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Samsung couldn't resist turning the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge into an ad

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This is legit but is sooooooo biased it's almost not funny anymore...

Oh wait that's cause it isn't xD

What? Biased? Did you watch the video? Bias doesn't even enter into the objective conclusion you can make that they did something strange in that ad.

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Since it's a phone and not a person, how about a boiling water challenge?

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Correct me if I'm wrong but the ice bucket challenge started as a stand alone thing (like, months ago). The charity part has only very recently been attached to it, it's not like anyone is obliged to mention ALS or similar.

 

 

No mention here, or many others that I've seen.

 

To do it NOW without mentioning ALS is pretty slack, though.

 

Also lol, the time on the phone time changes from 2:16 to 2:50. Guess it didn't survive that one...

We were doing this in New Zealand like 2 months ago...


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I think the ALS challenge is stupid personally, Nice going Samsung on the twist!

 

It's raised over $50 million for ALS research since it started. What's stupid about that?

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What? Biased? Did you watch the video? Bias doesn't even enter into the objective conclusion you can make that they did something strange in that ad.

>.> I said they were right it was faked but that doesn't make it any less biased with the way they were bringing entirely unrelated and subjective things into the picture to make samsung look worst; I honestly can't believe the took the damn ad seriously... IT WAS A DAMN JOKE... 

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>.> I said they were right it was faked but that doesn't make it any less biased with the way they were bringing entirely unrelated and subjective things into the picture to make samsung look worst; I honestly can't believe the took the damn ad seriously... IT WAS A DAMN JOKE... 

A joke? They were trying to claim it could survive the ice bucket challenge, and it couldn't.

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Was gonna say something because this isn't that big of a deal lol.

Main thing was them "abusing" the ALS challenge by using to their own advantage.

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A joke? They were trying to claim it could survive the ice bucket challenge, and it couldn't.

So in jokes everything has to be factual? SINCE WHEN? And how many times has apple done stuff like this and everyone reaction was just "it's just apple being apple" or the like...

And the guys reviewing this at daring fireball didn't need to just bring up the 840 evo and call it a cheater xD that's the part that pissed me off it's like this guys clearly biased as hell bringing up unrelated products to smite the company and using slanderous and false terms to describe it it's not cheating the 840Evo may use software to increase it's speeds thats like saying graphics cards cheat for having drivers it's not like a faster drive than 840Evo (like 730 from intel for example) couldn't repeat half them things to be even faster xD they just didn't think of it first...

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We were doing this in New Zealand like 2 months ago...

 

Yeah, I think it might have started there or here in Australia.

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It's raised over $50 million for ALS research since it started. What's stupid about that?

Nothing. Its just the waste of water and people getting hurt that has made it stupid. Either way it has worked, its still stupid imo.

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So in jokes everything has to be factual? SINCE WHEN? And how many times has apple done stuff like this and everyone reaction was just "it's just apple being apple" or the like...

And the guys reviewing this at daring fireball didn't need to just bring up the 840 evo and call it a cheater xD that's the part that pissed me off it's like this guys clearly biased as hell bringing up unrelated products to smite the company and using slanderous and false terms to describe it it's not cheating the 840Evo may use software to increase it's speeds thats like saying graphics cards cheat for having drivers it's not like a faster drive than 840Evo (like 730 from intel for example) couldn't repeat half them things to be even faster xD they just didn't think of it first...

It was pretty clearly not a joke. When Apple does stuff like this, (and I urge you to find an example) there video is not obviously fudged. I added the thing about benchmarks, (notice the end quote?) and it wasn't about the SSDs. Samsung used to (they might still) put software on their phones that put them into a turbo mode that disabled background apps and powersaving features when a benchmark was detected to be running.

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It was pretty clearly not a joke. When Apple does stuff like this, (and I urge you to find an example) there video is not obviously fudged. I added the thing about benchmarks, (notice the end quote?) and it wasn't about the SSDs. Samsung used to (they might still) put software on their phones that put them into a turbo mode that disabled background apps and powersaving features when a benchmark was detected to be running.

Ah I mis understood but as said don't bring up other products when speaking about this kind of thing and the word cheater still doesn't apply... Any phone could do that and most phones don't just to save battery life...

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Ah I mis understood but as said don't bring up other products when speaking about this kind of thing and the word cheater still doesn't apply... Any phone could do that and most phones don't just to save battery life...

Except iPhones don't and Android phones do...

 

Samsung is a very corrupt company anyways, so all of this is unsurprising.

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wow, kindergarten level video editing, that phone switch was unbearable to watch  :(

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It's too mainstream or something

so whaT...it helps people
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its supposed to be to help people...  Help raise awareness...  Not for marketing... 

 

Samsung are dead to me. 

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I think the ALS challenge is stupid personally, Nice going Samsung on the twist!

 

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its supposed to be to help people...  Help raise awareness...  Not for marketing... 

 

Samsung are dead to me. 

 

There is no claim to the concept if it is your intention to 'make something go viral'. It's the charity's job to milk it while it's flavour of the week, and they've done that. 

 

 

Ofc out of touch marketing departments and other entities will try and hop on the bandwagon. It's around that point that it becomes less about charity and awareness and more about how-much-this-shit-annoys-you, because it's everywhere and been done to death.

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People here need to stop getting butt hurt so easily, you sound like a bunch of 5 year olds crying because little timmy made a silly face that  you didnt like.

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they paid, they told TONS of people about the charity campaign, just accept this

 

 

I will take this back if i hear that they only gave 100$ :P

 

Agreed. As long as they actually donated quite a bit im fine with it. I expected a lot more people to take advantage of this honestly.

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