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Olympic Athletes Requested to Cover Apple Logos During Opening Ceremony Because of Samsung Sponsorship [Updated]
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Yes it is indeed but when you sponsor an event like the Olympics that's supposed to represent freedom A lot of people may have have a problem with this
People would be able to recognize it as Apple products? But in Apple's lawsuit against Samsung they claimed that the devices were so similar that they would cause customer confusion. So, which is it?
I say ALL athletes with an Apple device rebel and show off their iPhones big time! Screw Samsung! What are they gonna do? Kick them out of the Olympics? I think not.
Uh. Where on earth did you get the idea that the Olympics represent freedom? You realize that China, and North Korea have Olympians too right?
So what does the Olympics represent when all the countries in the world get together I'm pretty sure one of them is freedom
Here's an idea: Apple gives iPhones and iPads to athletes, covered with huge Samsung stickers. After the games are over, all these athletes go on TV and remove the Samsung stickers, saying to the public that they were not allowed to do so earlier.
Do you really think 99% of the participants give a monkeys about apple or samsung. There going to see if there the best of the best in there field.
AT&T charges $60 / 200MB or $120 / 800MB for international roaming (per month) if you turn on that option for the month.
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I say ALL athletes with an Apple device rebel and show off their iPhones big time! Screw Samsung! What are they gonna do? Kick them out of the Olympics? I think not.
Lol, you're living in your own dreamland if you think professional athletes have any desire to be rebellious on behalf of Apple.
Considering some of the countries that have been involved as participants or hosts, freedom is not a factor except when it comes to the occasional boycott.
The Olympics are mainly about competition and nationalism. That's why they celebrate winners with their country's anthem.
The Olympics are about bringing the best athletes in the world together to compete in the name of their country.
For many years the heated rivalry between communist countries and democratic countries was fueled by the attempt to prove that either freedom (on the democratic side) or control (on the communist side) produced better results.
While there has been improvement in terms of the freedom of people worldwide, if you think most people in the world enjoy any real amount of freedom, you are woefully misinformed.
And as I said many totalitarian regimes will be sending their athletes and not in the name of freedom.
Being the athlete in the above example, I'm not advertising a product, I'm actually using it.
No, I did not. In the example I gave, I'm the athlete using the phone / camera. That's why my mom is watching the TV (not because I'm in the audience with 100,000 people, because she'll see me when I walk out).
The topic of this thread is the "Olympic Athletes Requested" rules (not the audience), if you read it in the context of the topic (and not you assuming I'm getting the topic wrong) it would make much more sense to you.
Specifically I'm drawing upon an example from a few winter olympics ago where one of the US athletes was next to the President (or maybe a former president) and actually handed the phone to the president to say hello to whomever they were on the phone with (mom?).
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I can't speak for other countries I I live in USA for me the Olympics represent freedom.
The problem Samsung has is that they spent billions on this whole Olympic campaign and in London 2012 most people carried iPhones around recording. This meant that apple was possibly getting more adverting than Samsung had for nothing (anyway here in the UK where we have the BBC with no adverting).
I bet you people will still do it though.
Anyway if apple spent all this money on adverting the Olympics, would they do the same?
Yes, they would!
Why don't they become a sponseror as most of the teams will use Apple Macs as there main computer?
I bet you people will still do it though.
Anyway if apple spent all this money on adverting the Olympics, would they do the same?
Yes, they would!
Why don't they become a sponseror as most of the teams will use Apple Macs as there main computer?
Precisely! And how low will they go, after all their other shenanigans like allegedly paying for negative Apple publicity and blogging, and fudging their specs.
Not to mention the spineless attitude of the IOC. I realize they need big heaps of money from deep-pocketed companies, but I find it hard to believe such sponsorships can only be secured by acceding to the most unreasonable or even ludicrous requests. What about the press, who are going to be there in large numbers, with their phones and laptops, and what about the thousands of spectators that are going to be present at each of the events?
The IOC has shown no backbone to establish a line they won't cross, and Samsung has happily dictated their own conditions and ground rules.
This sort of censorship, cover up, master race mentality is what racism and genocide is born of.
CONTROL. They must control the information and the masses. They bought sponsorship, they did not buy control of what device is in the jacket pocket of each athlete and whether or not it might be *GASP* seen.
Whats with the thinking of the people in power positions these days. They think they are all controlling gods or something and little people must conform to their wishes.
Leave people alone, let them be individuals, let them think on their own, keep your hands off.
CONTROL. They must control the information and the masses. They bought sponsorship, they did not buy control of what device is in the jacket pocket of each athlete and whether or not it might be *GASP* seen.
Whats with the thinking of the people in power positions these days. They think they are all controlling gods or something and little people must conform to their wishes.
Leave people alone, let them be individuals, let them think on their own, keep your hands off.
What these games have turned into. It used to be a peaceful come together for amateur athletes from all over the world. Now it is purely commercial. The competing athletes are nowadays the minority - the majority are the highly paid officials. It is really starting to stink.
I admit to not reading the thread.
The irony of some people arguing against this because they hate Samsung is that it doesn't appear any of them have pointed out that if Samsung wants to be associated with being a sponsor and providing money to Russia when the government has shown such hatred towards homosexually, it's their liability. Further - I would almost think Apple - being the company and having the corporate culture they have (and a CEO who is out) would almost welcome this on at least a political level.
The irony of some people arguing against this because they hate Samsung is that it doesn't appear any of them have pointed out that if Samsung wants to be associated with being a sponsor and providing money to Russia when the government has shown such hatred towards homosexually, it's their liability. Further - I would almost think Apple - being the company and having the corporate culture they have (and a CEO who is out) would almost welcome this on at least a political level.
This. It happens all the time but, as usual, when it happens to Apple someone's always on this site crying.
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