Samsung Officially Cancels the Galaxy Note 7

[The Fukin Prophecy]

A niche minority (rooters) of a smaller community (those who choose to take the chance of keeping a phone everyone from Samsung to the carriers has said turn in) is the last set of customers Samsung would care about pleasing. There's no goodwill that's going to come out of throwing this group a bone that will outweigh the alternative of even more media coverage of additional exploding devices.

A million Note buyers isn't a niche...

If even a quarter of those buyers refuse to ever buy another Samsung phone because of this debacle that's a big loss for corporate...

Any phone that explodes after a cut off is on the user that elected to keep the device, not on Samsung...The media microscope cycle would be long off Samsung by then...The only way a phone catching on fire would make the news is if someone got killed because nothing else would be news worthy...

 

[Golayitdown]

A million Note buyers isn't a niche...

If even a quarter of those buyers refuse to ever buy another Samsung phone because of this debacle that's a big loss for corporate...

A million note buyers isn't the niche number, the people who are going to try to keep the phone AND will use an unlocked bootloader are.

You think the people won't buy another Samsung phone would do it because of a locked bootloader in an unsupported device or because the device in question was exploding in the first place?

 

[Golayitdown]

Any phone that explodes after a cut off is on the user that elected to keep the device, not on Samsung...The media microscope cycle would be long off Samsung by then...The only way a phone catching on fire would make the news is if someone got killed because nothing else would be news worthy...

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The only take away from that hypothetical news report is that the Samsung devices are still exploding. Nobody's going to know or care about the guy who actually owned the phone. All I'm saying is it isn't worth for them to keep supporting these devices with that risk out there.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

A million note buyers isn't the niche number, the people who are going to try to keep the phone AND will use an unlocked bootloader are.

And you know this how?

If we are to go by Note replacement return numbers you are dead wrong...Less than 60% of Note7 users returned their phones...and that 60% is between the US and Korea...they shipped 2.5 million phones world wide...

https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...ercent-us-korea-slow?client=ms-android-att-us

 

[Golayitdown]

And you know this how?

If we are to go by Note replacement return numbers you are dead wrong...Less than 60% of Note7 users returned their phones...and that 60% is between the US and Korea...they shipped 2.5 million phones world wide...

https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...ercent-us-korea-slow?client=ms-android-att-us

You're focusing on the entire user base whereas I'm focusing only on the users who actually root and thus use unlocked bootloaders (which was your original argument). Unless you're making the case that everyone that keeps the phone is going to use the unlocked bootloaders and such, one really doesn't have much to do with the other.

 

[KillbertArenas]

Still posting from my Note 7



If it dies - it dies......

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Still posting from my Note 7



If it dies - it dies......

Breh I make sure all my posts in this thread are from my Note...

 

[Optimus Prime]

All these companies care about is profit margins...They don't care about your safety...Pissing off consumers effects profit margins in a negative way just like bad publicity does...This phone has already cost Samsung billions, deading the phone will stop the bad publicity but won't stop pissed off consumers from running to the competition thus the money hemorrhaging continues...

If I want to keep my phone and assume the risk it might go jihad that's my problem not Samsungs...like I said they could easily set a cutoff date for full reimbursement/exchange and then issue a firmware update for the bootloader...that way they wash their hands clean of liability after that cutoff and somewhat save face with their user base by unlocking the bootloader so the phone is still usable for those that chose to keep it...

I think Samsung is still liable in this scenario. If my car burns up because its parked next to yours with a charging S7 that explodes, I'm suing you and Samsung because Samsung released a firmware update to allow you to keep using it.

 

[invincible1914]

Seemed like sabotage..Samsung is just too elite to let this get this far coming out of production.

The timing on this is so perfect. I'm narrowing the culprit down to either Apple, Google, HTC, or LG

It probably was scrub ass LG though

 

[NoMorePie]

Just ordered the S7 with a Spigen case.

Still hoping I can keep at least 1 of my Note 7s. Most likely i'll have to return my new one since they're still expecting me to return my old one to some next recycling plant.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

I think Samsung is still liable in this scenario. If my car burns up because its parked next to yours with a charging S7 that explodes, I'm suing you and Samsung because Samsung released a firmware update to allow you to keep using it.

You can still use the phone with the bootloader locked (It's locked on all carrier phones)...A firmware update to unlock the bootloader is for allowing community created roms to be flashed...Regardless the phone will always be usable unless the carriers decide to block Note7 IMEI's...

 

[invincible1914]

Yo, those fukkers let me go because they hired too many reps at the store. They went all the way back 5 months and when I gave 25% off some cases and screen protectors to close a sell as an excuse.


Best thing to ever happen.

Working retail gets old as fukk. I make more money (or the same depending on commision) working from as the IT tech administrator for a counseling provider service. Weekends off!

 

[Golayitdown]

The timing on this is so perfect. I'm narrowing the culprit down to either Apple, Google, HTC, or LG

It probably was scrub ass LG though

LG old shady ass always fukking shyt up

 

[NoMorePie]

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Did you even care to Google?

iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program - Apple Support

iPhone 5 went through a brief recall for people that had a crappy battery experience

iPod nano Replacement Program - Apple Support

Ipod Nano went through a recall because of a safety risk for its battery, may overheat

ipod nano may overheat.... for ones sold in a 3 month span in 2005

iphone 5 battery might run out faster than normal




yes these are definitely on the same scale in their 15 years of product



like i said... the COMPARABLE one would have been the chargers when they had to replace ALL CHARGERS... the ones you named are in no way comparable to phones catching on fire, risking people's lives, not being allowed on planes and canceling the current phone forever, 2-3 months after worldwide release