“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.'”
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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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