So 8 potential deaths and that's assuming they weren't driving with a car full of children at the time is considered acceptable in your sick world!!!
What the hell is wrong with you man!!!
100% safety is an illusion.
The one you reply to seems to have a better view on this world as you do, as bad as it is, **** happens.
Firstly, poor analogy. Someone shooting someone else is a deliberate action with intent to harm/kill and other then self defence there is no acceptable argument of mitigation. Moreover, its erroneous to draw parallels between a phone and a hand gun and as such its an inappropriate analogy laced with emotion rather then genuinely aimed at a reasonable comparison.
Even if a handgun went off accidentally and killed someone, many people would question why the bearer of the firearm was carrying one in the first place. No one is reasonably going to question why someone was carrying a phone or a manufacturer chose to use a Li-ion battery in a consumer device.
WRT point scoring, it strikes me that it is you that views the world in a manner that is not normal. You seem to have taken umbrage because someone has perfectly reasonably drawn a distinction between two similar types of failure. And your subsequent post reveals that it is because you can't stand that someone may possibly have attempted to point score against a brand you appear to want to protect from criticism like it is your child.
If you really believed as per your original post that its sick 8 people could possibly have come in harms way, it should follow you would pour even more scorn on a product that has had a greater level of failure and was forced to pull the product. Instead you focussed on the lesser failure.
It's perfectly reasonable to draw the distinction between a small number of reported failures in proportion to the huge number of devices shipped, against the larger number of failures in proportion to a much smaller number of devices shipped and in a smaller time frame.
What you seem to be unable to grasp is that some Li-ion batteries can fail and catch fire and the more you ship the more likely it is someone will experience such a failure. Its an inherent risk albeit a very small one. Samsung appeared to have gone significantly past that point of acceptability and were forced to recall and cancel the product.
I don't think that reflects badly on Samsung. I think that reflects well on them that they acted promptly and despite the fact it caused significant damage to their business. Many unscrupulous businesses may well have stuck their head in the sand and left their customers at risk for much longer. Moreover, they have a track record of shipping lots of products without any such safety concerns and so one should understand sometimes these things happen and the more important thing is how the manufacturer responds. But at this point the two incidents are not comparable, wether you take it as point scoring or not.
Well said.