibrate/alert when a notification comes through unless it's through Samsung's SPECIFIC applications. So my HipChat messages, Gmail inbox, etc have ZERO notifications even though it WILL show…

Samsung is completely untrustworthy. I might buy another television from them in the future as the screen quality on my Samsung televisions has always been great. But their smart appliances are a joke. Read the reviews for any of the required Samsung "Smart" Apps and you'll find terrible software that doesn't work. Where it does work, at best it technically meets the advertised criteria, but in other cases it seems l…

> I've got a Samsung washer/dryer. They're fine.

I would not be so sure, they have a recall on a number of units:

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/man-saves-hom...

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by Johnny555 »

oh_sigh wrote: post #59
pavel_lishin wrote: post #40

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How many fuck-ups do you require before writing off a company? Would the entire board have to personally come and shit in your mailbox?

The question isn't how many, but the scale of the fuck-up, and what it represents about the company. Maybe 5 people would have known that this ad campaign was using a non-phone-produced photo. Apparently that is enough for you to indict the 300,000+ people who work there.

And many others just don't care.

When I'm shopping for a phone, I don't trust any of the company's own marketing collateral, I seek out independent reviews.

Even if the photos were genuinely from the phone, they'll have combed through thousands of photos to pick the very best ones, which is nearly as bad as using a stock photo.

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by gehsty »

sschueller wrote: post #78

Kind of lazy for Samsung to do that when their phones and others manufactures actually can take some astonishing pictures. But even Apple "cheats" a bit with their photos which are shot on an actual iPhone. [1] [1] https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/shotoniphone-80...

Wow never seen that before any idea what it / is how it works? Just a fancy lens mount? I would have thought the tiny focal length of the iPhone camera would make any lens a bit of a disaster...but I guess apple could have one made with all that cash they have :)

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by autoexec »

cgriswald wrote: post #58
peterangular wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep - zero trust is exactly right... I bought a Samsung smart watch for Black Friday for $280-ish. Figured "hey - this will probably have better calendar/application support than my Garmin watch!" Nope. Literally can't get it to vibrate/alert when a notification comes through unless it's through Samsung's SPECIFIC applications. So my HipChat messages, Gmail inbox, etc have ZERO notifications even though it WILL show…

Samsung is completely untrustworthy. I might buy another television from them in the future as the screen quality on my Samsung televisions has always been great. But their smart appliances are a joke. Read the reviews for any of the required Samsung "Smart" Apps and you'll find terrible software that doesn't work. Where it does work, at best it technically meets the advertised criteria, but in other cases it seems l…

Samsung is the one company I've decided to never get a TV from because of their privacy issues but also because they are so intrusive in their efforts to push ads. Buying a Samsung TV is like asking for commercials in the middle of every bluray or DVD you watch.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/11/8017771/samsung-smart-tvs...

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by bcohen5055 »

Angostura wrote: post #138
noxToken wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IF you like a smart TV but not the smart features (but have no dumb alternative), then don't connect it to the Internet. Now it's just a dumb TV.

Except of course that dumb TVs used to at least offer programme guide. Now you can't even get that without an internet connection

There is a system for TV Meta Data to be sent over the air and TVs with tuners used to be able to read this data and create an on screen guide. I had this on one of the first HDTVs I got but haven't seen it since

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_and_System_Information...

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by megy »

oh_sigh wrote: post #70
mook wrote: post #69

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It's not indicting 300,000+ people, it's one person: the chairman of Samsung Electronics for not having set a culture where blatant lying results in negative repercussions.

Did you give him a chance to fire this marketing professional in Malaysia? 299,995/300,000 behave well. 5 people misbehave. Bad culture!

> 299,995/300,000 behave well.

Can you prove that? These guys were caught, does it mean the others just haven't been caught yet? What about the G7 battery explosions? What about the washing machines catching fire? What about last time Samsung faked images? What about when they faked benchmarks?

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by megy »

conradev wrote: post #77
reaperducer wrote: post #44

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I view this as more of an example of a company's marketing showing their product in the best possible light. But it doesn't show their product in the best possible light. It shows some DSLR company's product in the best possible light. It's like a magazine ad for a Kia, and inside the car photo the dashboard has been replaced with a Tesla's.

Or a commercial for McDonald’s, except instead of using real food, they use fake stuff that looks better.

No, it is like a McDonalds ad, but instead they show a burger from a fancy burger place that costs 4x as much.
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