“Spanish tennis player David Ferrer sent a tweet out to his more than 350,000 followers noting his pleasure with using Samsung’s new Galaxy S4, but accidentally sent the message from his iPhone,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“Ferrer intended to send out a tweet stating he was very happy with his #GalaxyS4 and that he was ‘configuring S Health on my new #GalaxyS4 to help with training @SamsungMobile,'” Dilger reports. “He neglected to notice that the advertisement was being labeled as ‘via Twitter from iPhone’ because he actually uses an iPhone.”
“Before scrambling to take it down, the message was noted by Jaime Novoa and picked up by the Spanish edition of the Huffington Post,” Dilger reports. “After reposting the message without the telltale iPhone reference, his tweet was heckled by couple followers, one who wrote ‘Pues bien que lo envías desde un iPhone @SamsungMobile’ (‘I send from an iPhone’). Another made reference to his ‘iPhoneGalaxy4.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Shades of Oprah. More money well-spent by the criminals at Samsung. The plastic knockoff peddlers should have spent some of it on build quality.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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Love!
Shmucks.
It happens almost every time.
Once Oprah advertised Samsung on Apple’s devices, another time supermodels (or whoever) that Samsung invited to their SGS presentation flashed their iPhones left and right. I could not remember other stories, but there were plenty.
Cheap squeaky plastic of SGS does not fit to people who want something classy and refined.
These expose’s of Samsung “testimonial” shills are going to be quite beneficial to iPhone.
Who, that doesn’t live in a cave, is going to believe that future Samsung “testimonials” are nothing more than paid shills (using iPhones)?
Never underestimate how gulible the uninformed and uncaring are
Ferrar was paid by Samsung. Obviously they don’t pay enough to get him to give up his iPhone.
Hate to break it to you, but most people live in a cave. In America, it’s especially worrying. When the union falls, it’ll be the people who are to blame:
42% of Americans Unaware ObamaCare is Law of the Land
Sick and sad. This country just might be doomed.
Sadly, I would not be surprised if 42% of Americans didn’t know who Obama is.
And then of course there is everyone like F2T2 who hate Obamacare, but couldn’t explain a single valid reason why, except “Obama.”
Sick and sad. This country just might be doomed.
FUD. But I understand the sentiment. Just don’t pretend F-T that your Neo-Con-Job pals aren’t prime crooks behind that ‘doom.’ What a gang of blithering, self-destructive dicks. (Not that the Democrats have guts enough to stop our Corporate Oligarchy’s machinations)
If ‘doom’ happens, there’s plenty of blame for corruption and stupidity to go around. A plague on both your parties.
A better translation “Well, how good that you sent it from an iPhone.”
Samsung S4 rocks!!! <3 😀 $$
sent from my iPhone
Reminds me of when Steve Ballmer was showing off the new Microsoft Vista OS on a Macbook. He had know idea what laptop it was. He was only happy that it didn’t crash that day. He assumed it was a HP or Dell laptop.
I am going to miss the Dancing Monkey when they let him go. Maybe he can get a job a Blackberry or Nokia and keep the magic flowing.
Whqt about the billion dollar server farms?
Samsung S4 rock!!! <3 $$
sent from my iPhone
Mucking Foron.
When you can only chase your competition with the same trade dress; what the hell, buy some cheap Escorts to hang on your jock strap.
Shades of Microsoft under Bill Gates.
Love this faux love affair PAID endorsers by Samsung have of Samsung’s products. I’m not bilingual, but how do you laugh in Spanish???
Try: ¡ja, ja, juaaaaa!
Obelix in the spanish version of the comic: “Este tío está majareta” (This guy is bonkers).
I didn’t realize David Ferrer was part of the Chinese media… 🙂
The backstory is that scrolling the S4 one handed was aggravating his tennis elbow, so he wasn’t using it much.
Hmmm….an ad, wrapped around a commercial, inside an endorsement.
Delicious!
No…A marketing scandal erupting around an ad, wrapped around a commercial, inside an endorsement.
That’s even better!
Are all Koreans this dumb or is it just Samsung’s marketing department?
I don’t know. The only Koreans that I’ve met and talked to were my keyboard instructor at NTSU (tetra-chord uh-posit-she un) and a very young YoYoMa (by accident before a gig).
Oh, and that prick, a Karate instructor’s son, in 4th grade…..
Crap, strike that. I forgot YoYo was Chinese.
Oh TowerTone. Loose with the facts as ever. Will you never learn? Research, then speak.
Yo-Yo Ma is a US citizen, aka American. If you’d like to consider his ancestral heritage, here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist…. Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris… to Chinese parents…. His family moved to New York when he was five years old.
I.E., by birth, Yo-Yo Ma is French and became a naturalized US citizen. His PARENTS were Chinese.
He is of Chinese descent was the point.
And nobody cares what you think, Derek.
Now go get some conditioner for those hairs you’re splitting….
Good job Samsung helping Apple. Proving the iPhone can send tweets because he can’t figure it out on the Galaxy S4 apparently. Keep bribing people to use your product because you certainly are helping Apple out a lot.
Lame company
Boycott Samdung – slimy company
DOH!
-Homer Simpson
Assclown.
Accidentally?
Ferrer is a paid shill. He did what he was paid to do — on the device he actually uses.
I just arrived in Chiang Mai. I wanted to post on my blog, at Blogspot, but all of the headings are now in Thai, not English. Is the problem with my computer, or the hotel’s wi-fi service, or what? How can I get things back to English again?.