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Galaxy Fold Launch Delayed as Samsung Commits to 'Strengthen the Display Protection' [Updated]
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Do not look at his post history, you really don’t want your question to be answered.
Speaking of the iPad Pro bend. I say we because my wife and I both have done this in the past. We slipped the new iPad Pro 12.9” between our couch and end table. Well we didn’t realize the corner slipped under the couch and when we raised the footrest the couch dipped down. It must have had a 20 degree bend in it.
The screen was intact and functional with the bend. As crazy as I am I tried to bend it back straight. Amazingly it worked. Slight fold on the rear side of the edge but it’s still works as if nothing happened.
That’s a pretty darn tough Samsung screen.
If this was Apple the stock would be tanking and it would be the top trending story on social media.
I agree. The biggest way to get user engagement is anger. Apple is easy to hate since they set themselves up as being more than a tech company. The solution is to not watch those videos but that’s not happening.
Still better than the AirPower launch
“...device needs further improvements that could ensure the best possible user experience.”
Best possible user experience? As in, a $2000 device that lasts more than one week before utterly falling apart?
Understatement of the year.
Best possible user experience? As in, a $2000 device that lasts more than one week before utterly falling apart?
Understatement of the year.
NO THANKS!A better issue than exploding batteries.
Maybe they're just folding it wrong.
How cheap does a device have to be for imperfections to count? Does Apple get let off with bright spots on their iPad screens?
A crease in a folding phone is more necessary than a notch is on a non-folding phone.
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I doubt it. For me a lot of the cost is the unclear usage cases meaning Samsung try to cover all bases. Just accept this should be used open more often than closed so you can reduce the 6 cameras to something more sensible and have a much simpler screen on the outside just for notifications.
The same way Apple did away with the AirPower, it couldn't meet their standards. Rather than release it half assed, they scrapped it. It's why I don't even care if Apple is late to the game sometimes, they don't just release tech just for the sake of being 'first.'
They have their own failures with the keyboards but not like Samsung, which seems to have problems every time they have a major release.
Imagine if Apple had released the AirPower and due to unexpected use (i.e. 3 phones), it overheated and burned down peoples' houses. Apple would recall the product, apologize, settle some lawsuits but the damage would have been done. Nobody would ever trust it again.
Instead, despite having allegedly mass produced AirPower units for sale, an issue that they were dealing with (probably overheating) cropped up again after they thought they had fixed it. So Apple took the embarrassing route. They said they couldn't make the product after all.
I don't think that's the end of it. Given that they got so close to a shipping product, they're probably going to go back to the drawing board without the pressure of a release date and an anxiously awaiting public, and rebuild AirPower from the ground up with what they learned, and possibly not be so ambitious about whichever goals were holding it back, and in a year or two, announce that they cracked it and it'll be shipping today. That's a triumphant comeback, rather than a forever tainted product.
Samsung is doing the opposite. They're going to insist on shipping this thing, expecting people to read instructions and then when Galaxy Folds starting breaking, they'll tell complaining customers that they didn't read the fine print and took off the film or let dirt get under the screen. What they're going to be creating is a ton of new Apple customers.
The Galaxy Fold is built for a sterile lab, not every day use.
Oh well that’s alright then, they should just go ahead and launch it as it is.
People purchasing it should be happy and grateful about Samsung’s acknowledgement....
It's just one of those things that you weren't sure out of the gate if a folding display is going to last long, and secondly, what is the point of a folding display?
What problems did Samsung have with the Note 8, Note 9, S10 etc.?
Apple couldn't even get AirPower to work, released bent iPad Pros, thermally unstable MacBooks with speakers that could destroy themselves and broken keyboards.
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The same point as a folding computer i.e. a laptop. To make higher performance devices more portable.
It's obvious they can. It's a reason they didn't release it.
Wouldn't you rather them do that, than pay $100 that wouldn't work properly, had durability issues or cause fires?
Your AirPower reference only refutes your own statement. Apple didn't release AirPower not just because it was below reviewer/customer standards but also below Apple's own standards. Samsung clearly has a different set of standards.
Your examples are pretty poor and not comparable.
You have reviewers units who are getting bubbles and aren't operating at all from removing that protective shield that doesn't say do not remove.
A keyboard or bent ipad isn't causing your device to be totally inoperable.
