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Samsung's Happy Galaxy Tab Users Are Actors

Posted by timothy on from the why-discriminate-against-actors? dept.

harrymcc writes "At the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando this week, Samsung unveiled new Galaxy Tab tablets and showed videos of interviews with 'true-life' users who raved about the Tab, including a travel writer, a filmmaker, and a real-estate CEO. One problem: the writer and the CEO are actually New York stage actors."

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  1. Re:News flash! by macs4all · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Do you have any doubt that if Apple showed a similar set of videos, they would be videos of real people who actually loved their iPads?"

    No doubt at all. Remember the original "Switcher" campaign? One of the reasons it was discontinued was that the real-life people in the ads started getting harassed/idolized in real-life. They were not actors.

    Contrast that with the one-and-only Windows "switcher", who's picture came straight from Getty Images...