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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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Doubt that. Samsung will do just fine.
My personal bigger concern: is this an issue that is going to grow across all brands? Now seeing articles on iPhone 7/7+ going up in smoke. Have batteries reached the limit in current design?
I'll be interested in the actual root cause of the issue.
Your phone works just fine? ahhhh!!! jajajaj! with iOS 6? iOS 7? I've sell my 4s two years ago! and my iPhone 5 is a bit slow running iOS 10.0.2
Unimpressive? really? When you'll buy the iPhone 7 you may ziiiiiip over the screen!
Yes, it's well known. China's ATL is Apple's main supplier, but Apple doesn't single-source nearly anything.
Just like they use LG & Samsungs LCD panels, they might have used Samsung-SDI batteries in some devices.
Why else put that manufacturer in the current list of suppliers ?
Maybe someone else knows more details.
My guess is, it's a combination of demand for higher capacity, crammed into ever smaller spaces and charged at turbo speeds.
Something's gotta give.
There's also been reports of dentrite crystals forming during charge cycles that penetrate the membrane causing short circuits.
Someone's not paying attention. Samsung itself has already made that announcement. The Death Note is deader than fried chicken.
And dropping the 'Note' name too.
Corporate damage control can be expensive. Anyone remember the Alaska Air MD-83 crash in the Pacific off California? They were found to have performed shoddy maintenance on their fleet of the older planes, and the grease on the jack screw caused mechanical failure. Alaska Air doesn't fly MD's anymore. Far as I know, they are all Boeing now. The cost? Probably really expensive, but the public's attention on their MD model mess made it necessary. Now, like Southwest, they are an all 737 fleet.
So, yes, Samsung will probably have to think up a new name.
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There will always be a market for the alternative. For whatever reason, people will always choose the competition, and it would take a team of sociologists to find out why.
Some, I've heard, think that the iPhone is 'too good for them', some hear it's 'incompatible' (yeah, really, some think it's too complicated, some think because Tim Cook is gay, the iPhone is too, some just hear that they should hate Apple and they won't even buy an iPod. I knew someone like that. They had a cheap Sandisk player, and constantly complained about it. Only good thing was that it was expandable, but other than that, it was junk, but they clung to it like a lamp post. Wouldn't give it up for anything. You can make a better product, but you can't lead some people to it and get hem to buy it, no matter how much better it is...
That has got to be very concerning. I assume you are turning it in. Until you do, you might want to leave it in your sink or some other fire proof location while you are asleep and charge it only when you are able to keep an eye on it.
Side note, fast charging seems an inherently risky feature though I can see why Android's with their large batteries might see enough value add to include it. Folks complain about iPhones not having that feature. But putting an iPhone on the charger for 20 minutes gives it at least a full night's worth of charge.
I feel your reply is "disingenuous". Hindsight is always 20/20 and we can wax poetic about this, say "they should have..." but we don't know. Samsung's response was very likely done based on the best info they had or could replicate at the time. Having been involved in a couple of product debacles like this; one on the recall side, one on the aftermath side; it is amazing when you look back at the things that were missed - you are in panic mode trying to solve / address - and the fact it will take a while to discover what the real root cause was.
Personally, I feel Samsung did this rather quickly. Time, was not on their side.
JMO YMMV
+1, as I would have favored an iPhone (7, 6SS, 6SSS, whatever number) to be 2 mm thicker, with a super battery, an ordinary 3.5" audioport, OLED and wireless charging. 2016 seems so much lost in taptic nonsense, lack of ports, and smoke.
Ultimately doesn't this have to be an engineering mistake though. If it was a software failure then an update could have been shipped. Engineers are conservative. And maybe there is a group in Samsung who were shouted down or silenced. But there has to be some engineers who greenlighted this design. And obviously the engineers as a group could not correctly identify the problem, because they announced to the world, mission accomplished with the replacement Notes.
Wall Street remains hung up on Android market share and high number of sales of even the cheapest smartphones to throw in Apple's face despite one iPhone could equal the combined selling price of about four low-cost Samsung smartphones. Samsung certainly doesn't sell three or four times as many smartphones as Apple. Wall Street's constant focus on smartphone market share doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense when Apple is raking in so much smartphone profit. As though it's going to kill Apple not to sell as many iPhones in India as Samsung does. How come Wall Street doesn't look at Porsche 911 sales that way? Is Porsche going out of business because they can't sell as many Porsche 911s as Toyota can sell Camrys in India?
Because it's cool to hate on Apple. Any article with "Apple" in the title draws the clicks and the views, all the more if it's an article foretelling the imminent doom of Apple.
You get used to it after the first couple of years of self-styled analysts getting it wrong. It's getting humorous even.
That's what I get for selling this summer ahead of uncertainty surrounding the headphone jack removal and the election. Oh well—you win some you lose some. Nobody could have predicted this, but I have said numerous times over the years that karma will eventually catch up with Samsung. I'll buy the next time AAPL dips a bit and hopefully ride the 2017 redesign mega upgrade cycle, which is made even stronger by the overwhelmingly negative connotation the Samsung brand now invokes.
Anyone buying in now? I'm wondering how high it could go in the short term. If the election weren't coming up I'd probably jump on the bandwagon as well.
Anyone buying in now? I'm wondering how high it could go in the short term. If the election weren't coming up I'd probably jump on the bandwagon as well.
Well, interestingly it seemed to affect only devices with the Snapdragon 820 processor. None of the ones shipped in Europe (those all have the Exynos processors) burned. But I guess that doesn't really matter anymore since Samsung has thrown in the towel - I guess they've realized that the model name was doomed.
For issues like this, it is always the problem. As an engineer I want and need the time for my team to properly establish the issue (not the obvious result), the root cause, and an interim solution, while working on a permanent fix. Middle management, pressured by upper management, pressured by investors, wants it NOW! Rush Rush Rush Now Now Now is the mantra.
Maybe they should ask Chipotle how to gain consumer trust back and see how it is going..
