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Olympic Athletes Requested to Cover Apple Logos During Opening Ceremony Because of Samsung Sponsorship [Updated]
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Read the macrumors summary of the article and you will learn there is such a rule and it is named rule 40.
I find it funny a lot of the people upset about this rule are also so sure in other threads that iOS devices with 1gb of ram is fine and mobile safari never crashes, never reloads tabs and is snappier with ever new iOS beta release.
Right, they are Apple products. The post I replied to stated that he wouldn't have anything to do with Samsung, to the point of not watching the Olympics. Apple products contain Samsung produced parts. And you don't see the hypocrisy there? So please explain what way I am trying to spin it. In simple terms, said user hates Samsung, but it's ok if they produce parts for Apple.
This is nothing new. Companies and the IOC go to great lengths to "protect" the companies investments in advertising to prevent others from showcasing their products. Companies often try to buy space for adds "honoring the athletes" so they can get their brand out without paying the IOC.
Oddly enough, the iPhone shape and interface is easily recognized so people will know what it is even without an Apple logo.
Oddly enough, the iPhone shape and interface is easily recognized so people will know what it is even without an Apple logo.
And that is what the Olympics is about, the athletes, not the commercialism.
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If the rule is enforced by the IOC, it should be all non sponsors. It has nothing to do with Apple.
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i kinda thought sponsorship was having your advertisements o TV during the games, or buying uniforms. or buying equipment for a certain sport. but this seems to be a little much. some of the athletes life needs to be their life. so if they do a casual interview and are wearing a reebok jacket they can be kicked out of the games if nike is the uniform sponsor??? seems like these mostly amateur athletes are owned by clothing and equipment companies. shame.
I still think a small quiz based on the article (and maybe even the source) should be required to comment
You're absolutely right. Another dent.
How many dents can it take?
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They should just stop athletes filming stuff during the opening ceremony full stop, no matter what device they are using.
It always looks daft when you see people participating in a major event like this and loads of them are experiencing it through the screen on their phone or even worse tablet.
I have been to concerts and seen people watch the whole thing through their iPad screen whilst they were recording it, same for weddings and other significant events, watch any crowd these days at such events and half of them will have phones or tablets in front of their faces.
Majority of the footage taken will probably never make it off the device and they are spoiling their own experience of the event by experiencing it in this way.
I photograph weddings professionally and I look back at some of the entrance of the brides photos (a big event for most brides) in recent years and they just make me feel sad ... I have photographs where it looks like half the congregation are obscured with phones and tablets, in some cases even key people like the mother of the bride.
Phones are great for filing short clips of stuff where there is no professional coverage taking place but for some events you really should just keep your phone in your pocket and experience it to the full.
It always looks daft when you see people participating in a major event like this and loads of them are experiencing it through the screen on their phone or even worse tablet.
I have been to concerts and seen people watch the whole thing through their iPad screen whilst they were recording it, same for weddings and other significant events, watch any crowd these days at such events and half of them will have phones or tablets in front of their faces.
Majority of the footage taken will probably never make it off the device and they are spoiling their own experience of the event by experiencing it in this way.
I photograph weddings professionally and I look back at some of the entrance of the brides photos (a big event for most brides) in recent years and they just make me feel sad ... I have photographs where it looks like half the congregation are obscured with phones and tablets, in some cases even key people like the mother of the bride.
Phones are great for filing short clips of stuff where there is no professional coverage taking place but for some events you really should just keep your phone in your pocket and experience it to the full.
I'm with Samsung on this..somewhat.
No one should blatantly promote another brand that competes with a sponsor, Samsung or not.
However, as an athlete, if I answer my iPhone and the TV network pans across and sees me talking on it, that should not disqualify/financially penalize me.
Now if I'm being interviewed, I would not say, "I love my iPhone" as that doesn't relate to the game at all.
Hope that makes sense.
No one should blatantly promote another brand that competes with a sponsor, Samsung or not.
However, as an athlete, if I answer my iPhone and the TV network pans across and sees me talking on it, that should not disqualify/financially penalize me.
Now if I'm being interviewed, I would not say, "I love my iPhone" as that doesn't relate to the game at all.
Hope that makes sense.
And yet he got an upvote?
Just curious if you read the article or if you're just making a general comment. Rule 40 and the article is about the parade - not any other aspect of the games, interviews, etc.
You're right, instead of just being vocal the people in thread would screaming in outrage against Apple. I don't know why you would think people would support Apple doing this? Every time Apple does something slightly in a negative manner people on MR are just begging to blast Apple so maybe it's you that needs to come to reality rather than calling people Fanboys. It's really too bad that MR has taken away the vote down button. Why oh Why?
I speak from experience reading these forums over the past 11 years. Try it for yourself. Find a thread, say, about Apple suing someone. "Go Apple! Take them down! Kill the enemy! raaaawrrrr!" Then find one about someone sueing Apple. "Bully! Unfair! Such a stupid, petty, lawsuit! Leave Apple alone!"
You're right, not everyone does this, but there are enough people who seem to blindly advocate Apple in any situation and dump on any non-Apple company that I don't think I'm exaggerating at all.
Yes we miss some of the well known Samsung/Google defenders of the forum
I don't like Samsung phones and yes I do like Android but I also like using iOS and my current device is an iPhone 5S (See my blog for proof) but I did not post here to defend Samsung or to attack Apple. I posted here to call out the ignorance of many people here and their hate/love for a corporation.
Guess what, if you did that the IOC would tell you that you're not welcome to compete in their games. That's how it works.
If Samsung were to walk up to me and hand me a $650 phone for the low, low price of nothing, with the only catch being that I have to use it in lieu of my normal phone during the 2-3 hours of the opening ceremony, would I take it?
Hell yeah, I'd take it. Comeon. Free phone.
Overreaction of the year. Seriously, I don't get the big deal. Ignore the Samsung logos and enjoy the Olympics. It isn't hard. Do you boycott TV stations because they advertise the wrong products for you?
0/10.
I gave up being interested in the Olympics pretty much since Sydney and certainly since Beijing when China used it as a tool for state and military propaganda. Their opening ceremony was reminiscent of the Nazi Games of Berlin in 1936. The IOC is now a joke.
And the Winter version is pretty ridiculous. It's just full of fairly pointless events like sliding down an artificially built tube in a heavy coffin on skates, doing silly flips in the air on skis and skiing off massive jumps for no good reason. Unlike purer sports like running, athletics and swimming, most of the winter sports are only "played" by rich white people that can afford to travel and live in ski resorts learning their silly games.
That Rule 80 doesn't stand up to logic or reasoning. There were many successful Games long before the world became so corporatised.
And the Winter version is pretty ridiculous. It's just full of fairly pointless events like sliding down an artificially built tube in a heavy coffin on skates, doing silly flips in the air on skis and skiing off massive jumps for no good reason. Unlike purer sports like running, athletics and swimming, most of the winter sports are only "played" by rich white people that can afford to travel and live in ski resorts learning their silly games.
That Rule 80 doesn't stand up to logic or reasoning. There were many successful Games long before the world became so corporatised.
And if a large number of athletes did that, would there be any games?
To be perfectly clear: Laws should always be observed. Rules are up for negotiation. Don't confuse the two.
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