My big concern about this, and has been since day one, that it could lead to an outright ban of lithium ion batteries on planes - phones, laptops, everything banned. Want electronics on your trip? Rent in your destination. I could see it happening...
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Banned From All U.S. Flights
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It certainly is!
Samsung had a duty to notify the CPSC and bring them on board to collaborate and coordinate the situation in the US. Sadly, Samsung did not do that early on thinking they could keep things quite and the problem contained. Shameful behavior.
Fortunately, US television news organizations got wind of the problem opening the evening news with stores about fires and the situation.
Samsung should have brought in CPSC right from the start, as they are supposed to do.
I meant it as in the battery are the bits that catch fire or blow up, not that they are always the fault.
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Is their any proof as to when they did inform them in relation to when they had the first devices catch fire? Has the CPSC claimed Samsung should have informed them earlier?
Number of models of laptops, tablets or mobile phones unilaterally banned from air travel prior to the Note 7: 0
Not happening. It's an exception.
Yes, batteries are flammable, that's nothing new. Seems like you were trying to justify Samsung selling a phone that randomly catches fire by saying that batteries are the problem.
Pre-announcing a recall is not uncommon for companies who want it known that they're doing it voluntarily.
Apple themselves did the same thing earlier this year when they recalled 800,000+ travel adapter kits because of a shock hazard. Well, except they took much longer to acknowledge there was a problem:
So the one week it took for Samsung to acknowledge the problem from the first reports of fire, and then the two weeks between Samsung's recall announcement on 2016/09/02 and the CPSC recall announcement on 016/09/15 (that's one week less than Apple), don't seem so bad in comparison.
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I meant childish (always thought that is what petulance was) but schadenfreude definitely applies. I don't understand why anyone would celebrate a companies failures. How does it affect them?
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Probably... maybe? I donno. I'm just here to rant about the stupid things apple does and hopefully they fix things, specifically OS X.
Do you think that Samsung did overreact with the complete cancellation of the Note 7? (Which would reflect a very poor decision, business-wise, had it not been a necessary step)
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I don't know either, strangely enough it's a very common behaviour on message boards, especially when they are dedicated to a specific platform (minus windows mobile, maybe, those guys seem to be realistic about the desolate state of their preferred platform ;-) ).
Why would you want to? Why would waste any time wondering about random post on the internet?
The better question is why does it matter to you?
You're one of these people. So instead of dodging the question; WHY do you care if Samsung fails or succeeds?
OK
Not clear what you're getting at here.
In any event, you stated you don't understand something in regard to why people would take a certain action, namely celebration of companies failure.
Why even think about it? Who cares why they celebrate a companies failure.
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About time we got a new ad, remember the one with 'iPhone' users lined up charging there phones. I want one with Note 7 users lined up watching the Apple users pass them to get onto their flight.
The funny thing about the wallhuggers ad is that Samsung made their batteries fixed (as in glued in, not as in "repaired". Something which should be obvious in the light of recent events) a year or two later. After their jab at the keynote about the headphone port, expect them to "rethink" that particular piece of functionality in another year or so.
The stupidest part is, all jokes aside, I don't think Samsung even need to copy Apple anymore. They have their own "voice". It seems like a reflex with them.
Last I heard, they couldn't tell definitively what the cause was. That seems to make sense given the fact that the some of the replacement devices exhibited the same behavior. They will have to figure it out and release details about what they're doing to prevent the same fate for future devices. If they don't do that, their smartphone business may well follow suit and go up in flames.
It really is that serious I think. However a lot of people seem to be calling for fast answers, fast release of a new device, fast whatever and I think that's the worst thing they could do. They should, (imo as an armchair CEO
) take their time and find the right answers and the right design. Until shown otherwise it feels like they might be going for the "if we just keep quiet people will forget about it" approach and I feel like that will not end well.
How about one showing boxing and unboxing?
Does the Note 7 return box come with insured mail? You never know when one of those returned devices might maim a UPS delivery guy.
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This is Samesung.
They ain't gonna wait that long.
Their copiers run 24\7\365.
Samsung also contemplating removal of the headphone jack in future products
Nah
This is Samesung.
They ain't gonna wait that long.
Their copiers run 24\7\365.
Samsung also contemplating removal of the headphone jack in future products
I guess the better question is - how does our celebrating affect you? It certainly affected you enough to make you want to highlight that fact on a Samsung post on Engadget. So what is it?
"Oh, I don't laugh at Samsung's misstep. That somehow makes me a way better person than the other people here who did."
It seems like you are saying all these things to insult and denigrate the forum posters here while allowing yourself to take the moral high ground.
And maybe you are the better person, in which case you might want to consider leaving this place to us "degenerates" if you feel you are getting too good for this place.
As much as I like the concept, Apple should take the high road on this type of issue. Kicking someone when they are down, not a good strategy in the long run. Samsung was poking fun at an Apple choice not a problem.
Someone will likely point out the "Mac vs PC" ads or Bertrand Serlet's jab at Vista during the Leopard(?) keynote but those are very much different. In the former case they were generally light hearted jabs at problems that plagued Windows of the era and in the latter a mildly mean spirited (but hilariously funny and entirely deserved imo) jab at Micorosoft's issues delivering Vista and it's eventual "inspiration" from Tiger.
Side note: I miss Bertrand Serlet and I miss 10.4.11 (the latter entirely for reasons of nostalgia)
Is that a real Ad ? I've never seen it.Oh come on. If this was Apple Samsung and others would already have commercials out. Remember this?
Funny thing the iPhone is praying the note "please don't explode"
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Apple fans should enjoy while they can.Samsung is pulling out all the stops next year and I can almost feel it that a gamechanging hardware is on the horizon.Buckle up amigos.We are in for one hell of a year next year