“Benchmarking is serious business, and we’re not saying that tongue-in-cheek,” Paul Lilly reports for HotHardware.
“Buying decisions are often made based on how well a product benchmarks, which is why we spend so much time putting hot (and sometimes not-so-hot) hardware through their paces,” Lilly reports. “However, benchmarks are only meaningful when there’s a level playing field, and when companiestry to ‘game’ the business of benchmarking, it’s not only a form of cheating, it also bamboozles potential buyers who (rightfully) assume the numbers are supposed mean something.”
Lilly reports, “We bring this up because Futuremark just delisted a bunch of devices from its 3DMark benchmark because it suspects foul play is at hand. Delisted devices are stripped of their rank and scores. In this instance, several Samsung and HTC devices are accused of breaking Futuremark’s benchmarking rules. ”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Samsung is truly a despicable company. Do not buy Samsung-branded products.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Wingsy” for the heads up.]
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Here are the results of iOS 7 benchmarks. The more stars given, the higher the score.
Ugliness ********
Unusable *********
Gay *********************
Looks like Android *******
Overall shiftiness **************
you pulled those stars out of your ass you’ve had company i see
@ HTML420 – that’s great – yes this guys a complete ass!
As Gay means happy, we assume that IOS7 makes you very, very happy!
(Because making homophobic remarks is truly A sign of ignorance and immaturity which would immediately wipe out all your other star ratings)
And YOU WIN today’s award for someone who thinks they “won” a debate of any sort by being oh-so anxious to feign indignation and outrage and use that to presume to dictate to others what they can think and how they can express their thoughts.
I understood perfectly well what “iOS 7 benchmarks” meant and also saw that he deliberately used provocative language “gay” to denote a meaning we are all perfectly familiar with.
Your faux indignation impresses be not one twit.
Wow, I can’t believe you just used the G word.
At least you spelt it correctly.
And what’s ‘shiftiness’?
Gay ? what does that have to do with anything ?
You just described yourself to a tee as ugly, unusable, gay in a bad way, looks like a horse’s ass, extremely shifty-eyed and full of BS. Ding ding ding, I think we have a POS winner!
So don’t buy/use it. Simple.
One thing you can always rely on Samsung getting full marks for and that’s encouraging their mindless sycophants to write moronic stuff like that.
i would love to get paid to write silly little negative comments on my employers competitors websites.
how much does it pay and where do i sign up?
So you just described yourself dumb ass! Your handle is @iOS7 benchmarks and you proceeded to describe the “iOS7 benchmarks” in the rest of your post. Brilliant!
Don’t buy on specs. Buy on performance. And don not let anyone bamboozle you
What the previous poster failed to mention:
Lower scores are better.
There, fixed that for you.
WOW! That’s horrible … I guess …
By the way, who in the hell is Futuremark? And who in the hell ever bought something based on a Futuremark benchmark test result?
Futuremark is one of the most well know of the “benchmark” testers.
And… Well no one who buy’s iPhones (ironically they do benchmark at the top of the scale)
However this is a large conundrum for the “techie speccie” types who normally buy android. The fact that Apple’s phones were already beating them (handily) finding out that samsung (and many- perhaps even MOST) android vendors are cheating to even come close to LAST YEARS iPhones benchmarks drives them batshit nuts.
Fandroids use benchmarks. After all, what else have they got to compare with? All Android phones work the same way. They copy iPhone.
I use them for deciding what graphics card to buy. They’re helpful for individual components, but no, they won’t tell you about the overall perceived experience of a computer or phone.
I wonder what J D Powers is going to do since they rated the Samsung tablet above the iPad!
Fandroids will blame Apple for pressuring Futuremark to take this step.
Hey, GregL, who died and made you Elvis?
Don’t seek to lecture others on being outraged and indignant, you just look like a pedantic asshole.
A recent survey of benchmarking in smartphones and tablets showed that to some extent ALL the major players were cheating on the benchmarks EXCEPT Motorola and Apple. It’s not just Samsung and HTC. Some cheat on several benchmarks, some only on certain benchmarks and some only on specific parts of a single benchmark. But other than just Motorola and Apple, they’ve ALL cheated on benchmarks within the last year or so. This is only news to those who have not been paying attention.
Right; I’m guessing you’re referring to this one – http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/
Maybe more people would quit buying Samsung and Google products if you would quit selling them advertising space.