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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.
Fashion is bullshit, and this is a nerd site. Mock us, prancers.
Do it.
maybe not, sincve nobody likely cares about whatever teh fuck this story is about
So, what is the loophole? Because honestly, that sounds far more interesting to me.
Looks like it's as simple as an entprising group in Italy registered the trademark there before the American company realised or bothered with the rest of the world. (It's hardly a tricky trademark). Unfortunately for these people, for many people "Supreme" is nothing more than a logo and a brand. That's it.
Supreme Italia, aka Supreme Barletta, seems to be a real company that simply bet the NYC company to the punch when it came to registering Futura Heavy Oblique White on a Red Box with the word Supreme within Italy. Presumably, the American firm has ignored them on the grounds that Italy isn't a major player in the streetwear scene, and they're wary of the Strisend effect and do not wish to draw attention to it.
It looks like it's limited to Italy only though.
Anyone really know?
"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.
Any relation with the "Rehabilitation Officer" Beef Supreme?
Pizza toppings
So, they got rid of the headphone jack, but now it includes tomatoes and sour cream? I'm so torn.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
I have a Samsung Galaxy A8 here. It has a headphone jack.
Are you sure? Maybe it's a sticker with a picture of a headphone jack.
If they are going into a fake Supreme store, may as well have fake ports too.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Oh, I thought for a minute that they were partnering with a Motown singing group. It kind of sounds like Samsung tried to hurry love. You can't do that, you know.
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And I quote:
"They be like, "Oh, that Gucci? That's hella tight"
I'm like, "Yo, that's 50 dollars for a t-shirt."
Limited edition, let's do some simple addition
50 dollars for a t-shirt, that's just some ignorant bitch shit
I call that getting-swindled-and-pimped shit
I call that getting tricked by business
That shirt's hella dough
And having the same one as six other people in this club is a hella don't."
Who cares about a silly logo on an average quality yet overpriced shirt? Whether the holder of copyright in that shirt is from New York, Italy or China.
I’m sure she could’ve pointed out any fake Supremes.
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Copyright and Trademark laws in Italy are very interesting, in that I don't think anybody there knows that they exist. And they're certainly not enforced.
If you've ever been to Italy and see an Italian school bus, and you have any concept of western copyright/trademark law, you'll instantly ask yourself when was the last time you saw a school bus painted with an array of Disney and Warner Bros. characters.
galaxy a8 has headphone jack... who is the shill that posted this crap anyway
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a8_(2018)-8886.php
It doesn't beat the thin crust pepperoni though.
They legally got French for "hidden"?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Totally fake Supreme, beliebe me! All rigged by Jiiina! So sad.
Table-ized A.I.
It's not the kind of fake supreme that sings in Mean Machine (or maybe it was Stir Crazy), then?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
...This was an American Horror Story: Apocalypse tie-in.
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
I'd be careful about calling something a fake when it's been tested in court. I imagine the intention is to portray that this Italian company has taken advantage of some weakness in an existing companies trade mark registration, which very well may be the case. A quick look on the web suggests the Italian outfit started off selling the products of the US company, before starting it's own product lines.
Personally if I produced a product and the only thing that differentiated it from another product available on the market was my use of my trademark on the front of the product, i'd really wonder what I was doing. This is a very recent idea in clothing, say 20-30 years old or so. Before then, the trademark would indicate quality, which appears to no longer be the case.
I'd never heard of this "Iconic streetwear brand" called "Supreme" before this. Iconic my butt. This is an ad and you should feel bad.
And now, in a Trumpesque turn of events, the media will now claim that the real Supreme paid the fake Supreme to partner with Samsung to make them famous, and that this was all part of their evil plan from the very beginning.
Does China even care?
This is the country with fake apple stores, pirate movie booths on every street corner, and many other counterfeit goods.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
so you have a tech company (samsung) that is basically ripping of the looks of another tech company (apple)
joining forces with a fashion brand that rips of another fashion brand.
looks like a perfect fit to me!
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
We are all happy for you that you are able to happily get by in the world with a cheap old phone.
We reward you with praise for not trying to be outlandish with having a fancy new phone, it shows how humble and practical person you are. You are truly an original human being. I mean on slashdot we never get posts about new technology without someone saying they are happy with their old system.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Of course USA is not above making fake brands.
That country ignored the real "Havana Club" rum and trademark (despite registration in USA by Cuba), and apparently there is a fake "Havana Club" rum manufactured in Puerto Rico only for sale in USA. USA went as far as make a special law, just for this trademark, so the fake is legal there.
Oh, and USA has fake Budweiser!
Seems to be a bit of hypocrisy in considering the other (legal) Supreme brand as a fake. Trademark law is complex and convoluted...
They have no affiliation with the real Supreme. They are counterfeiters.
It's a strange world when you get mocked over some "real" abstract concept like "intellectual property".
Pretty sure the clothes are "real" and have a similar stupid logo on them. They probably have the same Indian or South American company manufacture the stuff.
what you used to be able to buy with Marlboro points, or Mountain Dew points. Maybe start a new brand and call it Slurm.
That's nothing. I used a Monster USB charging cable on my Samsung phone. My phone now has enough charge to power my entire house for 3 weeks. And the headphone jack outputs ATMOS. My 128bit mp3 songs have never sounded so open. I'm hearing details that I never heard before.
I guess they were not content with just keeping us burning with anticipation for the most explosive devices in the market. Not for nothing are they an on-fire company.
Who else read the headline and thought Samsung was partnering with someone faking being a member of The Supremes?
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I thought all their phones were going to come with sour cream and tomatoes.
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