Originally posted by clackers For all the hype a year ago about the NX-1 - it was quite the media darling, helped I suppose by dollars from the Samsung advertising money pit - almost no one seems to own one.
The problem is that Samsung manufacture mediocre products which they hype up using a massive marketing budget.
I tend to find Samsung over-sells their products based on unrealistic and inflated specs, and the actual real world experience tends to be disappointing.
And their marketing dept seems to have shady ethics - paying bloggers to write favourable reviews of their products and slamming their competitors (they were prosecuted and fined in Taiwan), cheating on benchmarks, and all the weird marketing blunders and poor behaviour ... for products that don't work (the infamous 840 EVO SSD fiasco), or loaded with crapware and bloatware (phones and computers), or never updated 6 months after purchase (again, phones and computers - they even disabled Windows Update!), and now washing machines that overheat and catch fire ...
Samsung was a media darling a few years ago, but they have fallen out of favour these days as too many consumers have been burnt.
When the NX1 was announced I said I won't even consider it until I see real world results. Now that the real world results are published, I am not surprised they are disappointing. And where are all those lenses they promised?