OnePlus. The Chinese manufacturer is known worldwide for cheap phones that copy Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and other Chinese manufacturers, but they are sought after because they are surprisingly cheap. Because it doesn't have good ideas, the OnePlus company thought to copy from Apple an idea that proved to be very popular all over the world, and which in the end was transformed by the Apple company into a controversial contest.
OnePlus. The Chinese thought of copying the campaign Shot on iPhone and turn it into Shot on OnePlus, creating a contest designed to award the Indians who took the best pictures with the Chinese's phones. The first mistake was copying Apple, but the second, and the biggest, was the awarding of an Indian who stole another person's photo from Instagram and registered it in the contest as his own, with OnePlus establishing that the photo is good enough to be awarded.
OnePlus copied Shot on iPhone and awarded a copied photo
OnePlus. The Indian who copied another person's Instagram photo modified his EXIF data, because the original photo was taken with a Canon DSLR, but he modified it as stupidly as he thinks. The Indian entered in the EXIF data of the picture the fact that it had been recorded in May 2017 with a OnePlus phone that was launched in 2018, but no one from the Chinese company thought to check if the picture in question was taken by the awardee, or at least with a mobile phone.
In September 2018, the Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus announced the winners of a #ShotonOnePlus photo contest in India to celebrate the best photos captured by its phone cameras. One of the winning shots was a shock to photographer Aman Bhargava: it looked strangely similar to a photo he had captured two years earlier on his Canon DSLR. Submitted by photographer Pratyush Yadav, the photo looked like a slightly cropped version of a photo Bhargava captured in 2016 and posted to Instagram on May 22, 2017.
OnePlus. I don't know what expectations the world had from this Chinese company, because in general the Chinese don't really care about their customers or the image of the company they run. In the case of OnePlus, the level of interest was equal to zero, and this was seen by the fact that they awarded a prize to a picture that was taken with a completely different type of device than the one that was supposed to, and such a good idea of Apple's ridiculed by the Chinese.
