“China Central Television has criticized South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for charging customers to repair devices which the state broadcaster says are defective because of a manufacturing error,” Matthew Miller reports for Reuters.
“CCTV in a program broadcast late Monday said internal multimedia cards cause the software of Samsung’s Note and S series of smartphones to seize up,” Miller reports. “Li Yi, a consultant to the Ministry of Information Industry who spoke in the program, said on his Weibo microblog after the broadcast that CCTV’s priority is to ‘protect domestic consumers from the bullying of foreign brands.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Samsung Electronics makes bad knockoffs of Apple products. What do those who settle for patent-infringing garbage expect?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ted” for the heads up.]
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Maybe the looming 18 Billion EU SEP fine and Apple 1.2 Billion judgement may have had a pucker affect on Samsung. Thus, not cutting the monthly checks… unhappy people write negative words!
Apple earlier was on CCTV’s hot seat. I’m glad to see they are equal opportunity bashers.
Fact is China is going to hit at any successful foreign company to limit, control and bend them to its will as its market importance grows. This is just the phoney war, once its and other Asian markets it can control are the dominant part of its production and sales it will start to seriously hold the West to ransom methinks. Happy days.
There are so many Caribbean nations that have had China involved with building roads, stadiums and sewers. Not the shops sell nothing but Chinese knockoff products.
This is great news, because the Samsung buyers suffered difficulties and they deserved it for choosing cheap photocopy, stolen ip Samsung tablets. YAAY !! 😀
If it is indeed CCTV’s priority is to “protect domestic consumers from the bullying of foreign brands.” I guess we’ll be seeing a boycott of most South Korean products along with the planet’s main bully, the US.
Samsung doesn’t know what it is copying?
Oh yeah~~~ Put Anti-Americanism aside for a sec…Nationalism against the Koreans, I totally forgot! Yahoo! Go China and your fake legal system!!
THIS FEELS SOOO GOOD!!!!
It’s a battle of the cat eaters versus the dog eaters. What a matchup!