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Apple Shares Hit New High for 2016 as Samsung Considers Scrapping Note 7 [Update: Note 7 Officially Discontinued]
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Although iPhone and maybe Pixel will benefit from this, I still think this debacle is a bummer. The Note 7 was a gorgeous piece of hardware. Flawed, of course, it was the first android phone in years that caught my attention and made me hesitate before getting another iPhone. Competition is good for all of us.
Taking off my competition is good hat, this also exposes some severe issues with Samsung management. The Note 7 was a disaster from beginning to catastrophic end. This has to hurt the Samsung brand and will likely have lasting impacts. Cautious, incremental Apple looks pretty good right now.
Taking off my competition is good hat, this also exposes some severe issues with Samsung management. The Note 7 was a disaster from beginning to catastrophic end. This has to hurt the Samsung brand and will likely have lasting impacts. Cautious, incremental Apple looks pretty good right now.
For the time being I believe Samsung is preoccupied with fending off Amazon's trademark infringement suit
Seems like moving goal posts, more false equivalency and deflections.
Seems like this post requires a big, IMO, because I have a different viewpoint of the iPhone 7 as does anandtech as maybe some other people do.
Apple doesn't need the media IMO, as the brand has a strong following...like Samsung. I don't know what people read or not, but I make my mind up from the keynote.(which again most people don't look at) posters at MR essentially put everything under a microscope.
Please tell us why the iPhone 7 is flawed?
Pixel does not seem to be available in large quantity at the moment. IT is also only available from a restricted number of outlets (Carphone Wharehouse in the UK).
So far, I don't see it being able to take up the slack from the Note 7 let alone the supposedly flawed iPhone 7.
You'd have to compare 'new iPhone users' to make it valid. Not just overall sales.
yeah that links to the one article for the iPhone 7. Looks like the 6+ has 2 cases now?
Compared to what, though, new Google phone users? Some other previous failed phone's users?
I wonder what the root cause of this is. It's not like lithium-ion batteries are new technology. Catastrophic failures of battery containment are pretty unusual. Even the old Powerbook batteries just swelled up. There doesn't seem to be any protrusions in the iFixit teardown, although they did note the battery area was ultra-fortified.
Maybe there's some kind of interference with the wireless charging circuit?
Maybe they had thermal problems due to the waterproofing?
Maybe making the battery compartment ultra-strong was a mistake, because if the battery did swell there was nowhere for it to go?
I hope someone eventually does a post-mortem on this.
Maybe there's some kind of interference with the wireless charging circuit?
Maybe they had thermal problems due to the waterproofing?
Maybe making the battery compartment ultra-strong was a mistake, because if the battery did swell there was nowhere for it to go?
I hope someone eventually does a post-mortem on this.
Yep. Just today one of my customers asked me, "Do you have a Samsung, because I heard on the news they are catching on fire". I explained to her that it was only one model but I still don't think she would ever get a Samsung. This will do a lot of damage.I think this will hurt the brand more than people realise. Normal people/consumers only sees the name Samsung when reading or hearing about burning phones, product names like Note 7 may not mean much to them. So when times comes to purchase a phone they will most likely choose something that is not an Samsung phone, for historic reasons.
The most important lesson to take away from this is to never rush things, or you may get burned
Also reported to be continue being sold to the US Military as a thinner and smaller alternative to bulky explosives.
Well... if you're like me (and I know I am), the way I sense it is we're all celebrating justice & the karma smack-down deserved Samsung with its rank corporate values & slavish rip-off of Apple for almost a decade.
But agreed. I suppose markets are a bit like batteries, its negative side dependent on the positive side...
...but it's just sooo sweet finally seeing the negative side just melt-down & explode...
heh heh... (...better luck next year Samsung)
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I thought the same thing as you.But now that I actually have the 7 Plus in hand after upgrading from an iPhone 6 it was well worth the upgrade imo.The back looks cleaner and the dual cameras are awesome in a way although not quite the best.Phone destroys my iPhone 6 in speed.Also the haptic feedback throughout the OS makes it seem as though everything has a weight.The NC has a distinctive thump.Scrolling through the dates has a feeling like rolling real beads.Matte black looks good too and battery life is a night and day difference from my 6.A very nice upgrade imp
I said the same in the alternatives forum
The average customer don’t see note 7…they see Samsung phones! Which is why it’s going to be so tough for Samsung to recover from this.