After comparing Apple to Hitler, Chinese company reveals Le Superphone
Two weeks ago, to build buzz for the Android smartphone it announced today, Chinese tech company Letv turned to Hitler. A poster teasing the phone shows Hitler giving the Nazi salute while wearing an armband marked with the Apple logo. Apple, explained Letv CEO Jia Yueting in an accompanying post on Weibo, is an “arrogant regime” that has embraced “tyranny.”
Jia quickly apologized for invoking Nazis to shill electronics, saying he meant only that “that open-ended technology ecosystems are more beneficial to consumers.” More beneficial than, say, Apple and Hitler, which respectively adopted policies requiring in-house vetting of mobile apps (in Apple’s case) and the systematic genocide of millions (in Hitler’s). As a brand disaster Jia’s…
Source:: The Verge
