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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. News flash! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Marketing = lies. Is anyone really surprised?

    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...

  2. News at 11... by hamster_nz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guess what? The people in ads are, well, actors.

    And for the uber-naive, some online reviews are written by the product's manufactures!

    1. Re:News at 11... by AK+Marc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's fine, as long as you don't introduce the actor as "Dr. Joe Smith, M.D. here to endorse our penile enlargement program" when Joe is a janitor and wannabe actor. That's not "acting" or "marketing." It's just plain fraud.

      --
      Learn to love Alaska
  3. How many /.ers actually WTFV? by drb226 · · Score: 5, Informative
    (Watched The Fine Video)

    I was skeptical, but I have to admit it went beyond my expectations

    OK. Yes. I understand that most of the time, people in ads are actors. But this pushes it too far. It apparently shows the actor's real name, and (real?) age, and fake profession. Then these actors are "interviewed" about their "reaction" to the Galaxy tab. I can understand putting comments like "it's just what I need!" in a fake ad. I can also understand using an actor to portray the testimonial of some other real person. But this appears to be 100% fabricated. When you start inventing "skeptical" people that turn believer about your product, you're stepping over the line.

    (That said, I think the Galaxy Tab is freaking awesome and would love to have one.)

  4. Re:why are putting up with this shit? by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, the liar there is whoever named the department, not those who work there!

    Support Agent: No sir, we haven't heard of any other reports of spiders coming out of our cell phones. You must have left it somewhere the spiders could get to it.
    Customer: What? There are 1,000's of posts about this in your support forums!
    Support Agent: We're not responsible for what people post in our forums.
    Customer: Hey, look, your CEO is on the news. He's been taken to the hospital with what appears to be a poisonous spider bite!
    Support Agent: That's impossible sir. I know for a fact that our CEO uses the model that uses shellfish extract for it's finish and has the random scorpion in the box. He does not use the model that has the spiders in it.