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Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme (droid-life.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Droid Life: Samsung was doing its song and dance in China today at an event where they announced the Galaxy A8s, their first phone equipped with an Infinity-O display, only to pause midway to announce a new partnership. Samsung claimed to be partnering with iconic streetwear brand Supreme. They invited a couple of gentlemen on stage to talk about the deal, including plans for Supreme to enter China next year with a big flagship store. The thing is, those dudes don't work for Supreme and Supreme has no presence in China, nor do they plan to head there next year.
Samsung appears to have been duped by a fake Supreme company or just doesn't care that anyone who pays attention to fashion will mock them for decades to come over this partnership. The Supreme that Samsung is partnering with is actually called Supreme Italia, which is a fake Supreme brand that is able to sell fake Supreme gear, thanks to some weird legal loophole or decision in Italy. They have no affiliation with the real Supreme. They are counterfeiters. As for the Galaxy A8s, it too hasn't been very well received. Not only is it the first Samsung phone without a headphone jack, but it has a laser-drilled hole in the display for the front-facing camera sensor. It's not quite as obstructive as the iPhone X notch, but it still leaves a noticeable hole in the top left corner of the display.
Samsung appears to have been duped by a fake Supreme company or just doesn't care that anyone who pays attention to fashion will mock them for decades to come over this partnership. The Supreme that Samsung is partnering with is actually called Supreme Italia, which is a fake Supreme brand that is able to sell fake Supreme gear, thanks to some weird legal loophole or decision in Italy. They have no affiliation with the real Supreme. They are counterfeiters. As for the Galaxy A8s, it too hasn't been very well received. Not only is it the first Samsung phone without a headphone jack, but it has a laser-drilled hole in the display for the front-facing camera sensor. It's not quite as obstructive as the iPhone X notch, but it still leaves a noticeable hole in the top left corner of the display.
"As for the Galaxy A8, it too hasn't been very well received. Not only is it the first Samsung phone without a headphone jack..."
I have a Samsung Galaxy A8 here. It has a headphone jack. The sound quality is pretty good, also.
Slashdot is truly retarded and fit only for trolling now.
The only people that should be embarrassed are the original brand owners of "Supreme". Supreme is a generic word. That's why it couldn't be protected in Italy against "Supreme Italy". If "Supreme" had won that case, there now would be a run on generic brand names like "Nice" or "Great".
If you don't care about fashion, you really should look up Supreme, because they are the most generic hilarious "fashion" company ever. Their logo is just "Supreme" in white letters with a red background, and their products are just generic products but with "Supreme" slapped on them. Like, literally, they sell "Supreme" bricks - as in, a clay brick that they branded - and stuff like that. Their streetwear mostly looks like stuff you could get at any discount clothing store, but because of the label, people are willing to pay an order of magnitude more.
Or, to put it in other terms, they're Apple, but for clothes.
I vaguely remember this coming up years ago. It has something to do with Italian copyright laws not allowing generic words as brand names.
It's another case of /. editors smokin' crack and spewing shit they know nothing about. It's the Galaxy A8s that doesn't have a headphone jack.