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A marketing page at the number one spot on Hacker News, and only 35 minutes old. Hmm.
by brb3 7y ago
A marketing page at the number one spot on Hacker News, and only 35 minutes old. Hmm.
- danem 7y agoHow is this any different than what happens after every Apple product launch?
- tengbretson 7y agoWell for starters a lot of HN users actually use the products Apple launches.
- zitterbewegung 7y agoAnd a lot of those product launches have Samsung displays in them .
- ralusek 7y agoI'm on a Samsung device right now you dullard.
- wayneftw 7y agoEvery television in my house is a Samsung and all of my Android phones are too.
- tengbretson 7y agoI have no hesitation in saying that you will never own, nor be in the market for this product.
- wayneftw 7y agoEven in cases where that might be true - would you still allow me the enjoyment of reading about it? Gee golly, I mean I don't live anywhere near The Boring Company tunnel projects but I still like reading about those... What's your problem?
- Mikeb85 7y agoSamsung is one of the largest (the largest?) display manufacturers in the world that makes, among other things, displays for Apple.
- everdrive 7y agoTwo wrongs don't make a right.
- danem 7y agoWhat's "wrong" about this? No one has provided any evidence of manipulation other than speculation. Maybe people are interested in Samsung's display technology?
- brb3 7y agoI don't know how to provide evidence of manipulation as an outside observer. I was pointing out that it does seem strange. But maybe this is the course of HN nowadays.
- everdrive 7y agoAgreed, sorry -- I was commenting on the logic of the argument rather than the apparent facts of the situation.
- Willamin 7y agoIs the difference that Apple product launches are (not exclusively) intended for consumers whereas the Wall is aimed almost exclusively at large business's lobbies?
- fortran77 7y agoThe website shows two uses "for business" and "for luxury living". So it is intended for home!
- est31 7y ago... and for luxury living. Luxury car launches are covered on the hn frontpage as well, e.g. that weird car whose windows Elon broke... probably increasing its value in the process.
- est31 7y agoThis site has a bay area bias.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't break the site guidelines by insinuating astroturfing or shillage and whatnot. It's nearly always just imagination, and it poisons discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- Mikeb85 7y agoSo? It's a cool product, it's tech related and potentially useful to a decent amount of people.
- bostonvaulter2 7y agoWhy is this flagged? It seems like a very legitimate thought. And now this post is at #63 (on page 3).
- brb3 7y agoTurns out, you can't mention that things might be astroturfing on HN because that's against the rules. So _pointing out_ something fishy is against the rules here. That seems very strange to me.
- zamadatix 7y ago"In comments... Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data. " It's not that you can't make a post discussing astroturfing on HN or that you can't point out astroturfing to someone that can actually do something about it it's that you aren't supposed to just respond to an article that you think it's astroturfing as that helps nobody even if it is or isn't actually astroturfing.