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iFixit Removes Galaxy Fold Teardown at Samsung's Request
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Innovation should be in the labs not in the market.
I'm 100% sure Apple has better prototypes under testing in their labs than these bull..crap Samesung units...
Go ahead and buy these crap as you always did with S5 fingerprint scanner, Sammy facelock, Air gestures, Note 7 etc...
Is it really though? No company wants their products splayed open for the world to see, especially products that aren’t even shipping yet. You can’t stop people from tearing apart stuff they buy, but they can certainly take action against leaks like this.
I imagine the engineering team told their managers all about the weaknesses of the current design. What management did after that can't be blamed on the engineers.
Google may not be willing to pay what it takes to get a great panel. If Apple didn’t think LG could manufacture a display to its specs, it wouldn’t have thrown almost $3 billion at them.
My point was that for all anyone knows, the $2.7 billion Apple invested could have been for OLED screens for a folding phone.
There’s been no statement that no one violated any agreements either. I’m guessing iFixit received the unit without strings attached and was in the clear, but the reviewer who provided it probably didn’t read, or ignored, the fine print of their agreement with Samsung.
“The company hasn’t asked for our Fold yet, but we signed a short-term loan agreement and expect to hand our unit back shortly.” I don’t know all the terms of the agreements, but there are agreements, they’re given as loans so Samsung retains ownership, and I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a page of restrictions attached.
Samsung jerked the leash, the reviewer yelped, and iFixit supported their partner. iFixit got most of what they needed already anyway.
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I tend to agree with all you say but I still fault Samsung for putting out a product with such weaknesses as a production unit since it doesn't seem to be able to stand up to careless use. I've seen lots of design for medical devices that looked great on paper, and in use, as long as the medical staff was really careful. A drop off a table or getting wet should not mean a $2000 bill. The last IV pump my hospital bought has an IP rating of 3X so the vendor told us not to get it wet. An IV pump you can't get wet? Uh oh.
I hope Samsung, or someone else is eventually successful with this.
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No. The only question was whether they had the right to crack the phone in the first place. If they had been able to buy a production unit then Samsung would have had nothing to say.
The dream is an iPad mini in an iPhone form factor. You can’t expect to get there in one step, but the goal seems pretty clear. The Fold and the Mate X are early adopter devices. They’ll be low volume while companies figure out how to work through the limitations.
Remember the Challenger disaster. Engineers warned management about the o-rings but it was "damn the torpedoes". Same thing here likely.
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It’s a peculiar world that thinks a company owes us innovation so we can be sold something that replaces an excellent existing product we already own.
To a degree yes they do owe us.... you know how much these phones cost.... if you don’t wow me.... you don’t get paid
While I don't disagree with you at all, I would say there's a difference between "owing" us and Darwinian survival of the fittest.
I agree... but every company has its issue. Apple has... let see not in any order
Bendgate
Antennagate
Crackgate
Touch Disease
Failed mobile me product
Apple Maps in its infancy
Shoot... Apple is being suited rite now for faulty buttons
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I didn't realize it hadn't launched yet. Especially when I saw the headline of their teardown I just assumed this was released. Seeing now that it is not I definitely think they were wrong to post the teardown - they shouldn't be doing that on pre-release devices without checking with the manufacturer, especially when they "discover" a design flaw that the manufacturer (in good faith) may not have realized and wants to take steps to rectify.
Having said all that it still doesn't look good for this thing - for my users I wouldn't go near this thing.
Having said all that it still doesn't look good for this thing - for my users I wouldn't go near this thing.
So you quoted me with your opinion to refute me with something you don’t know yourself? Your insinuation is just as valid as mine, because we don’t have supporting evidence of what the reason really was, as there’s multiple reasons behind the Fold being pulled from ifixit. But thanks for your input.
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I guess I don't see what task is being accomplished or improved upon with this product, but I will move on.
The reason is clear, it's a non released product and this could help competence to spy and get design ideas. (even if they are bad)
