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Samsung Recalls New Galaxy Note7 Due to Exploding Batteries [Updated]
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The slogan practically writes itself: "Samsung Galaxy Note 7 - It will blow your mind. Literally."
I don't. You considder this decision as something rare, and "brave" while I considder this as the only way on how to deal with potentional timebombs.
It's a strange world when people start to think this decision is something special or brave or anything associated with odd while this is just the only thing a company could do. Unless you as a company consider unethical decisions as the norm.
At least they are addressing that it is a problem unlike Apple with screen disease
Very classy company IMO. No blaming the customer or saying you're using it wrong, no BS, no PR, no hiding, just straight up hey we f'ed up and will fully fix the issue. Very refreshing in this day and age of corporate hideouts.
This would have literally made the evening news if it was Apple. 100%. Same any time there's a reported vulnerability, where the many vulnerabilities of Android barely register outside tech circles. Whatever though, the Samsung Defence Squad have got it covered on the relevant channels.
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As opposed to saying "It's your fault the battery exploded"?
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As opposed to saying "It's your fault the battery exploded"?
Steve would never allow this!
Apple's QC has gone downhill!
Tim Cook is the worst CEO!
(reads article again)
Oh, wait...
Apple's QC has gone downhill!
Tim Cook is the worst CEO!
(reads article again)
Oh, wait...
Last week the Samsung guy at my local Best Buy said "this is the hottest smartphone in the US right now."
Guess he was right...lol
Guess he was right...lol
I wish Samsung and other Android makers would stop making batteries that charge fast. Make the batteries replaceable!
It's. An. Exploding. Phone.
It's not 'refreshing'. Any other tech company would immediately do the same thing. They'd have to. The fallout/lawsuit from this sort of thing without immediate action would be unparalleled.
It wasn't identified in their QA process either, so there's that. Whether you could argue that's because they rushed the production/release in time for the iPhone 7 is another matter.
When was the last time that Apple quickly responded to a hardware issue?
@jamezr , to be honest this story was probably started just for the sole reason to poke fun at Samsung and their newest phone. Don't ya think?
Totally. Unknown dark forces have caused Samsung devices to explode in order to laugh at them. This is a thing that totally happened.
I don't know, it maybe would have been better to test more. Oh, but they had to race it out the door to be before Apple.
While the type of response is important, how products are designed and tested is paramount. It could be that Samsung cut corners and/or didn't properly test the devices.
Of course, we won't know unless this goes to court or we hear from a whistleblower, but if it turns out that Samsung was negligent, nobody here would care how Samsung responded.
I believe that's what's called a fallacy of false equation.
Unless you can explain exactly how working towards faster charging is eliminating the possibility of replaceable batteries?
happens to phones now and then, if i recall didn't an iPhone do the same at one point.....
I may dislike many things about Samsung, but I also give props on this. I am Apple fan but Samsung in my opinion have been doing really great recently.