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Samsung's Battery Crisis Began With Rumors of a 'Dull' iPhone
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For the record, some of my posts are hopefully made in ironic jest with tongue firmly in cheek.
I assure you we're a large Apple household here with many happy converts from Samsung/HTC (my mother being the most recent to switch from her Samsung gear, despite her affinity for made-in-Korea crapware, and my brother is dropping the Note 7 entirely for an iPhone 7 because the exchange process has been a mess). Apple user since 1998 myself.
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The curse of the grammer nazi. You correct a single word and you get it wrong.
According to my trustworthy old dictionary: misspell, verb, past and past participle misspelt or misspelled.
(And I know how to spell "grammar", but I very much prefer to spell grammer nazi the way I do).
Your trying to deflect the problem back to Apple, than try to rationalize the problems with Samsung. I will stick with the boring iPhone if its more reliable than Samsung's exploding phones that also fail in water proof tests.
I think this incident is also quite enlightening in that it lets us have a look at the typical Samsung sales figures, something they have traditionally been very shy to reveal.
From the reports, it seems that they sold about 1 million Note 7 phones over 2 weeks. The iPhone hits that number in a little over a day. Samsung clearly doesn't move as many premium handsets as they would like us to believe.
From the reports, it seems that they sold about 1 million Note 7 phones over 2 weeks. The iPhone hits that number in a little over a day. Samsung clearly doesn't move as many premium handsets as they would like us to believe.
People also forget that MR is an international site. I have never once in my life said or written misspelt (now I can't say that anymore). I'm sure that it is common in the UK, but in the Western US it's generally not used.
The Note line has never been a "big seller". The S7 and S7 Edge are more for the mainstream Samsung buyer.
I like it for the pen and the curved edge of the screen is way more subtle than the S7 Edge.
They gave me one of those as a loaner and I hated it. Accidental touches are horrid.
Got my replacement Note 7 this morning. So far no fireballs.
As you can see in my signature, I like anything I can geek out on.. Apple, Android, whatever.
Good lord I'm too tired to find them all again. There was some sort of charging thingy problem with the laptops. People were getting shocked or zapped or something. It's all on this forum somewhere.
I just got my replacement Note 7 earlier this evening. I will be setting it up for the next two days as I dislike restoring from backups and prefer to start fresh each time. I'm charging my Note 7 now. If you all don't hear from me again you'll know the replacements were not successful.
AT&T had exactly one IPhone 7 left when I asked. It was a 256 GB gold. I had my 6S Plus with me. That's the phone I can trade in on my original line. It was tempting but if I'm going to do the trade I will do it later and see if I can get silver or black. The guy who was handling my Note 7 replacement said the iPhones were coming in regularly but jet black is definitely sold out until November. He did not specify which sizes. Regular matte black is coming in, still. This was our local corporate AT&T store.
Sorry for rambling. I've been up since very early and have a hectic morning ahead. See you all later. I'm going to read a few more pages and zonk out.
It's all on this forum somewhere... right...
Don't open laptops if you don't know what you're doing.
Someone we know had there house burn down thanks to an Apple iPad charger.
This so called report is nothing more then click bait at this present time. It would need to be confirmed by a lot more sources before I would believe it.
Sorrry you don't know what you're talking about - this is a big jump in performance especially - just like the 6s outperformed a newer samsung (recent thread about it here).
Here, an article about the 7 and 7+ display:
http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone7_ShootOut_1.htm
Yes it's an LCD display (we'll see how Apple does with amoled next year) but not a minor bump.
Wait until anantech (who have just published a thorough review of the HTC 10) and others test the 7 in detail.
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Seriously though, if you were the parent of that child who had one explode in his hands, could you fathom even buying a Samsung refrigerator?
Sigh...don't open laptops...say what? Whatever. It was a late night and I can see you just want to pick a fight. I was referencing previous discussions on this forum that other people had links and all to. I'm not looking that stuff up just to appease you. I don't even remember what I was talking about to begin with. I'm reading so many different threads right now. You're welcome to take my comments at face value or forum search or whatever. If you don't want to and just want to hear that you are right and King of the Internet, fine, you are right and King of the Internet. Have a good reign.
I just got everyone off to school and work and now I'm going to finally sit down and have my coffee before I murder someone. I'm supposed to get my caffeine first thing but I knew it was going to be one of those mornings. School picture day mornings always are.
Conclusion: Apple is as bad as Samasung in the health and safety department of their devices because you opened a laptop without knowing what you're doing and got zapped.
No one said anything about "opening laptops"--that's your assumption. You're also assuming that GrumpyMom opened her laptop when there's nothing to indicate that. And yet another in your conclusion. I'd suggest not confusing your own thoughts for reality.
There is a thread here, going back a few years, about people getting zapped from touching their laptops. I don't know how it worked out or what the issue was, but it's a thing that happened.
I never opened any Apple laptop. I haven't gotten zapped. Huh what are you talking about?
I have read on this forum in different threads people making reference to Apple having some sort of issues with defective parts that were not safe and could shock people. Other people told their own stories about trying to get refunds or getting a recall effort under way. They were making these remarks in conjunction with discussion about the Note 7s. I was making a reference to those remarks. Whatever happened, happened before I got my MacBook Pro, which was about four years ago.
I am not trying to slam Apple. I'm trying to be fair to both companies, not because I care about either company in particular, but out of respect for forum members who consider themselves fans, for whatever reason, of those companies. I'm not here to pick fights or stir up crap. Granted, my posts when I'm tired are not the best quality, but I try to be respectful of other people's feelings here.
I like Apple products and have enthusiastically used them for over a decade now. My husband's history with Apple goes back to his beautiful Apple IIe that is still set up and running in his office. But I'm realistic enough to know that no company is perfect and when it comes to electronics, no consumer can take anything for granted. No brand name is entirely safe and we all have to take certain precautions. Apple has a better track record than most, but they have not been immune to some safety issues of their own according to other members of this forum who remember some instances in particular. I don't remember these myself because I was not affected by them. I hope that clears it up.
I agreed with everything you wrote, until you tried to equate Samsung to Apple. Maybe, you personally haven't been screwed royally by their customer service, but I have and countless others have as well (e.g. Samsung TV capacitor class action lawsuit). Samsung's MO is to sell as many things as possible, and then try to support as few of those customers as possible, and push back until they are sued into servicing their customers via class action lawsuits.
My experience with Apple customer service is the antithesis of my experience with Samsucks customers service. Apple has repaired my out of warranty Macbook Pro and replaced iPhones that were also out of warranty. Samsung barely even takes care of you when you are still under warranty. Unless they are forced to.
If you have a specific case use for the Note 7 then that's fine, but don't discount what a crappy company Samsung is, and still continues to be, as evidenced by the most recent fiasco, and certainly don't try to imply that customer service wise Samsung and Apple are on par. That is just plain false.